Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, London (where I’m a research fellow, incidentally) points to Museums and the machine-processable web, a new wiki “for sharing, discussing, arguing over and hopefully coming to some common agreements on APIs and data schemas for museum collections.” Following closely on that, Tim Berners-Lee calls for “Raw [...]
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Briefly Noted: Universal Museum APIs; Raw Data Now!; Publish or Perish
March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Artifacts · Blogs · Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Education · Museums · Video
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 [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Humor · Libraries · Local History · Museums · Public History · Roy · Video
Briefly Noted for February 25, 2009
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Along with “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” “release early and often” is something of a mantra around CHNM, especially when it comes to software and web application development. For a variety of reasons, not least the invaluable testing and feedback projects get when they actually make it into the wild, CHNM has [...]
Tags: Blogs · Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Film · Management · Memory · Video
Briefly Noted for April 8, 2008
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Friend of CHNM, Stan Katz provides some perspective on The Emergence of the Digital Humanities in his excellent Chronicle of Higher Education “Brainstorm” column. Timelines.tv presents 1000 years of British history through a series of film clips organized along three parallel and interlinked timelines, one each for social, political, and national (English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish) [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · History of Technology · Timelines · Video
Briefly Noted for March 17, 2008
March 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The content is about the same, but The History Channel’s new design is a big step in the right direction (see the Internet Archive’s very slow loading capture from a year ago for comparison). Food Fight. A history of 20th century warfare, “told through the foods of the countries in conflict.” Delightfully (or maybe it’s [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Humor · Television · Video
Briefly Noted for March 14, 2008
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Finally! From our talented Polish colleagues at Historia i Media comes Feeds, a much needed new resource that uses Google Reader to aggregate and filter RSS streams from digital historians around the world. “One Feed to rule them all, One Feed to find them, One Feed to bring them all and in the darkness bind [...]
Tags: Blogs · Digital Humanities · Film · Sports · Tools · Video
THATPodcast Episode 2: Introducing Omeka
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Jeremy and Dave are at it again. This time on THATPodcast they give us a video introduction to Omeka. Sticking with their two-segment format, the first half of the show features a discussion (in part by me) of the aims and values that underlie Omeka. The second half features a very helpful step-by-step demonstration of [...]
Tags: Audio · Digital Humanities · Omeka · Podcasts · Tools · Video
Briefly Noted for February 22, 2008
February 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
(my) History of Technology by Verie Sandborg. A retiree’s recollections of a lifetime with personal technology. Roots Television. User-generated genealogy videos. Interesting, but too many ads. Technica. An archive of lego history, including early advertisements, a numbered set listing, and an extensive timeline.
Tags: Artifacts · Biography · Briefly Noted · Genealogy · History of Technology · Hobbies · Memory · Timelines · Video
THAT Podcast
January 25th, 2008 · No Comments
I just finished watching the inaugural episode of THAT Podcast (“The Humanities and Technology Podcast”), the new video podcast from CHNM creative lead, Jeremy Boggs and CHNM web developer, Dave Lester. Wow. Considering Jeremy and Dave’s technical chops, I wasn’t surprised at the excellent production values. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised at the [...]
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Briefly Noted for January 13, 2008
January 13th, 2008 · No Comments
New Stella Artois website uses brewer’s long history, period costumes to sell beer. See especially “L’Origine.” Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions. Learn when the taser, credit cards were first proposed as science fiction. The History of LOLCats from G4.
Tags: Briefly Noted · Food & Drink · History of Technology · Humor · Marketing · Science Fiction · Television · Timelines · Video

