In week 5 of DHM, we discussed how maps are an extremely valuable tool for digital humanists to use in order to visualize the physical and digital content we are given. In week 6, we began to put the items we were documenting in Omeka onto maps of our own to see where the owners of the scrapbooks have gone during certain periods of their lives. I found this particularly interesting because before doing this we were just looking at random items that have been scrapbooked. Now, we able to see when and where these people found these items and what they may have been up to. For example, on one of my pages of the scrapbook, Beryl Foster pasted a program from the National Championship Motorcycle Races at Atlantic City Speedway. This showed me that Beryl went to Atlantic City for a visit to the Speedway to watch professional motorcycle racing. I thought that this was cool because it had to with something outside of the West Chester campus. I believe that this is just the surface of our capabilities with the digital humanities.
