[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…
Tag: Museums
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”)…
Too Much Information
Episode 9 of our group podcast Digital Campus is now available. In this episode Dan, Tom, and I discuss information overload for humanists. How will we manage to sort through the incredible abundance of historical information being placed online? It was hard enough when the researcher had to look at as many sources as possible…
Images of Genocide
I have now posted into my Flickr site the majority of my images from the Cambodian genocide sites in and around Phnom Penh. As I wrote in an earlier post, I think it’s important to document what these sites look like now, because the concession to run them has been sold to a foreign tourism…