According to Technorati, this is a visual representation of my blogging tags as of January 31. At first I found these “tag clouds” difficult to make sense of, but the more I’ve worked with them, the easier they are for me to read and use. For more on the new ways that digital media are…
The Geography of Aryanization
This past week I found an interesting application of GIS technology to the history of the Holocaust in Austria. The website NS-Crimes in Vienna offers visitors a large database of information on Jewish families evicted from their apartments in Vienna in 1938-1939. The database includes information on each evictee, including such things as date of…
Off the Desktop
Environmental historian William J. Turkel of the University of Western Ontario offers those interested in GIS and history a place to start their thinking on the subject. His website on Place-Based Computing includes a number of useful resources, but perhaps the best is a series of slides he presents from a talk given last year…
Best Practices?
I’ve just returned for a two-day meeting where groups of scholars tried to determine what might constitute “best practices” in introductory undergraduate courses in several disciplines. Three of the six groups in attendance were historians (US, European, World) and it was very interesting to watch the way the three groups approached their charge. Each group…