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HistoryConnected
Rose Sherman, [email protected]
December 2009
“In the late 1960s Dad became a key player in the U.S. Space program… “
Content Stories Engagement
Who’s Here?
RSS
Geo-Coded
http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanislands/3978081022/
HistoryConnected
part 1 … Content Digitize content and make it accessible online
Content Digitization by Museum & LibrariesImages, Maps, Audio, Video, Documents, Newspapers …
National Digital Newspaper Program a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress to build a national digital resource of newspapers published between 1836 and 1922.
mnhs.org/collections/kstp
mnhs.org/truenorth
Using the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine to archive today’ online newspapers.
Research Databases
Research Databases
Online Encyclopedias
HistoryConnected Stories
part 2 … Stories Tell stories elaborated with objects from the collections
Tell Stories via Interpretative Web Sites
Tell Stories via Podcast
Virtual Past Virtual World:
http://www.slideshare.net/ialja/virtual-worlds-introduction-second-life-and-beyond?src=related_normal&rel=80946
What is Second Life?A 3D online virtual world imagined created and owned by its residents. It has islands, buildings, objects and avatars that interact with each other.
Virtual Past Virtual Reality Enriched WithCollections and Interpretation
Monticello Explorer
Fort Snelling Perspectives prototype
http://explorer.monticello.org
Digital model of Rome in 320 ADUniversity of Virginia IATHGoal: Expand to Bronze Age and Medieval Period using data from community of archeologists.
http://romereborn.virginia.edu
Location Aware (GPS) Smart Phones – iPhones, Android phones enable history to be engaged where it happened … photos, interpretation and gather visitor stories.
http://city.slicker.com/charleston-tours/
Future: Always ConnectedUbiquitous History
HistoryConnected
“In the late 1960s Dad became a key player in the U.S. Space program…”
Engagement
part 3 … Engagement Crowdsourcing Personal Connections User Generated Content
Stories, Video, Comments, Mashups
“Online gathering spots like these represent a potentially radical change to historical research, a craft that has changed little for decades, if not centuries. By aggregating the grass-roots knowledge and recollections of hundreds, even thousands of people, "crowdsourcing," as it's increasingly called, may transform a discipline that has long been defined and limited by the labors of a single historiantoiling in the dusty archives ”
Everyone’s a historian now
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/everyones_a_historian_now
http://juhansuku.blogspot.com
Juhan suku-uutisetGenealogy and history from Finland, sometimes even in English.
Documented sources.
Self Publishing
Blogs
See also: http://blogfinder.genealogue.com
Social Technographics TM
Creators
Critics
Collectors
Joiners
Spectator
http://flickr.com/photos/chadwho1ders/2523836732
Public Documentation User Generated Content
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=hugo+tornado&search_type=
http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2515741495
Collaborative HistoryFlickr Commons• Reach a broader audience• Release history to the people• Enriches collection information
• More descriptive info• Geo-tag
• “Collective Intelligence”
Incorporate Visitor Photos on Our Site
User Generated ContentStorytelling
http://people.mnhs.org/mgg/story.cfm?storyid=1003
User Generated ContentStorytellingHurricane Digital Memory Bank
http://hurricanearchive.org/object/2797
Video Produced by the Public
http://placeography.org
Collaborative HistoryPlaceographyA wiki about any place anywhere that anyone can edit.
Geo-coded dataArchitectural infoHistoryChronology Memories & StoriesCitationsRelated ContentPhotos
http://go.footnote.com/thewall?xid=159
Collaborative HistoryFootnote Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial
“pay tribute by adding photos, comments and stories of those who lost their lives during the Vietnam conflict. “
Footnote partnered with NARA to link the service records and casualty reports to each name on the Wall.
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-77.html
Collaborative History wotr Record Annotation Tool
http://lerdorf.com/php/ymap/yquakes.php
Content Mashups
USGS Seismology Data + Yahoo Maps
A mashup is a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a new service.
Real Time, World Wide Earthquake List
Google Maps+ Wikipedia Articles
http://www.placeopedia.com
Rose Sherman, Director Of Enterprise TechnologyMinnesota Historical [email protected]/rasherman
Twitter.com/mnhsTwitter.com/1968_project
Questions?Brilliant Ideas?
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/125421