Resource: Digital History

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Summary

Useful Content

Table of Contents

Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History
  1. Exploring the History Web
  2. Getting Started: The Nature of Websites, and What You Will Need to Create Yours
  3. Becoming Digital: Preparing Historical Materials for the Web
  4. Building an Audience
  5. Collecting History Online
  6. Owning the Past? The Digital Historian's Guide ro Copyright and Intellectual Property
  7. Preserving Digital History: What We Can Do Today to Help Tomorrow's Historians
Some Final Thoughts
Appendix: Database Software, Scripting Languages, and XML

Review

  • Quite outdated
  • Practical rather than theoretical
  • Each chapter's contents are summarized at the beginning of the chapter which is helpful