Found History

by Tom Scheinfeldt

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Entries Tagged as 'Visualizations'

Amateur Historical Archaeology with Google Maps

May 19th, 2006 · No Comments

He doesn’t call it historical archaeology, and there’s nothing to suggest he thinks of it that way, but that’s definitely what Michal Migurski’s “scar tissue” is. It’s also a very cool example of how web technology is democratizing history, helping ordinary people do some serious work.

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Tags: Google · Visualizations

Calendars as Timelines

May 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Jeremy had a post yesterday about the buzz over timelines at CHNM. For the last year or so, we have been talking a lot about timelines, all of us coming to the topic at slightly different angles. Jeremy, for instance, is especially interested in the user interface challenges that online timelines present, and he’s toying [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Favorites · Timelines · Visualizations