[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: Social Networking
AHA Talks January 2008
I recorded two of my talks at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., January 2008. The first one is the presentation I gave at the pre-conference workshop on the intersection of teaching, research, and new media. The second one was a presentation about the 1989 project that we are working…
Open Up!
The twentieth episode of Digital Campus is now up and ready for you to download. In this episode, Tom, Dan, and I discuss what the open access movement means for higher education. We also have a few critical things to say about BigThink.com, some positive things to say about PublicDomanReprints.org, and decide that as much…
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”)…