The largest penal system in human history–the Gulag–is fast disappearing from the physical landscape. Of all of the many camps that dotted the maps of the Soviet Union, only Perm 36 survives largely as it was before 1991. The rest of the Gulag complex has been torn down, scavenged for scrap metal and building materials,…
Tag: Collecting History
The Archives Wiki
[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] The American Historical Association has created an Archives Wiki that allows historians to collect and share information about archives around the world in a wiki format. The Archives Wiki project is built on the MediaWiki platform and aims to leverage the collective knowledge and experience of…
Asking the Public to Mark Up Images (cross post with hist.net)
[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] The photo sharing website Flickr.com and the Library of Congress in the United States have created a very interesting collaboration between a Web 2.0 business and a major cultural institution. The Commons, as it is known, invites the general public to mark up (they say “describe”)…
Geographies of Terror in Poland
I am now a participant in the group blog hist.net based in Switzerland. Before writing anything for the blog, I perused the entries for the past year and was particularly excited by several of them. The one I want to feature today is a post by Marcin Wilkowski about two websites based in Poland that…