Field Notes as a Web Site (fwd abs)

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Field Methods, Vol. 16, No. 2, 203-214 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X03262664
© 2004 SAGE Publications

Field Notes as a Web Site: Integrating Multimedia into Anthropological
Documents

Gareth Barkin
Washington University

Glenn Davis Stone
Washington University

Anthropologists are increasingly returning from the field with digital
images and other media, along with their field notes. This article lays
out the "Web site model" for integrating digital images, audio, and
other media files into unified field note documents through the use of
a Web page editor. It explains how to generate multimedia galleries and
link them within textual documents, to help restore the intuitive
relationships between image, sound, and word that earlier technological
limitations dissolved. This allows the ethnographer to review
descriptions of particular events, interviews, or periods of
participant observation with all the available forms of recording, as
part of a single text, rather than artificially separating out the
review process by medium.


Key Words: field notes • multimedia • digital imaging • Web site •
database