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Category Archives: General
Software for Digital Collections Strengths and Weaknesses
Here is the link to the Google Doc Trevor set up to catalog strengths and weaknesses of various software packages for digital collections.
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2nd workshop idea: Constructing a WordPress site
In my first post about a series of 10-minute tutorials, some people commented that they would like a separate workshop on starting & constructing your own website. This workshop will feature WordPress tools because they are some of the most … Continue reading
Categories: Blogging, Digital Literacy, General, Open Access, Session Proposals, Workshops
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Session Idea -ThinkUp: Archiving and Analyzing the Value of Social Media
I am really curious about ThinkUp which is a relatively new open-source application that archives and analyzes data from social media sites such as facebook, twitter, google+, etc.. The implications of an app that can organize this information (tweets, retweets, … Continue reading
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Intergenerational media
I work with many older immigrants and newer refugees, and I’m interested especially in exploring ways to design digital experiences in a way that welcomes people across generations, technical skills and levels of technical access. (This is not to say … Continue reading
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Digital History Pedagogy
Because this got buried in my other comment, I am posting it separately here. I would love to talk about what and how we should teach our students about digital archives. I launched a session in my history methods class … Continue reading
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large scale digital projects
Greetings! I am interested in the issues involved in managing large scale digital projects (such as the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, which I am co-editor of). Questions that have my attention today include: how much technical knowledge do I need to … Continue reading
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Gaining Control of Media Assets
I see a lot of overlap with many of the topics already posted here. For me, the question of how to manage and what to do with digital assets in collections is huge. My interests are in how digital media … Continue reading
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Tags: asset management, digital media, mapping digital collections, socialmedia, taxonomies
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Software for Online Collections: Which Tools for What Purposes?
There a lot of different tools at this point that serve a range of different purposes for organizing, storing, preserving, presenting, exhibiting digital collections. My quick initial list would include, DSpace, Omeka, Greenstone, ContentDM and Viewshare. I would likely also … Continue reading
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“Making” New Public History Jobs in the DH
In the most recent issue of The Public Historian, editor Randolph Bergstrom writes: “As part of placing historians in public, the profession, and each of its members, must push the public to create and sustain the places for history’s practice…Graduate … Continue reading
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Tags: curriculum, DH, education, job market, public history
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QR Codes as Historical Markers
Are QR Codes the historical markers of the future and has the future already arrived? My proposal involves the creation and use of QR Codes to enable visitors at an historical site or museum to easily access an on-line historical … Continue reading
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