{"id":643,"date":"2015-09-03T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2015-09-03T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:00:31","slug":"digital-storytelling-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/digital-storytelling\/digital-storytelling-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital storytelling: past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the last 15 years I\u2019ve been on this path: exploring the intersection of databases and narrative.<\/p>\n
Stories have always attracted me as the ideal form for understanding life, both present and the past. Perhaps more importantly, I have envisioned my future as a series of stories that I\u2019ve told myself. I\u2019m fascinated with how stories give us the capacity to reinvent ourselves. Stories, in the form of myths or religion (if you must), give structure and meaning to our lives.<\/p>\n
As a librarian, the foundation of my profession is built upon carefully organizing information to be used by others. That\u2019s a very valuable function within society, but it\u2019s not enough to satisfy my curiosity. In this digital era, the database is the access point for discrete chunks of content that can be queried and analyzed. Consequently, those parcels of information can be reshaped into stories.<\/p>\n