Week14 - Social Media and Digital History

Discuss Historical Research Questions and Preview Each Exhibit.

• How has your exhibit changed as you conducted research?
• What kinds of issues are you still grappling with on the exhibit?

If you have not shared your Evernote notebook—please do it today.

Promotion

• American Museum of National History tumblr
• Chicago History Museum facebook page
• Metropolitan Museum twitter
• Brooklyn Museum twitter
• Samuel Pepys Twitter Feed
• NARA's Family Tree Fridays blog
• NARA Facial Hair Friday

Crowdsourcing

• Zooniverse
  • Notes from Nature
  • AnnoTate
• Citizen Archivist - NARA
• Australian Newspaper Project cleaning up OCR.
• Wiki-based Transcription From the Page
• NYPL's What's On the Menu?
• Billion Graves -uses geolocation and photography
  • How To
• Family Search Census Indexing
  • Boston Passenger Lists
• Emigrant City, NYPL

Collection Development

• Voices of the Jazz Era Ballroom
• September 11 Archive
• Letter in the Attic
• Letters 1916
  • Transcription sample
• Computer History Museum
• Bracero History Archive contribute a story.
• Grateful Dead Online History

Omeka

Omeka plugins with social media aspects

• Contributions Bone Commons
• Intense Debates Elvis at 21
• Social Bookmarking M.R. James, A Thin Ghost and Greenwich Village History Digital Archive