Digital Archive Project

1. Discuss your development of an archival literacy.  I'm honestly not sure how this has helped my archival literacy...once I get more distance from the project I'm sure something will reveal itself, but at the moment we're still dealing with last minute issues with the programs/tweaking the project and making adjustments - so I'm still in a state of mild frustration. 
2. How did your group construct meaning from the archive through your webtext? We wanted to focus on something other than This House of Sky, which we figured has been in the spotlight the most. The photo collection, initially disconcerting to me, proved to be an interesting topic when linking it with storymaps. We focused on Doig's images from Scotland and it was interesting to see the links between where he traveled, how much research he did for one book that featured Scotland.
3. How did using new technologies (i.e., the Doig Digital Archive, the finding aid, StoryMaps, etc) shape your research experience and composing process? To be perfectly frank, the process was a pain in the neck. Story Maps is not particularly intuitive, so for a tech-challenged person this was a struggle. We were limited by what we knew about the site and what the sites would allow us to do. There were also some things about the archive that were not straightforward - rather than going from point A to B, you had to go from A to C then F, E and back around to B.
4. To what degree did you and your group take advantage of our librarian partners' expertise with the collection or with technology? How did it go? We used the HTML code to upload our chosen info into StoryMaps - again, not a wildly intuitive program for people who don't code. Lots of trial and error and some limitations as far as amounts of photos we could upload. Overall it was a sharp learning curve for me - a non techie person. Challenge is always good is some facet though and this was definitely one!