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Workshop D
Digital History in the Making: Creating and Using the History
Web
Marija Dalbello
Department of Library and Information Science, School of Communication, Information
and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901,
USA. Email: dalbello@scils.rutgers.edu.
Through the digitization of cultural artifacts and circulation of cultural information in large
technical systems, a critical mass of cultural and heritage materials is becoming available
on the Web. These popular and scholarly historical resources need to be better
understood by creators of digital content. In this workshop, the components of the History
Web will be examined from the perspectives of creation and use.
The workshop will have the following components:
- n overview of policies for digitization in the European context and the role of digital
content as living history and record of multicultural societies.
- A survey of different genres of web-based histories and their significance for historical
research.
- Creating your own project for the History Web:
How to structure a history website
Preparing technology specifications for a history web project
Preparing content
Publicizing your website, building an audience
Supporting different modes of interactivity
Legal and ethical issues for content creation and use
- Digital history – practical implications for society, institutions, researchers and the public.
This workshop will be useful to all those who plan to present historical collections on the Web,
including administrators and developers of archival and museum displays as well as historians
and other researchers. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their own historical projects and
history sites of their own institutions.
REFERENCES
Cohen, D.J., & Rosenzweig, R. (2005). Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the
Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dalbello, M. (2004). Institutional Shaping of Cultural Memory: Digital Library as Environment for Textual
Transmission. Library Quarterly 74(3), 265-299.
Dalbello, M. (2004). Historian as User of the Internet Archive: Historical Record on the Web, from “Wayback”
in 1996. Workshop presented at the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference, Dubrovnik, May
24-29, 2004.
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