doing digital history (introduction)
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DOING DIGITAL HISTORYKarolina Badzmierowska | @karolinabadz | [email protected]
What is Digital Humanities?
What sits at the intersection of computational method and the
traditional pursuits of the humanities — Ray Siemens
Um ... anything in the humanities that has a digital aspect —
Alastair Dunning
Using or making digital tools, and methods do humanities
scholarship — Sharon M. Leon
http://whatisdigitalhumanities.com/
Doing Digital History?Doing History Digitally?
Digital Resources
ANALYZEFIND ORGANIZE
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Digital Resources
FINDING
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Advanced Search
Images
Books
Scholar
Maps
Google Images
The same image but
different sizes and
sources
Visually similar images
Google Images
Europeana
Your priorities:
reading list, recommended
online resources and
consultations with tutor /
librarian / supervisor
Information (digital) literacy:
finding, assessing, evaluating,
using and referencing
information
Be critical about online
resources.
Digital resources online
Images: @LegoAcademics
Digital Resources
ORGANIZING
Dropbox
Google Drive & docs
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Reference manager
Trello
Images
Digital Resources
ANALYZINGIm
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Analysing
Excel / Wordle / Google
Fusion Tables / Google Maps
/ World Map Warp /
Versioning Machine /
Photoshop / Gimp / Thinglink
/ Viewshare / StoryMap / n-
gram Viewer / Voyant and
more…Image: @LegoAcademics
DIGITAL OUTPUT
Wordpress
Omeka
Scalar
Infographics
Data VisualisationsImage: HotButterStudio
DIGITAL NETWORKING
academia.edu
Google +
forums
blogs
and more…Image: CensoredPixel
What is
crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcingis the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and
especially from an online community, rather than from traditional
employees or suppliers. While this definition from Merriam
Webster is valid, a more specific definition is heavily debated.
Wikipedia entry for “Crowdsourcing”
• - 905 editors
• - 1805 revisions
• - edits made by the top 10% of editors: 745 (41.3%)
• - page viewed 50685 times in the last 30 days
I don’t think Wikipedia can be described as
‘crowdsourcing’. The word comes from outsourcing – from
cheap off-shore labour; even cheaper, get the public to do it
for free – and it disrespects and misunderstands what
people are doing.
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia’s co-founder
2011
What is
crowdsourcing?
More than just free labour!
Actively engaging the public
in our collection development
Work we could never resource ourselves
Crowdsourcing at the National Library of Scotland
Presentation by Ines Byrne
National Library of Scotland
Carletti, Laura, Gabriella Giannachi, Dominic Price, Derek McAuley, ‘Digital Humanities and Crowdsourcing’. MW2012: Museums and the Web 2013. Online
Crowdsourcing types
Oral History Network Ireland
http://www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/
Cymru 1900 Wales
http://www.cymru1900wales.org/
What was there
http://www.whatwasthere.com/
DIY History
http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/
Micro-pasts
http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org/
National Library on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/
Citizen Archivist
http://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/
Ancient Lives
http://www.ancientlives.org/
History Pin
https://www.historypin.org/
Transcribe Bentham
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
Trove
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
The War Graves Photographic Project
http://twgpp.org/
Europeana 1914-1918
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/
The Great War Archive
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/
Project launched on 27 September 2013
Timespan of the letters:
1 Nov 1915 - 31 Oct 1916
Historical significance in
the “Decade of Centenaries (2012 - 2022)”
Project launched on 27 September 2013
Timespan of the letters:
1 Nov 1915 - 31 Oct 1916
Historical significance in
the “Decade of Centenaries (2012 - 2022)”
Digital tools
1591 letters uploaded to the system,
of which 1490 made public to date
458 registered users to date
Letters from 27 private family
collections and 13 institutions
How did we get
here?
Social Media & Outreach
DOING DIGITAL HISTORYKarolina Badzmierowska | @karolinabadz | [email protected]