Nice site btw!

Shane

I think Amanda is going to talk about this tonight. But after talking to her, I was able to do this pretty easily. You have to upload an html page (file name like index.html) from your local site to your remote site using you FTP ( i created the index.html with my computer’s text editor using some code copied and pasted from my main omeka page and some stuff I wrote) it is at brigidharmon.com now. ( it looks weird with the color, i have to fix that)

I was able to embed a youtube video in the omeka archive. I selected hyperlink for the item type and pasted the embed link in that field. This did work to display the video.

I could not get it to display for the exhibtion however.

To some extent, Omeka is optimized for preservation — note especially that you can get data out of it with OAI if you install the plugin for that purpose.

Yes, there is a way to allow certain people access: you create them a user account with “Researcher” status. See http://omeka.org/codex/User_Roles

This research is a big part of my M.A. thesis and my future PhD work.

I have already started building the site – http://www.harlemcore.com

For now, it will have a general history of the organization and many of the documents (and photos) that I have been able to find over the last year and a half.

-EJ

http://rachelbayla.com/project/

http://www.digitalmeredith.com/digitalhistoryproject

(the documents are all currently private pending a few responses I’m waiting for concerning copyright… I will make them public for this class though in case we are talking about them in class today)

I’m flawed as a thinker in some ways because I can always see multiple sides to every issue. There’s no doubt in my mind that technology is expensive and annoying, but there’s also no doubt in my mind that it’s awesome. I make decisions on a case-bycase basis: is this technology too annoying and expensive without being sufficiently awesome? If so, I always say don’t bother. Google Wave, for instance, is not expensive, but it is annoying and insufficiently awesome, so I haven’t been bothering with it.

Also, what this particular article doesn’t address is whether universities are taking sufficient advantage of free and low-cost technologies. There are lots of ways to spend less on technology that universities often don’t consider.

This site is intended to collect variations of soldier correspondence (or communications) starting as early as the Revolutionary War. So far I have a few letters from a couple of different wars in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, but I would like to add letters from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars if possible. I am also planning to include a number of soldier blogs from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, as I would like this to be a main focus. I haven’t quite figured out how I can/want to do this though. Eventually I plan to use the site to examine the changes made by technology to soldiers’ communications and how this is epitomized with the current use of blogs by soldiers over seas.

This is a site dedicated to the history of the Harlem chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, also known as Harlem CORE. During the civil rights movement, this was one of the most prominent chapters of CORE who, along with the NAACP, SNCC and Dr. King’s group, the SCLC, were considered to be one of the most important civil rights organizations at the time. This chapter is especially significant as it played a large role in the organization shifting to Black nationalism during the Black Power movement.
The site will not only contain items as part of it’s digital archive, but will also feature
sections of a research paper done on the history of Harlem CORE while I was still here at NYU.

Now, tech is not the solution to every problem in education, and I know my students favour a good mix of tech and old fashioned face to face interaction. But that can be done, and done well, and done very cheaply. Used properly, technology can enableus to do more with less, and save jobs.

Janitors’ families are going hungry because Universities are offering e-journals and e-books to students, or are offering courses on video-game design?

According to the author, the fact that Twitter exists (regardless of the fact that it is a FREE service) seems to be causing the downfall of the entire University system!

It’s actually the case that Macs have FTP capabilities built right in to the operating system, so technically you don’t even need a separate stand-alone program, but I don’t want to confuse things by teaching the Mac users something different than I teach everyone else.

Well, there’s one additional exception: servers, like other computers, have different configurations and operating systems. For instance, some computers run the operating system Windows XP, some run Windows Vista, some are Macs and run OS X. Software that works with one operating system might or might not work with another, so you have to make sure that the computer and the software are compatible.

You should go into your Firefox preferences with Tools –> Options, then click on the “Applications” tab, then scroll down till you find the .zip file type (it might be labeled WinRAR Zip Archive) and choose “Save File.” That way, next time you try to download a .zip file, it will ask you where you want to save it. Save the .zip file to your hard drive and double-click on it to uncompress it. If you have further problems, we’ll address those.

-EJ

Here is my RefWorks bibliography. I think to see the annotations you have to switch the view to “full view” instead of standard.

http://www.zotero.org/njm280/items/collection/1296899

For Paula: here are the instructions on how to make a print bibliography with Zotero.

Thanks!
Ashley

Best,

Stacey

Please tell me if I can find the following information in the Zotero site or if you can help me…

1) How do you print out the bibliography?

2) How do you make annotations using Zotero? (Abstract?)

3) How do you post the bibliography online?

I have beta Zotero.

Thank you.

Paula

Lessig’s arguments that regulation thwart creativity and innovation cannot be denied and the work of EFF has been extremely important to the ‘liberation’ of the digital sphere. My question is how do we integrate the ideas of Lessig into our day to day digital encounters (creations)?

http://humanrights.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/20/is-there-a-right-to-knowledge/

is access to books through google books a human rights issue?

From the end of the article article:

“It is also interesting that as this debate over Google Books goes on in the US, other courts in the world seem to be going the opposite direction than the Department of Justice. For example France’s highest court found in June that a law creating an internet police agency to fight against copyright piracy violated people’s basic human rights, which included the right to the internet. Although the decision and the law in question mainly concerned music piracy, the general issue is not that far off from the debate around Google Books.

In other words, there may be more than antitrust issues at stake in the Google Books settlement saga. Given the size and stature of Google, the ultimate outcome of this debate may determine more than the future of internet copyright law; it may also determine what information and knowledge the rest of us have a fundamental right to.”

We’re going to discuss folks’s research projects at length next time; I’ll think hard about your problem of having not enough materials. The project is mostly an archiving project, so it involves locating primary source materials but not necessarily “processing” them intellectually, if you know what I mean — it’s almost just a bibliography of primary materials.