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1 Introduction and research overview “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin | English Naturalist and Geologist (1809 – 1882) The world is changing: Digital…

Using the Ancient Petitions (SC8) a collection of documents housed in the UK National Archives (TNA) as the case study, this dissertation proposes an open-access Resource Description Framework (RDF) structured by integrating a hybrid of traditional analytic descriptions from cod…

The American architect, Nicolas Negroponte, known for his work on the shift between the physical and digital states of value, critiques modern society’s means of consumption within the digital economy. He states that “the change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable,…

Statement of Problem or Issue: The Wilcox Museum at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas is in need of digitizing and organizing all of their paperwork from 1888 to current (2021).A majority of their documentation has begun to fade with time and they risk losing the hist…

The goal of this paper is to explore a collection, the Martin Site Collection, and determine how to find relevancy and meaning in a collection that has not been utilized in several years. By looking at this collection as well as others, we get a sense of what is being done to ma…