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I have finally uploaded a bunch a stuff to my collection on Omeka. Most of the items that I have added concern the Civil War monument in Derby, Vermont. The items that I uploaded are mostly pictures, except for two newspaper articles. Throughout the next few days, I hope to add more items concerning other monuments. In addition, I need to scan some newspaper articles and pictures. I’m encountering some issues with outdated technology since many of my pictures are on my old digital camera that i received in 2005. The memory card from that camera does not fit into the card reader on my new computer and I cannot find a USB cord that fits into my old camera. My plan to deal with this dilemma is to go to a photo printer at a store and print the pictures out and then scan them into my computer. Hopefully this process will work. These issues that I have encountered made me think about how technology becomes outdated so quickly. How can historians successfully do history using digital techniques when technologies become incompatible? It seems like this is a major issues within digital history that is very difficult to address. How can historians develop digital history methods that do not rely on specific hardware? Is this even possible?
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