History 3816G / Digital Humanities 3902G:
Introduction to Digital History
Tuesdays, 6pm
Room UC-222
Contact me
Devon Elliott
delliot8@uwo.ca
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:00pm, Lawson Hall Room 1208 or by appointment
Upcoming Talk
Feb. 6, 2015, 10:30 - 12:00, UC 142
Four Theses on Posthuman Feminism: Influenced by philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and especially "French feminist" thinker Luce Irigaray, Braidotti has brought postmodern feminism into the Information Age with her considerations of cyberspace, prosthesis, and the materiality of difference. Braidotti also considers how ideas of gender difference can affect our sense of the human/animal and human/machine divides. Braidotti has also pioneered European perspectives in feminist philosophy and practice and has been influential on third-wave and post-secular feminisms as well as emerging posthumanist thought.
Presentation
Natalie
Netvibes
http://www.netvibes.com/en
Presentations
Schedule:
http://bit.ly/1KHe4G0
Illustrating: Presenting History on the Web
Technologies:
- Markup
- Text Editors
- Blogs and Microblogs
How do you make a website?
HTML
- What is markup? How is it coded?
- Even these slides are coded.
For more on coding HTML, see:
- Cohen and Rosenzweig, "Getting Started" http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/starting/1.php
- W3 Schools http://www.w3schools.com/
Text Editors
On a Mac: Use TextEdit. It's in Applications, or you click on the Spotlight Search icon, and search for TextEdit.
On a PC: Use Notepad. On Windows 7, click Start, All Programs, Accessories, and Notepad. For Windows 8, click the Start Screen, and type Notepad.
INTERMISSION
Blogs
Microblogs
WordPress
More WordPress
You can also install your own instance of WordPress on your own server to customize. WordPress is an open source project. Find out more at http://wordpress.org/
Omeka
What is it? What can you do with it?
How is it similar to WordPress? How is it different?
Metadata
What is it?
Metadata
“The word "metadata" means "data about data". Metadata articulates a context for objects of interest -- "resources" such as MP3 files, library books, or satellite images -- in the form of "resource descriptions". As a tradition, resource description dates back to the earliest archives and library catalogs. The modern "metadata" field that gave rise to Dublin Core and other recent standards emerged with the Web revolution of the mid-1990s.”
What is Dublin Core?
Using Omeka
See you next Tuesday!
Have a great week!
Contact me at delliot8@uwo.ca or stop by Lawson Hall Room 1208 on Tuesdays, 4:00-5:00. I'm also available before and after class on Tuesdays, or by appointment.