• Roy Rosenzweig, “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era” (Have a quick skim of this classic article from 2003. How far have things come since then?)
• Meg Foster, “Online and Plugged In? Public History and Historians in the Digital Age.” Public History Review, 21 (December 2014): 1–19.
• On Crowdsourcing
• Crowdsourcing and Funding

Getting the public to help decode Civil War telegrams at the Huntington Library.

Explore these examples of Crowdsourcing and Preservation Projects:

• • NC HB2: A Citizens’ History
  • April 16 Archive
  • The Old Bailey Online
  • Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
  • September 11 Digital Archive
  • Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections
  • The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
  • Calisphere

 

Digitizing and Sharing:

• Sarah Pickle and Nancy L. Maron, “Collections without Borders: A Case Study of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia” (2014)
• Ooghe and Moreels, “Analysing Selections for Digitization“
• Digital Preservation Guide from the Library of Congress
• Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections

Explore: omeka.net and see help and how-to guides. Also: Instructions for scholars

Timline Js

Have a look at this brand new platform for transcribing handwriting.