I’ll admit I took the way way out this week, choosing a mapping project that was mentioned in one of the readings, but I figured that if I didn’t choose Going to the Show I would have just ended up Googling “digital mapping projects that are just like Going to the Show” until I found something. This project looks at…
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All Alone in A Crowd: Born Digital Content on Archive Websites
Crowdsourcing is a word that, in my experience, elicits equal parts excitement and trepidation. It contains within it a potential new font of information, but also some erosion of whatever control a curator or institution may have. Neither one of those is by definition a good or bad thing. The archives that the class examined this week all have an…
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Dual-Makeup: Digitization and Books
For someone who lives in the digital age, I have what I think is probably an outsized appreciation for the card catalogue. I have used the phrase “don’t trust the computers” more times than anyone outside of a dystopian science fiction novel has any right to have done (to be clear: I was speaking about a specific computer system that,…
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I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan: Data Visualization
The Final Product! At this moment, I would not call my experience with Tableau a rousing success. I decided that I would use data that will be useful to my thesis – a representation of where the US government recorded US ships being taken when they were captured by the French. More specifically, I want to show the reality that US…
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The Lights on the Lady in Tights: Theater, Film, and Massive Amounts of Data
When I was small, I didn’t have social networking sites – I had IMDb. It was the first website I ever visited, and was my introduction to the marvels of digital history. It allowed me to pursue one of my favorite hobbies, cross-referencing film encyclopedias, with just a few keystrokes. I still have the printout for the first actress I…
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I’ll Build a World of My Own: The Hearst Castle App
Before this week, I had never used any museum’s app, and the Hearst Castle app, was, I feel, a kind of weird introduction. However, that works for me. I feel like if Hearst Castle was the first house you saw, it would be kind of a weird introduction to other houses. But it would almost have to be – how…
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My Kind of Blog
They’re bad, they’re dangerous, you wouldn’t trust them any farther than you could…just kidding, the history-themed internet is mostly lovely It was really hard to write this post, because there are so many good history websites out there, that filling the latter two categories out of good, bad, and ugly mostly just made me sad. I decided to focus on…
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