(PS on this one. Links to follow over the conference…) Mobile matters. Mobile internet users will exceed desktop internet users soon, and by 2016 as many as 80% of all internet users will do so from mobile devices. Internet dat calls are … Continue reading
I love Joan’s post, because it gets at many issues I have been working through both professionally with the Omeka project and also through my own research that relies on access to cultural heritage collections for analysis. During the WebWise … Continue reading
Last fall I suggested that I would investigate how well digital cultural heritage collections were being utilized by researchers. Turns out this was harder than I expected. But from my very initial research it seems that scholarly writing does not … Continue reading
The oxymoron embedded in the title reveals the contradiction behind any attempt to “visualize” oral history for historical curation. One could argue that oral history, and sound, more broadly, are such fundamentally aural experiences that they can’t be visualized at … Continue reading
The “AHA Today” blog post today might be of interest to my colleagues here. It highlights the relevance and importance of historical thinking in regard to the rise of digital means of handling and visualizing historical data and information (including … Continue reading
I apologize for being later than my official “sign-up” week in posting a full entry to the blog. It seems that my whole life is running about a month behind right now. But on the positive front, this has given … Continue reading
The timeline paper posted on this blog a few weeks back is part of a longer paper I’m working on, “Interfaces to History.” Here’s an abstract: The organization and classification of artifacts, words, and images to tell stories is the … Continue reading
In a partnership between the libraries of Vanderbilt University and Middle Tennessee State University, my colleagues and I produced a website entitled Shades of Gray and Blue: Reflections of Life in Civil War Tennessee. [www.civilwarshades.org] The website was done in … Continue reading
Last fall I was awarded an internal grant to experiment with using an iPad in the classroom. For the most part, the iPad was superfluous. I was leading a graduate level seminar, and as a group we lacked the imagination … Continue reading
I have an idea for a project that I have been batting around for a few years, but so far have lacked the funding or institutional support to move forward with any great speed. The concept is simple: I would … Continue reading