daten Digital History · A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web Cohen Daniel - Rosenzweig Roy (Autor) · Pennsylvania 2006 (2005) Herausgeber: University of Pennsylvania Press · Verlag:  · 1 (Ed) ISBN/ISBN13:0812219236/978-0812219234 · ISSN: Sprache: English · Version: v1.00 (Volltext) beschreibung Online at gmu.edu translatio  ·  ·  · zitieren (coins) Cohen Daniel - Rosenzweig Roy: Digital History . In: eLib.at (Hrg.), 21. Mai 2013. URL: http://elib.at/

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Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web

Daniel Cohen & Roy Rosenzweig

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Introduction

Exploring the History Web

In this chapter you will learn about:

• The genesis and development of historical websites
• How these sites have exploited the advantages of the web discussed in the introduction
• The ways historians have gone about translating their work to the web, through examples both large and small
• The genres of historical websites, with an eye toward defining yours

Getting Started

In this chapter you will learn about:

• The basic technologies behind the web
• Additional technologies that different genres of historical websites use
• How to match appropriate and properly scaled technologies to your particular project
• How to produce and serve digital text, images, and multimedia
• When to use databases and markup languages like XML
• What domain names are and whether you need one
• Hosts for your website
• Whether you might need to pursue funding for your site and how to do so

Becoming Digital

In this chapter you will learn about:

• The pros and cons of digitization
• The different ways that text can be digitized
• The benefits and costs of marking up text
• How to make text machine readable
• The ways to make images digital
• How to digitize sound and moving images
• Whether you should do all this work yourself

Designing for the History Web

In this chapter you will learn about:

• General principles for designing a historical website
• How web design differs from print design
• The formatting of text for different genres of sites
• Methods for sizing and laying out images
• The presentation of audio and video
• Proper site structure and navigation
• Issues related to accessibility, and how they apply to your project

Building an Audience

In this chapter you will learn about:

• Defining and reaching your project’s audience(s)
• Ways to market your site, from individual contacts to mass media
• How Google and other search engines rank your site and refer visitors
• Getting your visitors to come back to your site regularly and contribute suggestions for improvement
• What server logs are, and how they may help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of your site

Collecting History Online

In this chapter you will learn about:

• Using the Internet to collect accounts and artifacts from the recent past
• Which projects are most amenable to this new method of building a digital archive
• How to add interactivity to your site so that visitors can contribute their memories and other historical materials
• Ways to encourage subjects to participate in history-making in this new medium
• Assessing and improving the validity and worth of what these subjects contribute
• The experience of various individuals and institutions in recording the history of September 11, 2001, online

Owning the Past?

In this chapter you will learn about:

• How copyright law is an ever-evolving set of principles, balancing the rights of producers and consumers, that must be actively engaged by historians
• The history of copyright law, and where it has left us today
• How the application of copyright can differ on the web from the print world
• Your legal rights—and ethical obligations—as both a producer and consumer of intellectual property
• Which written materials, images, audio, and video you can use on your website, and when

Preserving Digital History

In this chapter you will learn about:

• The perils of maintaining historical materials in digital formats
• What you can do right now to prevent the loss of your digital work
• Sound methods for constructing your website that will give it the best possible chance to survive inevitable technical changes over time
• What computer scientists, digital librarians, and archivists are doing to help preserve websites and other digital artifacts in the long run

Final Thoughts

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Links

Rezensionen

• Rezension 1 (dancohen.org)
• Rezension 2 (H-Net)
• Rezension 3 (Oxford Journal)

Links

Digitaler Research-Fokusseite bei eLib.at

• Digital History (wikipedia.org)
• Bibliography
• Digital History Conference (digitalhistory.unl.edu)
• Digital History Course Materials

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