How do scholars, activists, tourists, neighbors, city planners, and preservationists find and share information about historic places in their communities, in their cities, and in their regions? How do they identify relationships between places or understand the context within such places were constructed, occupied, or even destroyed? In most cases, anyone interested in these questions […]
Posts Tagged ‘ history ’
Access
archives
brain dump
Center for Public History + Digital Humanities
civic engagement
civil and environmental engineering
Cleveland
Cleveland State University
collections
community
content management
Controlled vocabulary
digital assets
digital history
digital ownership
future of reading
gender studies
Geocities
geographic literacy
google
historic preservation
history
how-to
Indexing
Kindle
library science
Multi-media production
Nunn Center
Oberlin Heritage Center
Ohio
OHMS
Omeka
Oral History
public scholarship
Randforce
repurposing
Second Life
small museums
student projects
teaching
Teaching American History
Thesauri
undergraduate education
univesity
usability
Digital Resources Outside the System!
January 14, 2010
In my day job at the Ohio Historical Society I spend a lot of time working with online collections systems (primarily CONTENTdm). However, most of these systems come “pre-staged” with a particular look and feel and set of behaviors. These days, we want the ability to work with our digital treasures outside of their prefabricated […]
MacGyver-ing History: building online community history with only the tools available
January 14, 2010
I’d like to to talk about building an online local history collection of audio and video interviews, photos, written narratives, recipes, records, etc. What is doable when there’s lots of interest but no budget or time, tech resources and skills are limited, and people are geographically dispersed?
Museums Online (small museums that is)
December 21, 2009
Hello! I am the Museum Education and Tour Coordinator at the Oberlin Heritage Center. We are a small historical society / museum in Oberlin, OH and we just a launched a new website. I have three big questions I’ll be asking at THATcamp: 1. How can a small musuem/archive such as ours connect with educators […]