Read:
Cohen & Rosenzweig, Digital History, Ch. 6
Cohen, “The Future of Preserving the Past”
Howard, Deborah, “Oral History Under Review,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 10, 2006.
AHA Statement on Institutional Review Boards.
Stark, Laura, “Victims in Our Own Minds? IRBS in Myth and Practice,” Law & Society Review; Dec2007, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p777-786 [note: this is from library database so you will need to log in to access this.]
Case Studies: April 16 Archive, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, September 11 Digital Archive, Flickr, Thanks, Roy.
Studio: Survey Monkey.
April 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM
The fulfilled need and speedy benefit of maintaining history online is a major enhancement to archival and research for historians. The examples given are perfect examples of needs fulfulled, especially the 9/11 and the UK immigration sites. Preventing the loss of electronic data in all parts of our lives will set us up for the future. There will be many useless things saved if everything is backed up but the important stuff will make up for this. Already I have looked up the CCSU veterans project and selected someone who had served in the Phillipines as my Dad had served there and the oral history helped me understand the situation they were in. The interviewee was a signal man and my Dad was an artillery guy but they both visited small towns with beggars everywhere, ambushes at every turn, and men and machines got stuck in muddy unpaved roads in 100 degree humidity.
Interactive websites are even better. Let’s say this man had a site and spoke his experiences, I could question the time and place and try to match his experiences even closer to my Dad’s. Putting one’s research online on any topic could get responses from many searching to learn about that topic making one an expert in his own right as Sparrow became.
April 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM
Virginia Tech’s posts are dramatically heart rending and great for getting the info out to all about the goings on since school was closed for days after the shootings. Still having a hard time negotiating the site but got the point of the posts and photos especially the rocks.
April 11, 2010 at 1:33 PM
Digital Memory Bank for the Katrina and Rita disasters are great. I like them much better because the maneuvering was easier and seemed easier to tag as well. Lots of people tagged and left comments that are very touching and thought provoking. A must for all of us to view to see what really goes on after big storms.
April 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM
Mr. Rosensweig’s passing was so very well presented by his digital mates, students and universities that it is the only fair tribute for him. After gaining over a million dollars in grant to pursue his digital works, he leaves his coworkers the inspiring life with all the awards and accolades the push to go on with the digital pursuits he loved.