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Project Highlights

Why Digital Technologies and Oral History Belong Together

Oral History in the Digital Age logo The Library of Congress through The Signal: Digital Preservation blog recently posted an article about Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. In the post, Boyd talks about using digital technology to collect, curate, distribute, and preserve oral histories. Boyd recently partnered with MATRIX on ...

Vietnam Project Archive Receives Attention from the Lansing State Journal

The Lansing State Journal recently posted an article entitled MSU, the CIA— and Vietnam. This article contains portions of interviews with the primary investigators for the MSU Group Vietnam Project Archive, a digital preservation and access collaboration between the University Archives & Historical Collections at MSU and MATRIX. This project, which has received significant NEH ...

Education

MATRIX researches and evaluates the effectiveness of current training methods and materials for online education and research. Much of its research focuses on developing and evaluating resources for end users. While delivering and enhancing the usability of digital objects is of critical importance, it is equally important to find ways to capacitate effectively teachers and cultural heritage workers.

The ongoing digital preservation of multimedia, online dissemination of cultural heritage and the explosive growth of online resources for humanities teaching and research has created a need for well-trained educators, cultural heritage workers, and community activists with a comfortable fluency in digital media. To this end, MATRIX has developed a number of [online courses], [projects], [workshops], and a [specialization] in cultural informatics to support teaching and research in a digital environment.