As the digital world keeps expanding, this history world is keen on transferring its on paper practices to digital. It seems that one of the largest problems that historians have with a growing number of platforms is keeping its professional and uniform guidelines. The article Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians reads, “Despite … Continue reading Problems in a growing digital world →
Academic Shifts for a Digital World
As an undergraduate student, I rely almost exclusively on digital platforms for research. My accessibility to content, like primary and secondary sources, is dependent on whether or not that information in the UMW library digital catalogue. While the web is increasingly becoming a space for students of history, we are still in the process of convincing …
Changes in Digital History
Digital history is still a relatively new field that has evolved greatly during its growth. One key change that comes in many forms is that historians have had to learn to accept the good with the bad when it comes to online resources. Blevins describes some of the main “uses” of digital history: archiving, digitizing, […]
The internet just keeps happening
I think that the simplest way to describe the changes in digital history over the last 20 years can be summed up in one sentence: “‘Web Site Reviews’ first appeared in the June 2001 issue of the Journal of American History and became ‘Digital History Reviews’ in the September 2013 issue”. The trend has been […]
Week 10
The biggest changes for historians in the digital age is the availability of resources online. Many sources, especially primary sources such as letters, are now online in digital archiving websites. Rather than journey to Boston or England or wherever to find the original copy of a source, you can just look at a photo copied version online. On … Continue reading Week 10 →
Challenges in Digital History
TweetAuthorship In this week’s readings, I learned more about the struggles and obstacles digital historians face as well as the digital history field itself. Specifically, in Leslie Madsen-Brook’s article, Madsen-Brooks focuses on studying sites maintained by the “public” instead of historians. Madsen-Brooks focuses on the word choice these sites use to further show how the […]
Week 10
This week, we were required to read several articles and from them see what the major changes for historians are in this digital era. From the readings, the key changes I saw were: User friendly programs/websites A key change for historians in a digital era is the focus now on friendlier programs and websites for …
Week 10 – Digital Evolution
Dear Journal, This week we were tasked to pick one article from AHA’s Perspectives, one article from Writing History in the Digital Age, and view the guidelines of the American Historical Association and the Journal of American History. We were then to blog about what changes we saw for historians in an increasingly digital world. For AHA’s Perspectives, I chose … Continue reading Week 10 – Digital Evolution
Digital History and its Key Changes
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 […]
Week Ten: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I feel like my head is going to explode. As someone who did not grow up in the digital age, I have to say it can be very daunting. On the other hand, I have learned so many great things through digital archives since starting my studies at UMW. One of the digital tools that …