This article is concerned with how access to free and open-source software—as well as tools that can be purchased, downloaded, and/or accessed directly online—enable classroom engagement with digital humanities scholarship. Detailing the alternate…
Nicholas Tanzi wrote a book to assist librarians on how to teach others to use the digital repositories and digital materials in the libraries database. Much like UCF’s library, most libraries have their entire collection online where you can request…
Rheingold chose to focus on the five literacies, especially collaboration. The reason why is because to live in a healthy environment in this world we must work with one another and network. In western culture and especially in American culture,…
Webinars have a unique advantage over books or journal articles in that they are interactive and allow viewers to direct questions to the host. Although no longer an interactive webinar, in this one-hour video Jim McGrath gives an overview of Omeka,…
The article looks at efforts to preserve the contents of the Internet for future generations. Particular focus is given to the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) project, led by computer scientist Kaylev Leetaru, and to the…
This article examines how searching an online image archive and its metadata in an can be incredibly limited - and may even yield incorrect results - due to the lack of information on how the image was created as well as deeper details about the…
This article explores social media as a means of an everyday civilian’s personal archives through survey data. Through this, a deep analysis is made into how social media companies can implement long-term and permanent digital preservation efforts in…
The authors of this paper aim to show how interfaces and rich prospect browsers centered around the users of a specific archive can best help the needs of the primary users. The authors’ goal is to solve problems faced by other cultural heritage…
Ever wondered how to integrate the social media in the different courses, then this book covers approaches in applying them together. The author provides the impact technology has in collaborative settings, how technologies expanded in the different…
The New York Philharmonic has performed 15,000 concerts since it started in 1842, more than any other group in the world. Because of this they have a vast collection of historical items, including music, rosters, newspaper clippings, and every…