This is the course blog for the graduate course HIST 511: Digital History for the Public History Program at Central Connecticut State University.
Writing Women in Wikipedia
Photo by BrillLyle, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the New York headquarters of the United Nations, a teak statue of a young woman hangs on the glowing wood wall of the sprawling Trusteeship Council chamber. The female figure in the Henrik Starcke sculpture reaches up, hopefully toward a flying bird. Volunteer editors in this room reached…
via Writing women into Wikipedia with the United Nations: the #HERstory editathons — Wikimedia Blog
Links from Library Visit
Here are some useful links from our visit to Ed Iglesias in the Library:
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Links from Doug Seefeldt’s class visit
Digital History @ Ball State
DiRT Directory
w3schools
Stanford Spatial History Project
ESRI Story Maps
CartoDB
Curatescape
Voyant
Mallet
Topic Modeling for the Humanities: A Guided Tour
How-to Write Women Back Into History
Please check out Wikipedia:Wikiwomen’s History Month section. See also this article and these instructional videos by Michelle Moravec:
Introduction:
How to evaluate a Wikipedia entry:
De-gendering
How to improve entries about women
History of the Internet Archive
Here’s an interesting article on the history of the Internet Archive by Jill Lepore.
Gender Trouble at #Wikipedia, again
Perhaps the class could participate in the virtual edit-a-thon?
via The Guardian, which reports that Wikipedia’s arbitration committee has banned five editors from making changes to certain articles “in an attempt to stop a long-running edit war over the entry on the “’Gamergate controversy’”.
This decision “bars the five editors from having anything to do with any articles covering Gamergate, but also from any other article about “’gender or sexuality, broadly construed.’ Editors who had been pushing for the Wikipedia article to be fairer to Gamergate have also been sanctioned by the committee.”
Blogger and former Wikipedia editor Mark Bernstein has written a series of posts condemning Wikipedia’s decision: According to Bernstein, “This takes care of social justice warriors with a vengeance — not only do the Gamergaters get to rewrite their own page (and Zoe Quinn’s, Brianna Wu’s, Anita Sarkeesian’s, etc); feminists are to be purged en bloc from the encyclopedia.”
Wikipedia has replied to these…
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Recap of January 14 class
Here are links to some of the things that were mentioned in last evening’s class:
- Connecticut State Library Digital Collections
- HistoryPin
- New Books Network Podcast
- Slidecast software such as Camtasia (for examples of slidecasts, see this site)
- Connecticut Digital Library
- Digital Public Library of America
