History
Digital Archives || Archeology and Geo-spatial data || Resources on Cataloguing || Site Evaluation || Teaching
APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System: http://papyri.info/
American Studies program at the University of Virginia: The Education of Henry Adams: http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHYPER/HADAMS/ha_home.html
Archimedes' Palimpset http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
Brevier Legislative Reports http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/law/brevier
The Diary of Martha Ballard: http://dohistory.org/diary/index.html
Imperial College, London - Sir Isaac Newton's manuscripts: http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1
King's College of London - Henry III Fine Rolls Project: http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/home.html
The Library of Congress:http://www.loc.gov/index.html (See also: Civil War Maps at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/)
Massachusetts Historical Society: The Adams Family Papers http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/
Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance http://www.mesa-medieval.org/
New York University: Margaret Sanger Papers Project: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/
Proceedings of Old Bailey (includes TEI encoded documentation) http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/index.jsp
South Carolina Digital Library http://www.scmemory.org/index.php
Tufts University, Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Tulane University Carnival Collection http://larc.tulane.edu/exhibits/carnival ( Note: This site includes clear meta-data for review)
University of Virginia: Walter Reed Yellow Fever History site http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/healthsci/reed/
University of Virgnia: The Papers of George Washington http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/GEWN.html
Archeology and Ancient History
Working with coins: http://nomisma.org/
Pleiades Project http://pleiades.stoa.org/
Resources , Maps, Theory and Encoding:
The Archivists' Toolkit (open source software) http://archiviststoolkit.org/index.php
The Association for Documentary Editing: http://etext.virginia.edu/ade/
Center for History and New Media, Digital History: http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/
Dublin Core - http://dublincore.org/
GeoNames - http://www.geonames.org/
Library of Congress Authorities: http://authorities.loc.gov/
Library of Congress: Encoded Archival Description (EAD) - http://www.loc.gov/ead/index.html; sample encoding: http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/appendix_c.html
National Institute for a Networked Cultural Heritage - (NINCH) - http://www.ninch.org/programs/practice/
NINCH Guide to Good Practices - http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/index.html
Omeka - http://omeka.org/
The Online Archive of California: Technical Standards
Scholarship on the Web: Using CSS - http://www.archiva.net/footnote/index.htm
The Society of American Archivists - http://www.archivists.org/index.asp
Writing History in the Digital Age http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/
Evaluating websites for content and delivery to be used for historical research, museums, archives, and related collections: Professional and Archival Standards
- NYU Bobst - Evauating Sources - http://library.nyu.edu/research/tutorials/evaluate.html
- Cornell University Library
- New Mexico State University Library
- Public History Resource Center
- Reference and User Services Assocation (a division of the American Library Association) - notes on critiquing sites based on primary sources
- U.C./Berkely Library
- University of Maryland: guidelines to evaluating sites
Teaching students how to
evaluate websites for historical research:
- History Matters: Sample Reviews for history teachers and web review guidelines for history sites
Teaching: Note the following sites work well as an introduction and survey for history students:
- Henry III Fine Rolls - http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/home.html hosts a Technical Introduction - http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/commentary/technical.html
- APIS - The Advanced Papyrological Information System has a clearly accessible database:http://papyri.info/
- The Tulane University "Carnival" site has good examples of meta-data for class discussion: http://larc.tulane.edu/exhibits/carnival ... see http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p15140coll40&CISOPTR=373&CISOBOX=1&REC=1
- The Walter Reed site clearly distinguishes between narrative ("the story") and catalogue ("The Collection") and offers navigation within the primary source materials that has helped some of my students better visualize how they might work with images of primary materials and the associated transcriptions: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/healthsci/reed/
- "Documenting the American South" offers students documents in both XML (TEI encoded) and HTML versions: http://docsouth.unc.edu/ such as http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/harris/menu.html
- The Afghani Digital Library at http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/ uses Jpeg2000 images and Javascript functions for "enlargements".
- Tufts University's Perseus site discusses the use of Open Source materials at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/opensource
- For a discussion on using geo-spatial information, this site portrays archeological data: http://nomisma.org/