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The course blog for History in the Digital Age a course at American University. One of the explicit goals of this course is for us to develop as communicators on the public web. So please do join our conversation, but please do so respectfully. We are all learning how to do this together.Categories
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- Designing Digital Projects (4)
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- Project Proposals (25)
- Projects (49)
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Recent Comments
- Kyle Horst on Digital Project Reflection
- Colin Musselman on Shaping the Nation: Project Launch
- Colin Musselman on Final reflections
- Colin Musselman on Final Digital Project – Historypin & the Silver Spring Historical Society
- Colin Musselman on Remembering Rebecca: A New Way to Engage with Historic Houses
- Colin Musselman on Reflection on History as Told by the Internet Project
- Colin Musselman on Project Reflection: Culture at Home
- MadelineDC on Digital Project Proposal
- historyfan29 on Show and Tell: Take a Virtual Dive on the Titanic
- Angela Modany on Final Digital Project – Historypin & the Silver Spring Historical Society
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Recent Posts
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- Introduction to WordPress
- Project Statement – Colin
- Reflection Post
- Show and Tell: Take a Virtual Dive on the Titanic
- Show & Tell: PBS’ The Video Game Revolution
- Shaping the Nation: Open Source
- Project Reflection: Culture at Home
- Bridget Sullivan Final Digital Project
- Menokin Adventurer: Final Thoughts
- Reflection on History as Told by the Internet Project
- Remembering Rebecca: A New Way to Engage with Historic Houses
- Final Project Reflections
- Final Digital Project – Historypin & the Silver Spring Historical Society
- Digital Project Reflection “Music & YouTube”
- Final Reflection
- Final Project and Reflection
- From the Telegraph to the Internet: Project Reflection
- Final reflections
- Show and Tell: Hans Rosling’s Amazing Grraphs
- Project Reflections
- Bay of Pigs Project Summary
- Bridget Sullivan Final Reflection: Abolition Adventure!
- Reflections on “Maroons of North America Viewshare”
- Shaping the Nation: Project Launch
- S&T Visualizing History: Some Examples and Some Thoughts
- Final Reflection
- Final Reflection
- Final Thoughts…
- Final Reflection Post
- Show & Tell – Google Cultural Institute
- Project Draft: History as Told by the Internet
- Show and Tell: Games on the History Channel
- Show and Tell: Gaming the Past
- Show and Tell: Citizen Archivist Dashboard
- Show and Tell
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Category Archives: Digital Preservation
Final Thoughts…
For my final project, I researched and wrote a paper surveying the landscape of how archiving is being practiced online in light of our increasing dependence on born-digital cultural production. By exploring the full range of search engine results for … Continue reading
National Archives, The Digital Vaults
The National Archives is probably the most well-known archive in the United States. However, most people only ever see its most famous documents on display, The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. While these are the … Continue reading
Digitization, Digital Preservation, and File Formats
So I successfully scared everyone off from blogging about the The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. If you get a bit lost in this reading I suggest reading over mwest24′s post on it … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Preservation, Digitization, Uncategorized
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Born-Digital: The September 11 Digital Archive
A collaboration between the American Social History Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Rosenzweig’s Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the September 11 … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Site Review
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9/11 Archive
All of us here at AU and in this class were alive on September 11, 2001. Not only that, we all have direct firsthand knowledge of the event, whether we lost loved ones or just remember hearing about it on … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Preservation
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Digitization 101
“The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a US-based coalition of some 100 organizations and institutions from across the cultural sector: museums, libraries, archives, scholarly societies, arts groups, IT support units and others. It was founded in … Continue reading
The Ugly Truth About Preservation
Is Bert Evil? And, Should We Care? There once was a website called Bert Is Evil. It no longer exists. Is it important that it no longer exists? Perhaps it becomes important when we realize that it disappeared after September … Continue reading