- 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 student 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 or former employer.
My Recent LoC.gov posts- All Digital Objects are Born Digital Objects May 15, 2012
- Life-Saving: The National Software Reference Library May 4, 2012
- ArtBase and the Conservation and Exhibition of Born Digital Art: An Interview with Ben Fino-Radin May 1, 2012
- Better Know a Viewshare: Exploring Texas Funeral Records April 18, 2012
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Recent Comments
- A Reply | grokingfeminism on Another way to count the books
- What Is the “New Aesthetic”? « stunlaw on The New Aesthetic and the Artifactual Digital Object
- MUSEUMS IN SOCIAL MEDIA & THE WEB | Culture Victoria News on Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives Are Upside Down
- Matt Burton on The New Aesthetic and the Artifactual Digital Object
- The New Aesthetic and the Artifactual Digital Object | Trevor Owens on Deforming reality with Word Lens
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I blog because I want to. I don't get paid to do this. It isn't fancy like that. I am also not a particularly careful editor. I just wasn't wired that way. Every once and a while I get an email from someone who points out typos in my text. Sometimes they apologize for sending me those comments. I am always deeply grateful to them. If you see a typo, misspelling, or otherwise grammatically incorrect issue on my site and send me an email I will be thrilled. I will thank you. My email is trevor dot johnowens at gmail do com.Archives
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Category Archives: Digital Tools
Re-mixing The Tech Tree: Build Your Own History Of Science
A few weeks back Rob Macdougall posted a great essay about using the game Civilization’s approach to the history of science and technology as a point of entry into conversations about models for representing the history of science and technology … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tools, Education, Games, History
Tagged civilization, History of Science, mod, public understanding of science, science education, tech tree
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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
Visualization and History: Hint, It's Not About Pictures
If your into history and computers, and looking for a mildly trippy read, break open a bottle of wine and spend three of four hours reading through David Staley’s Computers Visualization and History. Staley’s central, somewhat provocative, contention is that … Continue reading
Posted in Clio2, Digital Tools, History
Tagged database, graphs, Maonvich, maps, Moretti, new media, Staley, swivel, trees, visualization, wordle
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Export from Zotero to Librarything or Goodreads
One of Zotero’s many virtues is that it is a really robust container for bibliographic data. If you want to spend a little time playing with the Citation Style Language that Zotero uses it is actually pretty easy to get … Continue reading
Making Book Labels With Zotero
To the left you can see a sample of some of my labeled books. It may not be particularly pretty, but those labels do exactly what I wan them to do. Display information, have only a limited chance to damage … Continue reading
Cataloging Our Library in Zotero
Before starting my home cataloging project I really only used Zotero to grab individual items, this was my first time trying to look-up large numbers of items at once. I am happy to report that I came up with a … Continue reading
Using Zotero as a Personal Library Catalog
My wife and I have a lot of books, tons of books. So many books that I am sometimes surprised to find books I didn’t even know we had. Over the years I have tried to organize them in ways … Continue reading
Free Omeka Theme
I am excited to unveil my first attempt at playing with CSS for Omeka themes. I have been meaning to get more practice with vaguely technical things and my first priority is getting better acquainted with our friend the cascading … Continue reading