HistoryConnectedOnline

Rose Sherman, rose.sherman@mnhs.org

April 2010

“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/

HistoryConnectedOnline

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.http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

mnhs.org/collections/kstp

MHS is using the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine to archive current day online newspapers. www.mnhs.org/collections/kstp/

www.mnhs.org/maps

Research Databases Images in

Public DomainObjects

collections.mnhs.org/cms www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

Research Databases PeopleFinders

GreatRiversNetwork.org

Online Encyclopedias

HistoryConnectedOnline 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 prototypehttp://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

Prototype of Indianapolis Museum of Art Tap Tour

Mobile DeliveryUbiquitous History

iPhones, Android phones enable history to be engaged where it happened with interpretation, audio, photos, and videos.

Gather visitor stories in situ.

HistoryConnectedOnline

“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

Self PublishingBlogs

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”

User Generated ContentStorytelling

http://people.mnhs.org/mgg/story.cfm?storyid=1003

Video Produced by the Public

Collaborative HistoryWorld War II Hero Pages

“Experience World War 2 like never before. Read firsthand accounts, view photos & documents never-before-seen on the internet and add your own stories, photos and documents. “

http://www.footnote.com/page/83001928_peter_tomich/

go.footnote.com/wwii/

Collaborative HistoryUSS Arizona Interactive Memorial

“Leave a tribute, a story or photograph about any of the servicemen killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.“

go.footnote.com/arizona_memorial/

Collaborative History wotr Record Annotation Tool

Rose Sherman, Director Of Enterprise TechnologyMinnesota Historical SocietyRose.sherman@mnhs.orgTwitter.com/rasherman

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Questions?Brilliant Ideas?

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