The Lost Children of Denshō project was designed and executed specifically to synthesize existing research in the field regarding the World War II Japanese Incarceration camps in the United States and add to the research in the field while hopefully discovering new information. The project not only increased my own knowledge of what occurred in the Japanese Incarceration camps and what the ramifications of incarceration were for fully three generations of Japanese Americans, but more broadly in Digital Humanities allowed me to demonstrate how to assess and use technology in the field for meaningful research while uncovering a previously unseen error in the dataset. The project meets PLO2 in this regard, but also meets PLO4 in that several systems and technologies were assessed before selecting ArcGIS StoryMaps to present research completed on a large dataset. In this case, the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy standards #1 and #5 were met because new research was completed on the data that uncovered a previously unseen error in the original dataset, creating authority in context, and a conversation between researchers using the dataset was continued through new discoveries. ALA Ethics 2, 3, and 9 were used as the guiding principles for this project, in that controversial data was consulted, the privacy of individuals in the data set was maintained unless the information was already released, and bias in the information was confronted in an attempt to resolve inaccurate data specific to a single ethnic group.

The project may be found here: https://arcg.is/n5va4

or by clicking on the image to the left of this description.

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