Roy Rosenzweig, “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
Patrick Leary, “ Googling the Victorians ”
Cohen & Rosenzweig, “No Computer Left Behind”
Stacy Shiff, “Know It All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?” The New Yorker (31 July 2006). http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact
Larry Sanger, “The New Politics of Knowledge,” Constructing the Digital Universe, 31 July 2006. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/sanger07/sanger07_index.html
Jeremy Boggs, Assigning Wikipedia in a U.S. History Survey.
Digital Humanities, Wikipedia entry
Larry Sanger’s new web encyclopedia project
American Historical Association Archives Wiki
Studio: Demo and practice editing entry of your choice from History WikiProject or WikiProject Connecticut.
Another option:
Try creating your own wiki, using one of the following programs:
- PB Wiki
- Wikidot
- Wetpaint
- other programs listed at Wikimatrix
February 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM
For those who discovered that the link to “Googling the Victorians” is forbidden, I found it at the following location: http://victorianresearch.org/googling.pdf
February 15, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Thanks, Kendra. I just updated the link.
February 26, 2010 at 5:24 PM
Leary’s “Googling victorians” is a great example of the finds many of us have gotten from internet searches. Eureka moments (Ahah!) make the searches worthwhile. I do find that one statement bothered me. The “skill of memory may become obsolete” will never happen as the skill of getting the knowledge we need will become more a part of our memories. It will only be replaced with memory of different types of knowledge like sources and websites and databases that may have the data we need to research.
February 26, 2010 at 5:37 PM
Signed in to PBWorks and look forward to setting up something for my History 510 class for our team project. Benefit of update and edit as well as providing information to team is obvious.
February 26, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Sanger’s statement “our respect and grasp for reliable information suffers” when we reject professionalism in historical commentary on blogs or online encyclopedias. His article “Who Says we Know” gives the importance of “credentials” and we should look for these in our research.