Week 6: Digital Collections and Digital Preservation
This week’s readings focused on efforts to preserve and collect the past online, and assessments of those efforts. As the readings make clear, digitization of primary sources–and creation of new ones in the digital medium–has been one of the main ways that digital technology has affected history research. As Alison Babeu’s Rome Wasn’t Digitized in [...]
Draft: Project #1
See the attachment. Fellow students and Sharon: I’ve left the criteria in for now–hence why the narrative extends beyond six pages. I plan to remove for the final. Will look forward to your comments! NEH-ODH grant draft
The Deerfield Raid, in Multiple Forms
I looked forward to this week’s reading, about creating the website “Raid on Deerfield: the Many Stories of 1704,” because it connected the strands of my career to-date in academic, digital, and public history. When I took David Silverman’s Colonial North America seminar (syllabus in Microsoft Word format) in spring 2005, we read a scholarly [...]
Thinking about design… For those who haven’t needed to
This week’s readings for Clio I got into basic nuts and bolts of disseminating history on the Web, particularly planning and design of websites. For me, they were quite useful as I think about putting my own projects on the Web. Some of the design principles discussed in the readings were familiar to me from [...]
Diving into digital history
What is digital history, and how did it evolve? The readings for this week’s Clio Wired I addressed those issues in a broad way, providing a running start for the semester. Per the ethos of digital humanities, this week’s readings are available, ungated, to everyone–and also available in printed format. Susan Hockey’s “History of Humanities [...]
Welcome
Welcome to my site. This site belongs to David McKenzie, a public historian. I’ve begun it for Sharon Leon’s Clio Wired I course, part of the History Ph.D. program at George Mason University. However, I plan to write beyond what I’m doing for class. I will offer commentary (warranted or not, your choice) on a [...]