I still feel like I am behind in Digital Humanities, in part because I am still working on my website and portfolio and balancing that progress with my research on the Albuquerque Airport. It can be a bit overwhelming and time consuming, and considering the semester is very quickly coming to a close, it is no surprise that I feel this way. However, I finally seem to have made a breakthrough with my Albuquerque Airport research.
I found an oral history video of Harry Davidson as conducted by the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. Davidson is a local expert on airports in Albuquerque, and this video reflected that. While he does focus on all airports as opposed to just the Sunport and the fact that my initial question of "What does the Albuquerque Airport mean to people?" is still unanswered, I'm honestly very pleased with this progression. I think it will pair rather nicely with a page about the general history of the airport and at least gives some insight to why the airport is important.
Of course, I'm still struggling with finding good oral histories to use, so I am going to stick with collecting newspaper clippings that concerned the airport and putting them together on a webpage, most likely grouping them by theme, similar to Maggie, Candolin, and Kaveh's project, but with text as opposed to images. It can still be a tad interactive and tells personal stories as filtered through the newspapers at the time and at least attempts to find the local voice contained in oral histories.
So far, so good. I'll be working on that this weekend and also updating my website, working on my portfolio, and making my trailer as the weekend and week progresses.
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