Category: Digital History

  We are finally done! This semester, six other class members and I worked on digitizing a 500 page register and creating an interactive map for National Park Service and the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. We created a website through Omeka that contains information about the register, the map, and history of Read More

Last week of class. Our project is and turned in. Now we just need to edit the suggestions made by our professor and present at the Student Symposium tomorrow. Some of the comments by the professor are to clarify certain things, such as how to search the Omeka site and Read More

We are coming to our last week of classes. This week we gave our final presentation of our project to our class. Later that day, we were able to batch upload all of the index and up to page 479 of the register. Our progress has come a long way Read More

Almost done with this semester, only 2 more weeks. In class on Tuesday, we worked with the Google Chrome extension, Hypothesis. Hypothesis allows user to annotate webpages. It is very useful when an author or other web user wants feedback on their sites if they are working on updating or Read More

We are less than a month away from completion of the Cemetery project and it is coming along very nicely. Our group has figured out naming conventions, the spreadsheet format, inclusion of grave numbers, landmarks for the GoogleMap, and thumbnails for the images to upload onto Omeka, We have made Read More

As we get further and further into the digital era, we have new problems that arise. Some of the issues that arise is with all these digital tools that help the user, such as Zotero, which formats cited sources automatically. Zotero is very helpful for putting the information down, however Read More

My digital portfolio can be found by clicking on the link to my  C.V. It is still under editing because I am still building my digital identity and working on various projects. I first started this site for a class and I was not sure what I would use my sites Read More

Creating a digital identity is hard at first because you may not have a lot of works to show off. I looked at a few blogs and articles that focused on creating a digital identity and they all pointed out various thoughts to consider. I looked at the site of Read More

We are back in class after a nice spring break. We met on Tuesday to talk more about our project. We discussed how we wanted to enter the names in the row description, which was copying and pasting them from the registrar spreadsheet in the format of first name and Read More

This week we looked at copyright and protecting one’s digital work. It is always important to give credit where credit is due that way no one is hurt and no illegal actions occurred. Creative Commons is a free network that allows users to legally share internet sites and provides free  copyright Read More