One of the main activities of the Center for History and New Media these days is collecting and preserving history online. Our biggest project is the September 11 Digital Archive, but we have several other similar projects, the newest of which is the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Until now… One of the great things about…
Tag: Collecting History
MemoryWiki
One of the more interesting recent entries into the business of collecting history online is the MemoryWiki project which has the slogan “Everyone has a story. Make yours history.” Started by the Russian historian, now writer for The Atlantic Monthly, Marshall Poe, this new project takes advantage of the popularity of the Wikipedia and aspires…
CHNM on WAMU
Roy Rosenzweig and Dan Cohen from the Center for History and New Media appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU this past Tuesday where they discussed collecting history online. A big part of the discussion was the new Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, the second in our line of digital memory projects (the September 11…