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Project Description

This project will pursue funding to create an online, digital archive from the 150 years worth of material in the archives at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind. The resulting web site will be built using Omeka for a stand-alone digital archive, but the digitized material will also be offered to the South Carolina Digital Library Project. Making this material available to researchers worldwide will contribute significantly to the study of the history of pedagogy and disability.

However, in addition to the task of digitizing the material (which we don’t anticipate will present significant challenges), we would like to investigate and further develop best practices for accessibility in the design of digital archives of this kind (which we anticipate will).

Visually-impaired end users take advantage of digital technologies for “accessibility” that (with their oral/aural and tactile interfaces) are fascinatingly different than the standard monitor-keyboard-mouse combination, forcing us to rethink our embodied relationship to data.

Furthermore, opening up the field of digital humanities to the issues associated with disability studies makes an even broader range of funding sources available.

Team

George H. Williams is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate. His research and teaching interests include eighteenth-century studies, disability studies, book history, and the digital humanities.

In addition to writing his blog WorkBook, George serves as managing editor of Teaching Carnival, is working to launch EighteenthCentury.org, and is an occasional contributor to The Long 18th.

Other places you can find him include Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, and Zotero.org.

Cory Bohon is a student at the University of South Carolina Upstate. In the past, Cory has developed such Mac software as Dockables (available at http://getdockables.com), which has had well over 500,000 downloads. Other projects include Microtec Web Design and CocoaApp.

Whilst you can find Cory writing on this personal blog, he also writes for Mac|Life’s website. In the past has also written for TUAW, Macworld, and Mac|Life as a part of their iPhone Handbook (a one-off quarterly issue of the magazine devoted to the iPhone). You can find other publications by Cory on the publications section of his website.

Cory is currently a student in South Carolina. He is attending the University of South Carolina Upstate where he is majoring in Computer Information Systems (CIS) with an emphasis on application development and network security. Upon graduating, he hopes to go into the IT or application development field.