Have you attended one or more THATCamps? If so, please help me share your feedback and (hopefully) enthusiasm for THATCamp with my campus and community colleagues, and with our students.
Digital Heritage
Seeking Feedback: Have you attended a THATCamp? Help me sell it to our faculty, students & heritage community!
February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I am teaching a free Historypin digital heritage workshop in Orange County next week!
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On behalf of the Orange County, California, Heritage Coordinating Council, I am teaching a FREE hands-on Historypin workshop next Tuesday, January 10th! If you live or work in or near Orange County, you are welcome to join us.
A look at some cool history mashups
June 6, 2011 By 2 Comments
Jon Voss of Lookback Maps has put together a fabulous video highlighting an assortment of library archive and museum mashups.
Omeka.net: A great solution for smaller digital collections, heritage institutions, and student projects
October 29, 2010 By 3 Comments
A review of the new Omeka.net hosted publishing platform for digital collections.
Using the social web for special collections
March 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Highlights from my presentation to the Orange County Heritage Coordinating Council about Using the Social Web for Special Collections.
Teaching local history through mobile technologies
February 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Innovative efforts by a library and a professor to teach local history through mobile location-based technologies.
Exemplary academic social media: USC Libraries’ Live Tweeting
October 19, 2009 By 2 Comments
It appears I have already blown the “weekly” part of my new series highlighting excellent examples of academic social media application by failing to post last week. So, perhaps I can make it up by book-ending the work week with two examples this week. USC Libraries’ Live Twitter Coverage of the L.A. Archives Bazaar The [...]
Teaching the techie side of digital history
October 7, 2009 By 2 Comments
I guest lectured yesterday afternoon in an Introduction to Public History class about the technical, or systems, side of working with digital history. Shortly after starting the new job, I started chatting informally with with one of my faculty colleagues, Dr. Ray Rast — Assistant Professor of History at Cal State Fullerton and an Associate [...]
NARA and Ancestry digitization partnership
May 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) announced yesterday a 5-year partnership with The Generations Network (TGN), parent company of Ancestry.com, to digitize selected NARA records. TGN will provide the staff, hardware, and software, and will make the digitized records available online to Ancestry subscribers. Access to those records will be available for free, [...]
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