- I'm a digital archivist at the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress and a doctoral candidate at GMU. I'm interested in online communities, digital history, and video games. I blog on this site, and at playthepast.org. Views expressed are not those of any current, former or future employer.
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My Recent LoC.gov posts- Hydra’s Open Source Approach: An Interview with Tom Cramer May 13, 2013
- Historicizing the Digital for Digital Preservation Education: An Interview with Alison Langmead and Brian Beaton May 6, 2013
- Understanding User Generated Tags for Digital Collections: An Interview with Jennifer Golbeck May 1, 2013
- Born Digital Archival Materials at NYPL: An Interview with Donald Mennerich April 22, 2013
- Challenges in the Curation of Time Based Media Art: An Interview with Michael Mansfield April 9, 2013
- Nominations Now Open for the 2013 NDSA Innovation Awards April 4, 2013
- The Metadata Games Crowdsourcing Toolset for Libraries & Archives: An Interview with Mary Flanagan April 3, 2013
- Quest for the Critical E-dition: An interview with Leonardo Flores March 20, 2013
- Islandora’s Open Source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott March 4, 2013
- Born Digital Folklore and the Vernacular Web: An Interview with Robert Glenn Howard February 22, 2013
My Recent Play the Past Posts- The Future of the Civil War through Gaming: Morgan’s Raid Video Game February 7, 2013
- It’s All About Meaningful Decisions: Game Design Toward Nuanced Historical Interpretation and Complexity February 5, 2013
- What Does Simony Say? An Interview with Ian Bogost December 13, 2012
- The New Science: Playing the Scientific Revolution September 27, 2012
- “No no no, that’s not the way it happened. Shall I start again?” July 24, 2012
- Playing at Slavery: Modding Colonization for Authenticity May 24, 2012
- Jamestown Adventure: Less is More May 15, 2012
- Guns, Germs, and Horses: Cultural Exchange in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 13, 2012
- if (!isNative()){return false;}: De-People-ing Native Peoples in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 1, 2012
- Playing with World Religion: What Religion Means in Civ IV February 16, 2012
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- Doing History in Public | Nursing Clio on The digital humanities as the DIY humanities
- Kezra Cornell on User Stories as a Genre of Digital Humanities Scholarship
- Einstein | History and New Media on Tripadvisor rates Einstein
- Moops | *just footnote it on Tripadvisor rates Einstein
- Defining and Using Data | Digital Ramblings: Historical Edition on Tripadvisor rates Einstein
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- "Reason: freedom does not exist" http://t.co/HRrpG3ErjX a bold claim about the world for an error message about 19 hours ago from TweetDeck ReplyRetweetFavorite
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Marie Curie on Ada Lovelace Day
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. From their website, ‘Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognized. We want you to tell the … Continue reading
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Sitemaps and Wireframes: Playing History
Tonight in my Creating History with New Media class were workshoping our sitemaps and wireframes. I worked these up a few weeks ago, before we started building the live site, so some of this has already changed, but it is … Continue reading
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Omeka Not Just For Exhibits: Using Omeka To Build A Colaborative Directory
While Omeka is billed as a CMS for exhibiting cultural heritage projects it’s also a awesome platform for publishing collections of all sorts of stuff with rich metadata. Jim and I have been cracking away on our Playing History project … Continue reading
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Strategy and Scope: Readings In Digital Humanities Project Management
One of the first steps in constructing a digital humanities project is to define your strategy and project scope. This week in our creating history and new media class we had a great discussion about a topic most of the … Continue reading
Recap from first Triannual Zotero Trainers Workshop
Last week I had the pleasure of running the first in Zotero’s triannual (that’s three times a year) workshops for Zotero trainers (looking for a better name for “trainer”). I had a great time, and I think everyone left with … Continue reading
