Version & File Histories

Revised In-Class Agenda

• Discuss assigned readings from Tuesday, available here.
• Work through remainder of Git & GitHub materials.
• Start the Introduction to File Formats & Text.

Additional Materials

• Weingart, Scott B. “The Route of a Text Message.” Vice, February 2019. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdn8n/the-route-of-a-text-message-a-love-story.

Additional Links

• Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think” and pdf version.
  • Example of a potential memex machine.
• The History of the Old Bailey Online Project https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/a-narrative-history-of-the-project#digitisation.
• HathiTrust Digital Library https://www.hathitrust.org/ and an issue of The Crisis https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924055965465&seq=1.
• The Art of Google Books by Krissy Wilson and The Darker Side of Digitization by Leah Henrickson.
• Scanning Labor Project by Eliie Colbert, Lucian Li, David Satten-Lopez, and Elizabeth Schwartz https://scanninglabor.github.io/IAScanningLabor/scanners.html.
• Breeding, Marshall. “History of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Library Technology Industry.” Library Technology Guides.http://librarytechnology.org/mergers/.