Digital History A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web

Name: Digital History A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
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ISBN: 9780812219234

ISBN-10: 0812219236

ISBN-13: 9780812219234

Edition: 2005

Authors: Daniel Cohen, Roy Rosenzweig

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Digital History 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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 9/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the ï¿½cole Normale Supï¿½rieure and the Universitï¿½ de Paris-I. A member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the French Prime Minister, he is the author of The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations, Our Modern Times: The Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age, Globalization and Its Enemies, and Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society, all published by the MIT Press.



Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History



Exploring the History Web



Getting Started: The Nature of Websites, and What You Will Need to Create Yours



Becoming Digital: Preparing Historical Materials for the Web



Designing for the History Web



Building an Audience



Collecting History Online



Owning the Past? The Digital Historian's Guide to Copyright and Intellectual Property



Preserving Digital History: What We Can Do Today to Help Tomorrow's Historians


Some Final Thoughts



Database Software, Scripting Languages, and XML


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments