History Connected

HistoryConnected

Rose Sherman, rose.sherman@mnhs.org

December 2009

“In the late 1960s Dad became a key player in the U.S. Space program… “

Content Stories Engagement

Who’s Here?

RSS

Geo-Coded

http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanislands/3978081022/

HistoryConnected

part 1 … Content Digitize content and make it accessible online

Content Digitization by Museum & LibrariesImages, Maps, Audio, Video, Documents, Newspapers …

National Digital Newspaper Program a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress to build a national digital resource of newspapers published between 1836 and 1922.

mnhs.org/collections/kstp

mnhs.org/truenorth

Using the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine to archive today’ online newspapers.

Research Databases

Research Databases

Online Encyclopedias

HistoryConnected Stories

part 2 … Stories Tell stories elaborated with objects from the collections

Tell Stories via Interpretative Web Sites

Tell Stories via Podcast

Virtual Past Virtual World:

http://www.slideshare.net/ialja/virtual-worlds-introduction-second-life-and-beyond?src=related_normal&rel=80946

What is Second Life?A 3D online virtual world imagined created and owned by its residents. It has islands, buildings, objects and avatars that interact with each other.

Virtual Past Virtual Reality Enriched WithCollections and Interpretation

Monticello Explorer

Fort Snelling Perspectives prototype

http://explorer.monticello.org

Digital model of Rome in 320 ADUniversity of Virginia IATHGoal: Expand to Bronze Age and Medieval Period using data from community of archeologists.

http://romereborn.virginia.edu

Location Aware (GPS) Smart Phones – iPhones, Android phones enable history to be engaged where it happened … photos, interpretation and gather visitor stories.

http://city.slicker.com/charleston-tours/

Future: Always ConnectedUbiquitous History

HistoryConnected

“In the late 1960s Dad became a key player in the U.S. Space program…”

Engagement

part 3 … Engagement Crowdsourcing Personal Connections User Generated Content

Stories, Video, Comments, Mashups

“Online gathering spots like these represent a potentially radical change to historical research, a craft that has changed little for decades, if not centuries. By aggregating the grass-roots knowledge and recollections of hundreds, even thousands of people, "crowdsourcing," as it's increasingly called, may transform a discipline that has long been defined and limited by the labors of a single historiantoiling in the dusty archives ”

Everyone’s a historian now

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/everyones_a_historian_now

http://juhansuku.blogspot.com

Juhan suku-uutisetGenealogy and history from Finland, sometimes even in English.

Documented sources.

Self Publishing

Blogs

See also: http://blogfinder.genealogue.com

Social Technographics TM

Creators

Critics

Collectors

Joiners

Spectator

http://flickr.com/photos/chadwho1ders/2523836732

Public Documentation User Generated Content

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=hugo+tornado&search_type=

http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2515741495

Collaborative HistoryFlickr Commons• Reach a broader audience• Release history to the people• Enriches collection information

• More descriptive info• Geo-tag

• “Collective Intelligence”

Incorporate Visitor Photos on Our Site

User Generated ContentStorytelling

http://people.mnhs.org/mgg/story.cfm?storyid=1003

User Generated ContentStorytellingHurricane Digital Memory Bank

http://hurricanearchive.org/object/2797

Video Produced by the Public

http://placeography.org

Collaborative HistoryPlaceographyA wiki about any place anywhere that anyone can edit.

Geo-coded dataArchitectural infoHistoryChronology Memories & StoriesCitationsRelated ContentPhotos

http://go.footnote.com/thewall?xid=159

Collaborative HistoryFootnote Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

“pay tribute by adding photos, comments and stories of those who lost their lives during the Vietnam conflict. “

Footnote partnered with NARA to link the service records and casualty reports to each name on the Wall.

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-77.html

Collaborative History wotr Record Annotation Tool

http://lerdorf.com/php/ymap/yquakes.php

Content Mashups

USGS Seismology Data + Yahoo Maps

A mashup is a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a new service.

Real Time, World Wide Earthquake List

Google Maps+ Wikipedia Articles

http://www.placeopedia.com

Rose Sherman, Director Of Enterprise TechnologyMinnesota Historical SocietyRose.sherman@mnhs.orgTwitter.com/rasherman

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Questions?Brilliant Ideas?

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