- 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.
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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.
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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
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
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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