The digital humanities are well represented this week at the National Council for Public History annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. By my count, fully nine of the approximately ninety sessions, workshops, working groups, and posters are either entirely or partially dedicated to the web and other digital outlets for public history. This equals the nine [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Public History'
Digital Humanities at NCPH
March 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Digital Humanities · Public History
Rosenzweig Forum Returns
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments
The Rosenzweig Forum for Digital Humanities returns this month with a program entitled “Negotiating the Cultural Turn(s): Subjectivity, Sustainability, and Authority in the Digital Humanities.” On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Murray Room of Lauinger Library at Georgetown University, Tim Powell and Bethany Nowviskie will address and open a [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Public History
Gearing up for NCPH
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments
The annual meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is only six weeks away, and CHNM will be there in force. On Thursday, March 11, we will be running a working group to help “Jump Start Your Digital Project in Public History.” On Saturday, March 13, we will be running a special [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Public History
Privatizing Holocaust History?
October 3rd, 2009 · 13 Comments
For the past few years, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has undertaken a series of public-private digitization partnerships, especially with a company called Footnote.com. These partnerships provide NARA with free digitization services, and visitors to NARA’s reading rooms with access to the products, but allow Footnote.com and NARA’s other private partners to charge [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Genealogy · Memory · Open Access · Public History · Twitter
The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Inspired in part by THATCamp, the Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good is now open for applications. Co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the Center for History and New Media, the Conscience Un-Conference is a free, one-day “un-conference” that intends to bring together interesting and interested people to talk about [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Museums · Public History · Twitter
Briefly Noted: Surviving the Downturn; Help with Creative Commons; Yahoo Pipes
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
The American Association of State and Local History (AASLH) provides cultural heritage professionals with some relevant information on surviving the economic downturn.
JISC provides advice on choosing (or not choosing) a Creative Commons license.
Missed it at the launch? Didn’t see the point? Don’t know where to start? Ars Technica has a nice reintroduction and tutorial for [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Local History · Management · Open Access · Public History · Timelines · Tools · Twitter · Visualizations · Yahoo!
Briefly Noted for March 9, 2009
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments
This year CHNM and the American Historical Association will be pleased to award the first Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History in memory of our late friend and inspiration, Roy Rosenzweig.
The American Association for State and Local History has launched a traveling exhibition directory for museums and other organizations looking to find and publicize [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Humor · Libraries · Local History · Museums · Public History · Roy · Video
Briefly Noted for February 10, 2009
February 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Jessica Pritchard of the American Historical Association blog reports on a panel at last month’s annual meeting that asked what it takes to be a public historian. Entitled “Perspectives on Public History: What Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences are Essential for the Public History Professional?” the panel was chaired by George Mason’s own Spencer Crew.
Going back [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Gaming · History of Technology · Libraries · Mozilla · Omeka · Podcasts · Public History
Tragedy at the Commons
December 22nd, 2008 · 12 Comments
Nat Torkington at the O’Reilly Radar blog has news this morning that George Oates, Senior Program Manager in charge of Flickr Commons and an original member of the Flickr design team, has been laid off by Flickr’s parent company Yahoo! As the person at Yahoo! responsible for bringing together the energy and cultural resources of [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Education · Google · Libraries · Management · Museums · Public History · Yahoo!
Briefly Noted for December 16, 2008
December 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Jeremy finishes up his great how-to series on design process in the digital humanities.
Congratulations to Mark Tebeau and his colleagues at Cleveland State’s Center for Public History and Digital Humanities on their very well designed new website. I especially like the “collaborate” tab in the main navigation.
Pastigo geolocates information about historical sites and provides historical [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Food & Drink · Local History · Public History · Tops of All Time

