Found History

by Tom Scheinfeldt

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Entries from September 2008

Found History’s new imagery

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

I suspect most of you read this blog in syndication via its RSS feed, but those of you who visit the website will have noticed that I changed Found History‘s header imagery last week. As before, and in keeping with Found History‘s origins as a tribute to popular historymaking, the images are taken from a [...]

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Missouri Journalism Launches Pictures of the Year Archive with Omeka

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri School of Journalism launched the Pictures of the Year International Archive over the weekend using CHNM’s Omeka web publishing software. The Archive, which contains nearly 40,000 historic photographs arranged by collection, chronicles more than fifty years of journalism history, including striking images of the fall of [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Public History

Omeka 0.10 alpha now available

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Congratulations to the Omeka dev team (especially Jeremy Boggs, Kris Kelly, Dave Lester, and Jim Safley), which today announced the release of version 0.10 alpha, the first major release of Omeka since February’s 0.9.0. For those of you who don’t know about Omeka, it is CHNM‘s next generation web publishing platform for collections-based research, one [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Tools

New Opportunities at CHNM

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s hiring time again at CHNM. This time we’re looking for people with web programming and multimedia experience. As reported earlier, we’re also hiring a tenure-track digital historian. We’ll be announcing additional openings in the next several weeks, so stay tuned. Web Developers The Center for History and New Media is seeking one or more [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities

Digital Dialogues at MITH

September 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Our friends at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) continue to do great things. This fall’s series of lunch-time “digital dialogues” with leaders in the field looks like a winner … and not simply because I’m on the program Here’s the schedule: 9/9 Doug Reside (MITH and Theatre), “The MITHological AXE: Multimedia [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities