- Are we all digital historians now?
- How is this a good thing?
- What are some of the problems and concerns?
- How can we do a better job as digital historians?
- How should we chance citation?
Academic Digital History – January 27
Readings:
- Putnam, Lara. “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast.” The American Historical Review 121, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 377–402. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.377.
- Ian Milligan, “We Are All Digital Now: Digital Photography and the Reshaping of Historical Practice,” Canadian Historical Review 101, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 602–21, https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2020-0023.
- Daniel J. Story et al., “History’s Future in the Age of the Internet,” The American Historical Review 125, no. 4 (October 21, 2020): 1337–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa477.
Lab: Digital tools for every historian
- Smartphone cameras linked to cloud backup
- How do you take a good photograph of a sheet of paper, a book or a large map
- Which encoding should you use? heic? jpg? other?
- Where should you back up your images?
- How do you keep track of what you’ve got?
- Google Scholar
- Other scholarly databases
- Primary source databases
- How many history databases have you used?
- Internet Archive
- Use the advance search to find a document about Coffee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the 1860s
- Zotero
- Download and install Zotero if you’ve not used it already.
- My Maps or Google Earth
- Give My Maps a try. It is a very basic GIS tool that is free to use and you can access it from any browser.
- Spreadsheets
- Transcribing tools
- https://transkribus.eu/
- A potentially powerful tool using artificial intelligence to transcribe handwriting. How well does it work?
- https://tropy.org/
- https://transkribus.eu/
- Oral history software:
- Primary source search and storage
- Evernote
- Digital publishing: WordPress, Medium, The Conversation, etc
- Networking: Twitter