Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812219236 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Digital history - indispensable, yet a good read Robert L. Seaver Practical. comprehensive,philosophical guide for any web user. This book is extensively annotated and illustrated - Deft and witty, it is a boon to academics and the rest of us in understanding the revolution to the way we think about framing our world, it's past and present and preserving it in digital form accurately efficiently and cheaply.. digital History: A guide to gathering, preserving and presenting the past. This book is as advertised. It is easy to read and understand, although it is quite extensive and a lot to read.. Informative and amusing A remarkable mix of history and "xml", presented with a readable and often amusing text. The "screenshot" examples were very helpful.
The team that produced this manuscript at the Center for History and New Media is arguably the most advanced group working on digital history in the United States today."—Stephen Brier, The Graduate Center, CUNY. In an online world marked by evanescence, this book will long remain a vade mecum for dedicated amateurs and professionals."—Choice"This is an important book that fills an important niche: a careful and comprehensive report to the field on the development and possibilities of online history, enhanced by a thoughtful set of conceptual and technical recommendations for novice online historians showing them how they might go about launching, sustaining, and preserving an online digital history project. "The definitive introductory guide
Roy Rosenzweig is the founder and Director of CHNM and Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University. Cohen is Director of Research Projects at the Center for History and New Media and Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University. He is coauthor, with David The
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleDigital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium.The book takes the reader step by step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy to use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and reaching and responding to an intended audience effectively. Throughout, Digital History maintains a realistic sense of the advantages and disadvantages of putting historical documents, interpr