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Please Write it Down: Design and Research in the Digital Humanities

As Theory Fight 2011 rages on among the DH twitter folk I feel compelled to interject in something that is more than 140 characters. Which brings me here. Last night Tom Scheinfeldt provocatively suggested, DH arguments are encoded in code. I disagree … Continue reading

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Finding Scholarship and Scholarship Finding Us

Melissa Terras has a great post up about what happens when you tweet an open access paper. Seriously, go read it. The details are interesting, but the main point is that 535 people who wouldn’t have seen her paper at least … Continue reading

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How Technical To Get When Teaching Digital History

This is the second in multi post series reflecting on the digital history course I taught this Semester at American University. For more on this you can read initial post about the course, the course syllabus and my first post … Continue reading

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they rebuilt emiglio

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. Includes CC licensed images: aquila, M. (2007). Emiglio. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibcbulk/387273768/ Gratton, A. (2010a). IMG_1929. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusgr/4570533014/ Gratton, A. (2010b). IMG_1944. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusgr/4570516362/ Gratton, A. (2010c). IMG_1925. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusgr/4570534618/ robotoy75. … Continue reading

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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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Working With Colors And Style For playinghistory.org

I realize I am getting a bit ahead of myself but I get excited about playing with the visual style of the project. Which do you think are the best? Or should I just scrap it and do something completely … Continue reading

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Another day, Another blog,

File this under shameless plug. My fiance and I, in part inspired by this course have started a new blog. Posts at Firstpast.org, will explore the history of children’s non-fiction literature. You can see the first few posts. The first … Continue reading

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If They Use It, They Will Fund: Life Cycle for Expert Search Portals

There is no way around it, it will take substantial effort to keep Playing History viable for the future. This is a common feature for expert search style tools. The good news is that all sorts of groups already do … Continue reading

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