Resource: Digital History
From Lyndsey Twining
Digital History | |
Title | Digital History |
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Author/Editor | Cohen, Daniel J. & Roy Rosenzweig |
Year | 2006 |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Summary
Useful Content
Table of Contents
- 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
- Building an Audience
- Collecting History Online
- Owning the Past? The Digital Historian's Guide ro Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Preserving Digital History: What We Can Do Today to Help Tomorrow's Historians
- Some Final Thoughts
- Appendix: Database Software, Scripting Languages, and XML
- Some Final Thoughts
Review
- Quite outdated
- Practical rather than theoretical
- Each chapter's contents are summarized at the beginning of the chapter which is helpful