The W3C standards (called Recommendations) are a key milestone towards a future in which all pages could support rich layers of conversation without requiring any action by their publishers—because that capability can be built into the browser itself and be available as a native feature, just like web search. The shared vision is that conversations […]
Month: February 2017
Class Seven

Sound Readings: Jonathan Kern, Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production (University of Chicago Press, 2008) chapters 1, 3, 6, 8, 12, 18 Representative projects: Backstory Unmonumental Resources/Links/Tools/Media Audacity and Lynda.com tutorials on Audacity and if you understand one thing with audio it’s layering tracks. Hindenburg Journalist: another easy sound editor/mixer, […]
Class Six

Scholarly publishing Readings: Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty, eds. Writing History in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), all entries in Parts 3, 6, and 7 Bret Victor, “Explorable Explanations” (2011) Representative projects: British Virginia Encyclopedia Virginia A Selection from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Digital Critical Edition: ‘Topsy’” Resources/Links/Tools/Media […]
20 Examples of Long Form Content with Great UX Design
Some more long form examples that might be worth looking at. Here’s a fun fact: Over the last 10 years, our attention spans have decreased from 12 minutes to 5 minutes. Our ability (and our desire) to read lots of content Source: 20 Examples of Long Form Content with Great UX Design […]
DH Awards 2016 Voting | Digital Humanities Awards
Interesting to take a look at this list and see what falls in the archive vs argument vs tool categories . . . also informative to look back at the winners over the past few years. Source: DH Awards 2016 Voting | Digital Humanities Awards […]
More Than a Bunch of Stuff – Argumentative & Experiential History Sites – Bionic Teaching
Here’s a post I wrote to try to point to a few more interesting examples of narrative/argument-driven sites that might help shape your concepts around what a history site might be. Source: More Than a Bunch of Stuff – Argumentative & Experiential History Sites – Bionic Teaching […]
Introduction (2012 revision) | Writing History in the Digital Age
Note that this is another site running WordPress and the Comment Press plugin. a born-digital, open-review volume edited by Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki Source: Introduction (2012 revision) | Writing History in the Digital Age […]
Class Five

Web design Readings: Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty, eds. Writing History in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), introduction and all entries in Parts 1 and 2 (up through page 93) Representative projects: Chesterfield County Historical Society Wilton House Museum Resources/Links/Tools/Media Separating Content from Display Accessibility Checker Color Blindness Filter […]
Tag | The Institute of Archaeology
Worth checking out how they’re crowdsourcing metadata additions for images. HEIR – 1000s of historic glass slide and photographic images at your fingertips Source: Tag | The Institute of Archaeology […]
CC Search prototype

A new resource for searching creative commons materials across archives. A decent place for generic searching and if you remove flickr and 500px from the search your search is museum focused. Use this prototype to find images that you can use and remix, across several open archives. Source: CC Search prototype “War memories, 1861–the war […]