Category: History
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Spring 2017 Digital Project Review No.4: Jamie Goodall’s review of “Click! The Ongoing Feminist Revolution”
Click! The Ongoing Feminist Revolution Created and maintained by Clio Visualizing History. Produced and edited by Lola Van Wagenen, Susan Ware, Melanie Gustafson, Marilyn Blackwell, Amy Feely Morsman, Art Bell, Paul Hansen, Kris Surette, and Bob Selby. https://www.cliohistory.org/click/ Reviewed October 12-21, 2016. Jamie Goodall, Stevenson University Click! The Ongoing Feminist Revolution derives its clever name from […]
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Spring 2017 Digital Project Review No.2: Elizabeth Tammaro review of “Histography”
Histography Created and maintained by Matan Stauber. http://histography.io/. Reviewed Nov. 2016. Elizabeth Tammaro, Graduate Student at the University of Central Florida Histography is one of many digital design projects to come out of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem under the guidance of Ronel Mor, founder and CEO of design collaboration site […]
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Voyant and Race: Comparing HRC and Jesse Williams
I compared and uploaded two speeches on race in the United States by Hillary Clinton and Jesse Williams. Hillary Clinton spoke in the aftermath of police killings of black people at the Old State House in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln gave his historic speech 160 years ago. Jesse Williams delivered his speech at […]
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Catherine of Siena’s Network #NYCDHweek17
Here are my remarks from the NYCDH Week Kickoff Gathering at the Graduate Center, CUNY on February 6, 2017. Slide deck Project website — caterina.io Born in 1347, the year before the plague ravaged her hometown, Catherine of Siena would become a prolific writer to deliver her activist spirituality throughout 14th-century Europe. Choosing a religious life […]
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Crowdsourcing – the Not So Stupid Bot
The digital activism project that I recently contributed to through crowdsourcing was Stupid Robot by Metadata Games. Metadata Games emerged out of the Dartmouth College based game research laboratory Tiltfactor, whose chief objective is to design games for social impact and learning. Today, Metadata Games is the National Standard open source crowdsourcing game platform, comprised […]
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Digital Archive over Standard Library
Libraries provide great sources of information through the articles, records, and books that they contain. These items are all physical and are finite within a library’s complex. The problem with this is that there is a limitation placed on all of the readers who would like access to these sources at the same time. Most […]
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Databases and Digital Archives
Archivist Kate Theimer, in her essay “Archives in Context and as Context,” raises an interesting point about the relationship between a database and a digital archive. She argues that the term “archive” is a double entendre. Information technologists use “archive” to describe back up data; digital humanists use “archive” to describe collections of data. But […]
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UX1 Francesca Annunziata GEMA
Welcome to America! The famous American dream came true. After a long flight, i arrived in Philadelphia. It was exciting to see a city in the American style with many skyscrapers and many lights. One of the most beautiful things of USA are the americans because are the most hospitable people I’ve ever met. When […]
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Importance of markup Languages. How to use
People are excited by reading attractive parts of a book or an article. Some pieces might be very important. Some articles are too long or not easy to understand all pieces firstly. Most of the time it is not necessary to read entire a blog or a document. We markup some elements which they are more […]
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Encoding Emily Dickinson
A piece of writing that I think is important is Emily Dickinson’s “fascicles,” a term used by her editor Mabel Loomis Todd to describe her 40, hand-sewn booklets of poetry. If I were to encode the 800+ poems that comprise the “fascicles,” I would begin by marking up the stanzas and lines, as well as the marginalia. What […]