In light of our upcoming project, we were invited to watch several videos of students who had previously taken this class as they introduced the…
Category: Reviews
Exploring Your Landscape with Digital Public History
Today I explored Old Town Fairfax in Fairfax, VA with Clio (http://www.theclio.com) via a mobile browser (Safari) on my iPhone. I previewed the website on…
Bon Appetit! Julia Child’s Kitchen: Reviewing and Comparing Physical and Digital Exhibits
This past fall, I visited the Smithsonian National Museum of American History for the first time since I was a child. As a person who…
Analyzing Digital Public History
The 1990s saw the advent of the internet and with it, the first projects in digital public history. Many of these first projects were largely…
What Can You Do With Crowdsourced Digitalization?
As mentioned in a previous post, crowdsourcing is basically the idea that the general public can create or edit contents online. Crowdsourcing has been put…
Metadata Review
Smithsonian Institution Collection Search Center http://collections.si.edu/search/ The metadata provided by this site is highly detailed. For example, in looking at a certified proof of a $5…
Database Review
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/ Overview The site, created by the Michigan State University Library, provide access to full-text searchable versions of…
