A Systematic Approach to Collecting Student Work

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-02-16

Summary:

Abstract:  Digital technology has profoundly changed design education over the past couple of decades. The digital design process generates design solutions from many different angles and points of views, captured and expressed in many file formats and file types. In this environment of ubiquitous digital files, what are effective ways for a design school to capture a snapshot of the work created within their school, and to create a long-term collection of student files for purposes of research and promotion, and for preserving the history of the school?

This paper describes the recent efforts of the Harvard Graduate School of Design in creating a scalable and long-term data management solution for digital student work files. The first part describes the context and history of student work at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The second section of the paper focuses on the functionality of the tool we created, and lastly, the paper looks at the library’s current efforts for the long-term archiving of the collected student files in Harvard’s digital repository.

Link:

https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14277

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oa.harvard.u hu.oa oa.students oa.green oa.arts oa.humanities oa.case oa.case.repositories oa.new oa.repositories oa.ssh

Date tagged:

02/16/2019, 12:03

Date published:

02/16/2019, 07:03