Central Rim Neighborhood project
Data
Big data
- Dumbill, “What is Big Data?“
- Croll, “Big Data is our generation’s civil rights issue, and we don’t know it”
- Bluestein, “Big Data on Campus is Like a Keg Stand for Your Brain”
- Gibbs and Owen, Writing History in the Digital Age, “The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing”
- Silverman, “Through a Data Set, Darkly”
Curating and Preserving Data Digitally
- Flanders and Muñoz, “What is data curation?”
- Fenlon, Jett, and Palmer, “Digital Collections and Aggregation”
- Grotke, “Collaborating to Identify Government or Election-Related Websites to Preserve”
- Lavoie and Dempsey, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at. . .Digital Preservation”
- Ashenfelder, “One Family’s Personal Digital Archive Project”:
Working with large datasets
- Owens, “Defining Data for Humanists: Text, Artifact, Information or Evidence”:
- Underwood, “Where to start with text mining”
- Manovich, “What is visualization?” Download the essay at http://manovich.net/2010/10/25/new-article-what-is-visualization/.
- Sherratt, “It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People”
- Collins, “Poe’s Debut, Hidden in Plain Sight?”
Working with large datasets: case study from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Chan, “Releasing the Collection on GitHub”
- Gonzalez, “Applying Digital Humanities Approaches to Museum Collections Data”
- Ridge, “Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections”
- Walter, “People playing with collections #14: collection data on Many Eyes”
- Murray-John, “Hacking on Cooper-Hewitt’s data release at THATCamp, Or, How to get me to work for free”
Visualization
- Theibault, Writing History in the Digital Age, “Visualizations and Historical Arguments”
- Explore the Spatial History Project, especially Shaping the West (scroll down to see the visualizations)
The Public Problematic
The Wisdom (?) of Crowds
- Wolff, Writing History in the Digital Age, “The Historian’s Craft, Popular Memory, and Wikipedia”
- Graham, Massie, and Feuerherm, Writing History in the Digital Age, “The HeritageCrowd Project: A Case in Crowdsourcing Public History”
- Owens, “The Key Questions of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects”
- Explore the availability of broadband internet in the U.S. (and especially Idaho) via these government maps
Laypeople and Digital Historical Practice
- Explore the Black Confederate Soldiers site
- Levin, “Black Confederate Resources”
- Madsen-Brooks, Writing History in the Digital Age, “‘I nevertheless am a historian’: Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers”
- Explore http://lastamericanpirate.net/. SPOILER ALERT: Skip the first post; read it after you have explored the rest of the site.
Games
- The New Digital Storytelling, Chapters 6-7 (91-122)
- Meyers, “Lessons from Assassin’s Creed for Constructing Educational Games”
- The New Digital Storytelling, Chapter 10 (151-61)
- Writing History in the Digital Age, “Pox and the City: Challenges in Writing a Digital History Game”
- Sample, “Rebooting Counterfactual History with JFK: Reloaded”
- Sample, “A Revisionist History of JFK: Reloaded”