Introduction to the Internet
Introduction to Digital History on the Web
- Archives
- (Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections) Library of Congress, American Memory, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
- (Particular Sources) Chronicling America, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/, Old Bailey Online, http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
- (Projects) Valley of the Shadow, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/
- (Collected) September 11 Digital Archive, http://911digitalarchive.org/, History Harvest, http://historyharvest.unl.edu/
- (Commercial) Proquest, Gale, Ancestry
- How – digitization, OCR, databases, copyright, servers, web
- Exhibits, scholarship, and essays (that is, secondary sources)
- Exhibits: The Raid on Deerfield, http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/home.do, Dick Dowling and Sabine Pass in History and Memory, http://exhibits.library.rice.edu/exhibits/show/dick-dowling
- Digital articles: The Differences Slavery Made, http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/AHR/, Mining & Mapping the Production of Space, http://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=93
- Visualizations: Visualizing Emancipation, http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/, Digital Harlem, http://digitalharlem.org, Mapping the Republic of Letters, http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/casestudies/index.html#filter
- How – archive, web, cms, GIS
- Teaching (directed at students and teachers):
- Scholarly Communication
- email –>listserv –>blog –>Twitter
- digitization –> commercial vs open access
Tools
DiRT Tools Wiki
- Content Management Systems
- Annotation
- Mapping – webGIS
- Network analysis
- Text mining and Topic Modelling
