Tom Scheinfeldt at Foundhistory.org wrote a post yesterday about the ways that Twitter is helping CHNM promote Omeka and create communities of practice for this new platform. In Tom’s post, he called my attention to an excellent post on the uses of Twitter in teaching. I’m not a Twitter user, largely because I already get…
Open Access Scholarship
In the latest episode of our Digital Campus podcast, Tom, Dan, and I discuss what print on demand and public access publishing means for the future of academic publishing. Prior to our recording session, Dan interviewed Yakov Shafranovich, the creator of PublicDomainReprints.org a website that allows users to create printed versions of books scanned in…
Taking the History of Digital Media Seriously
Several years ago, our late colleague Roy Rosenzweig wrote a very important article for the American Historical Review on what is happening and what may happen to the digital record of our days. In his direct and clear way, Roy called on governments, historians, archivists, and others to take seriously the notion that we have…
Omeka is Ready For You
Those of us here at the Center for History and New Media and our partners at the Minnesota Historical Society are excited to announce the release of the public beta version of Omeka, a free and open-source software platform that provides museums, historical societies, libraries, and individuals with an easy-to-use platform for publishing collections and…