Weekly Blog Post

Digital History was initially a way to present public history in a digital way, especially with the addition of hyperlinking as a way to share information quickly and easily! Most people in the digital history departments are committed to making the information accessible to a wide variety of people which is not something that can […]

After reviewing several websites, it is clear that hyperlinking information is extremely important. This allows for the audience (in this case, me) to very easily see and understand what is being discussed or referenced. Here are some of the main takeaways I learned after exploring some sites: Jess Reingold – Have PDF versions of your […]

Wikipedia is a site that is constantly growing and changing. Very surprisingly, not too many people are in charge of running the site. Because it is community based, anyone can take part in editing the pages. If one wanted to go back and see what edits had been made, one could click the ‘View History’ […]

This week, we went over the revised contract for our group. One of the things that our group in particular is going to have to be mindful of is naming conventions and how we choose to label the metadata on our Omeka site. As far as naming pages within the register, we have decided on: […]

After writing our first go round of our group’s contract, it’s clear to see that we have some reevaluating as a group to do. Some of the goals that we had originally intended are no longer applicable due to alterations in our understanding of our project. Luckily, we will no longer have to digitize over […]