Readings
- Roy Rosenzweig, “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” American Historical Review 108, 3 (June 2003): 735-762.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=6 - Tim Sherratt, “It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power and People,” Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 1, No. 1 (2011).
http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/its-all-about-the-stuff-by-tim-sherratt/
Activities
Morning (9-12)
- Please share your web domain and Twitter handle
- Survey major digital history-related collections
- Research, search, discovery, and saving sources found in major collections.
- teachinghistory.org
- Google Advanced Search: https://www.google.com/advanced_search
- Google Search Help: https://support.google.com/websearch/?hl=en#topic=3081620
- Digital Preservation (LC): http://digitalpreservation.gov/
- Format Recommendations: http://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/index.html
- StakeOverflow discussion of image file formats: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/419584/what-is-the-difference-between-jpg-jpeg-png-bmp-gif-tiff-i
- Hands-on Session: Install Zotero
- Zotero Screencast Tutorials: https://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials
- Zotero Installation Guide: https://www.zotero.org/support/installation
Afternoon (1-4)
- Hands-on Session: Reverse search with Tin Eye
- Hands-on Session: Scavenger Hunt for digital sources
- Hands-on Session: Intro to metadata:
Examine sources in different digital repositories, compare metadata, stability data, and ability to extract, save, and manipulate individual records: - Hands-on Session: Annotating sources with ThingLink.com
Our test page, http://history2014.doingdh.org/thinglink/
Homework
Spend 15-20 minutes reviewing the site assigned to you. No written review is required. Take a quick look at the guidelines for reviewing websites from JAH.
- History Explorer:, http://historyexplorer.si.edu/home/ (Young, Rymsza-Pawlowska)
- Mapping DuBois, http://www.mappingdubois.org/ (Rueber, Robertson)
- Photogrammar, http://photogrammar.yale.edu/ (Ring, Rees)
- Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/ (Murphy, Merithew)
- Railroads and the Making of Modern America, Will Thomas, http://railroads.unl.edu/ (Meringolo, Martinez)
- Transcribe Bentham, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project (Litwicki, Lintelman)
- National Parks: America’s Best Idea, http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/ (Levy, Lee)
- Cleveland Historical, CPDHC, http://clevelandhistorical.org/ (mobile web or app) (Kossie-Chernyshev, Howard)
- National Underground Railroad Museum exhibition app,
http://freedomcenter.org/exhibits/the-app (Dodd, Denson) - History in Pics, https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics (Davis, Cohen)
- Slate Vault, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault.html (Brock, Bond, Barnes)
Sites
- Arago, People, Postage, and the Post, http://arago.si.edu
- Emergence of Advertising in America: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/
- Smithsonian Collections, http://collections.si.edu/search/
- eBay, http://ebay.com/
Tools
- Zotero, http://zotero.org
- Tin Eye, http://tineye.com
- Thing Link, http://thinglink.com
Reference
- Dan Russell, “Digging in with Google,” http://dmrussell.net/presentations/IRE2013-Digging-into-Google.pdf
- Zotero Guide to Archival Research, http://guides.library.harvard.edu/zotero_archival_research
- Passwords Under Assault
- Mat Honan, “Kill the Password,” Wired (November 15, 2012).
- Digital Preservation Q&A
- SI List of Alternatives to Photoshop