kkuehling – THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:48:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Increasing Public Participation and Collaboration http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/13/increasing-public-participation-and-collaboration/ http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/13/increasing-public-participation-and-collaboration/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:34:20 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=473

The Ohio Historical Society, in collaboration with the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at the Cleveland State University Department of History, recently launched a website, www.ohiocivilwar150.org, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The website serves as a hub for Ohio communities to promote their commemorative events and share their knowledge of Civil War topics. We have a timeline, calendar, discussion forum, teaching resources and we are continuing to add collections items and Omeka exhibits.

One of the challenges we’ve run into is increasing public discussions and comments on our site. We also want to make the website a platform for new ideas and research by continually garnering public scholarship in the form of short essays and articles. I’m glad to see that people will be sharing ideas about working with local communities and/or students to produce digital projects.

I look forward to learning more about current digital humanities projects and discussing ways to increase participation and collaboration.

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