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The ITHAKA S+R report “Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians” covers a lot of ground from a number of perspectives. For the most part, I think people who work in digital history and with libraries and archives will find little that is surprising here. As someone who comes to this conversation as a digital …
I shouldn’t be writing this. I should be commenting on student project proposals and working on an article that is three weeks overdue. And, that is exactly why I’m writing this. Recently at RRCHNM we’ve been having a lot of discussion about why some of us offer much less in the way of public commentary …
[Cross-posted from the Visualizing the Past blog for the NCPH2012 working group “Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections”] In the very useful survey of the “history web” in their 2005 book Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web , Dan …
Facing the close of the the first decade of the twenty-first century, those of us involved in higher education cannot help but admit that in some very important ways our system is broken. For students finishing graduate programs, the prospects of landing a traditional tenure-track position are slim (see the torrent of bad news from …
This is a revised and expanded version of a talk I gave at MITH’s Digital Dialogue series on April 14. It is Part III of III. Read Part I and Part II. III. Digital Public History and Knowledge Creation If we’re not doing enough to help the general audience learn about history, how can we …