history on web where is it headed?
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Expanding on Web 2.0 concepts, this presentation applies them to the impact on public history delivery. May 2008TRANSCRIPT
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History on the Web: Where is it Headed?History on the Web: Where is it Headed? Rose Sherman, [email protected] of Enterprise Technology, Minnesota Historical Society
What’s Next?What’s Next? • Everyone’s a Historian
• More Digitization
• User Generated Content
• Collaborative History
• Content Mashups
• Probing the Deep Web
• Virtual Past
• Always Connected
Still Do Online Exhibits and Collections Search
Institutional Voice, Reliability, Radical Trust
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Poll: Who’s Here? Poll: Who’s Here? How Comfortable / Familiar With Web 2.0 Are You?How Comfortable / Familiar With Web 2.0 Are You?
TagClouds Social
NetworkingFolksonomy
PodcastsBlogs
Wikis
RSS
Geo-Coded
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“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 historian toiling in the
dusty archives ”
Everyone’s Everyone’s a historian nowa historian now
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/everyones_a_historian_now
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More Digitization by InstitutionsMore Digitization by InstitutionsImages, Maps, Audio, Video, Documents, Newspapers …Images, 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
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http://flickr.com/photos/chadwho1ders/2523836732
More Digitization by General PublicMore Digitization by General PublicUser Generated ContentUser Generated Content
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=hugo+tornado&search_type=
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http://juhansuku.blogspot.com
Juhan suku-uutisetJuhan suku-uutisetGenealogy and history from Finland, sometimes even in English.
Documented sources.
Self PublishingSelf Publishing
BlogsBlogs
See also: http://blogfinder.genealogue.com
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User Generated ContentUser Generated ContentStorytellingStorytelling
http://people.mnhs.org/mgg/story.cfm?storyid=1003
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User Generated ContentUser Generated ContentStorytellingStorytellingHurricane Digital Memory BankHurricane Digital Memory Bank
http://hurricanearchive.org/object/2797
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http://placeography.org
Collaborative Collaborative HistoryHistoryPlaceographyPlaceographyA wiki about any place anywhere that anyone can edit.
Geo-coded dataArchitectural infoHistoryChronology Memories & StoriesCitationsRelated ContentPhotos
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http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2515741495
Collaborative HistoryCollaborative HistoryFlickr CommonsFlickr Commons•Reach a broader audience•Release history to the people•Enriches collection information
• More descriptive info• Geo-tag
•“Collective Intelligence”
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http://go.footnote.com/thewall?xid=159
Collaborative HistoryCollaborative HistoryFootnote Interactive Vietnam Footnote Interactive Vietnam Veterans MemorialVeterans 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
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Collaborative HistoryCollaborative History MHS Record Annotation ToolMHS Record Annotation Tool
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http://lerdorf.com/php/ymap/yquakes.php
Content MashupsContent 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 ListReal Time, World Wide Earthquake List
Google Maps+ Wikipedia Articles
http://www.placeopedia.com
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Content MashupsContent MashupsWithin 5 yearsWithin 5 years GPS devices will be able to find digitized GPS devices will be able to find digitized content from government agencies, cultural heritage institutions, content from government agencies, cultural heritage institutions, universities, libraries and other web sites that pertain to my universities, libraries and other web sites that pertain to my current location.current location.
click click
Location-Aware Data AccessLocation-Aware Data Access
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Probing the Deep WebProbing the Deep Web Finding Information Inside Finding Information Inside Databases and Across CollectionsDatabases and Across Collections
A Bush Foundation funded project to provide access to cultural heritage information across MN, ND and SD.
mnhs.org/peoplefindermnhs.org/keywordfinder
find
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Virtual PastVirtual Past Virtual Reality Enriched WithVirtual Reality Enriched WithCollections and InterpretationCollections and Interpretation
Monticello ExplorerMonticello Explorer
Fort Snelling Perspectives Fort Snelling Perspectives prototypeprototype
http://explorer.monticello.org
Digital model of Rome in 320 ADDigital model of Rome in 320 ADUniversity of Virginia IATHUniversity of Virginia IATHGoal: Expand to Bronze Age and Goal: Expand to Bronze Age and Medieval Period using data from Medieval Period using data from community of archeologists. community of archeologists.
http://romereborn.virginia.edu
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Virtual PastVirtual Past Virtual World: Virtual World:
http://www.slideshare.net/ialja/virtual-worlds-introduction-second-life-and-beyond?src=related_normal&rel=80946
What is Second Life?What is Second Life?A 3D online A 3D online virtualvirtual world imagined world imagined created and owned by its residents. created and owned by its residents. It has islands, buildings, objects and It has islands, buildings, objects and avatars that interact with each avatars that interact with each other.other.
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Always Connected to InternetAlways Connected to InternetDigital History Content is UbiquitousDigital History Content is Ubiquitous
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What About Reliability?What About Reliability?Institutional Voice?Institutional Voice?
“We can only build emergent systems if we
have radical trustradical trust. With an emergent system, we build something without setting in stone what it will be or trying to control all that it will be. We allow and encourage participants to shape and sculpt and be co-creators of the system. We don't have a million customers/users/patrons ... we have a
million participants and co-million participants and co-creatorscreators.“ .“ Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Libraries, 2 April Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Libraries, 2 April 2006, “2006, “Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Take”Take”
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Still bewildered?Still bewildered?
Watch the Plain English videos Watch the Plain English videos at Commoncraft.com/showat Commoncraft.com/show
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