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Final Progress Update #4
The challenges I’ve been facing over the past four weeks was finding sources that I was able to use. I believe that this topic has been widely researched so trying to find sources shouldn’t have been that difficult. I might have been making a mountain out of a molehill. I struggled to find sources and to make sure that they were in the Public Domain. I think that I was so worried about finding free and open sources, that yes is an important issue, but it became a blocking factor in my research. It made me question as to whether this was the right historical topic for me and whether…
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Exploring Your Landscape with Digital Public History
I used the website Clio for this activity. I searched for my hometown and found entries about various people and places that I wouldn’t have known about if I didn’t search this website. It was a great experience to see some of the achievements that my local people did in their lives and where their story connects to a local building. This website uses Google Maps and Google Earth to find the place that you searched for an also to see if in present day. There is also description about the person/place and any interviews or other related to that topic available on Youtube video and any transcripts. This website…
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Annotating Oral History
https://ohms.uky.edu/preview/?id=60661
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Final Project Progress Update #3
Some challenges that I’m facing are not being able to find sources that are in the Public Domain for my topic on the Great Potato Famine and my website is not looking the way I envisioned. I’m not sure if I’m looking in the right places or if I should change my historical topic. Hopefully if I can find more sources then it will prove that the Omeka plugins I installed will work for this project. Another issue is trying to make my website be interactive and fun which at the moment it is not. It’s bare bones which I guess is fine for now but I need to find…
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Landscape/Mobile Reading Response
Reading the article, “Implementing Mobile Augmented Reality Applications for Cultural Institutions” by Deborah Boyer and Josh Marcus offers the pros and cons of developing a website into a mobile web application. The article, “Storyteller – World War One: Love and Sorrow – A hybrid exhibition mobile experience” by Timothy Hart and Johnny Brownbill offers the experience of creating a mobile application using Bluetooth technology. In “Beyond the Screen: Creating interactives that are location, time, preference, and skill responsive” by Brad Baer, Emily Fry, and Daniel Davis they discuss ways that museum/exhibit mobile/tablet/desktop app developers can implement their application to suit their needs along with their patrons. The options they give,…
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Oral History Reading Response
Reading “OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History for Free” by Doug Boyd provided a glimpse at what the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries went through to create a software, Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), useful to their field and open to the public. They dealt with the challenges of transcription, indexing, time code markers, and other aspects of digitizing oral interviews. Boyd discusses these challenges and how the OHMS solved these issues. By making it an open source project, it makes it easier for other institutions and/or individuals to use this software. There is still improvements to be made to this software…