Digitalizing History: Research and Exploration of History in a Evolving Field

Week Two: Artificial Intelligence and Implications for Digital History Within the past two decades, the complexity and ability presented to the academic and the rising scholar by the evolving capabilities of artificial intelligence starts a discussion on the appropriate nature in which chat algorithms and text generating programs find themselves in academia. This week I would like to take a look at the growing nature and usage of artificial intelligence in the world of digital history and how it has been discussed within the pursuit of the professionalization of history in  the digital realm.  What is AI capable of? Firstly, understanding the power and capabilities presented by text generating artificial intelligence is important as it defines the basis of our understanding of how the programming affects the digital history community on a larger scale. Wulf Kansteiner discussed deeply how historical theory is simply unsettled knowledge, with AI finding it's ow place and f...

 Hello everyone! My name is Carson Maschmeier and I'm a first semester graduate student, focusing on Public History. I have a few research interests and public history projects that I'm looking into working on including a civil war diary that has yet to be researched and explored. I spent a year working with the Veterans History Project under Dr. Gannon and Dr. French as a lead interviewer, sparking my great interest in veterans affairs and war history.  During my time in the Veterans History Project, I was able to work closely with veterans and learn how to compose storyboards and begin working with mapping technologies. These tools were crucial to my work, as the interview was only one step in the direction of historical preservation. Taking the information I learnt in the interview and digitalizing it made me realize how special history can be once it's given a visual perspective and guide, placing emphasis on history as a living, breathing subject. That being said, I...