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Week 01: History of the Internet
Week 02: Information Abundance
Week 03: Authoritative Information
Week 04: Collaboration
Week 05: Copyright
Week 06: History of Digital History
Week 07: Building Web Sites
Week 08: Digitizing
Week 09: Data and Metadata
Week 10: Standards and Description
Week 11: Digital Preservation
Week 12: The Audience
Week 13: The Former Audience
Week 14: Final Project Open House
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Week 14: Open House
HTML redirects, plus a doppelganger course
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AManghnani
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Julianna Monjeau
John Bence
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Nicole DeRise
NJMilano
Paula Wagner
petewosh
Rachel Moskowitz
samanthagibson
Sarah Hodge
Stacey Satchell
Tracie Logan
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Copyright
Chilling Effects
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Creative Commons
Creative Commons Search
Digital Copyright Slider
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fair Use Evaluation Tool
Mission, Media, and Risk: The American Historical Association Online
NYU Bobcat Logo Copyright Case
NYU Handbook for Use of Copyrighted Materials
Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility
U.S. Code, Title 17 — Copyright Law
Using Google Books PDFS
Further Reading
Approaches to Distribution of Fee-Free Images
Born digital: understanding the first generation of digital natives
Computers, visualization, and history : how new technology will transform our understanding of the past
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage in Europe
Library : an unquiet history
Mission, Media, and Risk: The American Historical Association Online
NYU Bobcat Logo Copyright Case
Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility
Sample Digital Archives and Exhibits
Daisie M. Helyar, 1906-1910 Scrapbook
digitalMETRO
Omeka.org Showcase
Richmond Academy of Medicine Oral History Archive
Sites powered by Omeka
The Culper Spy Ring
Student Projects
Amanda Timolat's Project — Paved in Blood: The Road to Racing Safety
Amita Manghnani's Project — Yellow Pearl (1972): Articulating an Asian American Identity
Ann Christiansen's project — Johannes Hevelius's Pictures of the Night Sky
Ashley Jones's Project — NYU in the National Student Strike
Brigid Harmon's Project — Affordable Eternity – The Lutheran Cemetery of Middle Village
E. J. Rachell's Project — Harlem CORE: (A History of) The Harlem chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality
John Bence's Project — The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated
Julianna Monjeau's Project — The Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902
Kait Medley's Project — Soldier Communications (PARTLY PRIVATE)
Meredith Davidson's Project — Better Under Fire
Nicole DeRise's Project — The Tawana Brawley Archive
Nicole Milano's Project — The Civil War and the Southernmost State: Highlights from the P. K. Yonge Florida History Collection
Paula Wagner's Project — William Wallace Tooker
Rachel Moskowitz's Project — Mary Ann Dickinson Smith: Reawakened by her Words
Samantha Gibson's Project — Double Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Free Black Community in Philadelphia
Sarah Hodge's Project — 1717 New York Piracy Case
Tracie Logan's Project — Zulu Archive
Tech Help
CommonCraft: Explanations in Plain English
Cornell Copyright Chart
Google Alerts
Omeka documentation
Omeka forums
RSS in Plain English
Timeline Gadget
Twitter in Plain English
Using Google Books PDFS
Zotero Support
Links
September 16th, 2009 by Amanda French
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Copyright
Chilling Effects
“Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities.”
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
A useful chart to help you determine whether material is in the public domain.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides a way for digital content creators to let other people know whether they are allowed to re-use digital content.
Creative Commons Search
A search that lets you find images, text, audio, and video that you are free to use and re-use.
Digital Copyright Slider
Is it protected by copyright? This tool will help you figure it out.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
“EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.”
Fair Use Evaluation Tool
A nifty slider to help you determine whether a use is likely to be considered fair by a judge.
Mission, Media, and Risk: The American Historical Association Online
An article describing the challenges the AHA faces in publishing its material.
NYU Bobcat Logo Copyright Case
Article about an NYU student who is suing NYU for copyright infringement.
NYU Handbook for Use of Copyrighted Materials
This is mainly for faculty who want to photocopy books & articles for students in their classes, but it has some helpful definitions and links.
Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility
An article arguing that museums should not claim intellectual property rights in digital images of public domain artworks.
U.S. Code, Title 17 — Copyright Law
The text of the U.S. Code that establishes copyright law.
Using Google Books PDFS
Page specifiying that you can reuse the PDFs from Google Books as long as it’s not “large scale” distribution.
Further Reading
Approaches to Distribution of Fee-Free Images
Three case studies of museums attempting to provide images free for scholarly use.
Born digital: understanding the first generation of digital natives
“The most enduring change wrought by the digital revolution is neither the new business models nor the new search algorithms, but rather the massive generation gap between those who were born digital and those who were not.”
Computers, visualization, and history : how new technology will transform our understanding of the past
“This visionary and thoroughly accessible book examines … how historians will utilize the new medium of computers and the new language of visualization to transform our understanding of history.”
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage in Europe
Study of what cultural heritage organizations charge for digital reproductions; concludes that few make a profit.
Library : an unquiet history
“Battles, a rare book librarian at Harvard, takes the reader on a world tour of the library from ancient times to the present digital age, making stops in Nineveh and Alexandria, Athens and Baghdad.”
Mission, Media, and Risk: The American Historical Association Online
An article describing the challenges the AHA faces in publishing its material.
NYU Bobcat Logo Copyright Case
Article about an NYU student who is suing NYU for copyright infringement.
Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility
An article arguing that museums should not claim intellectual property rights in digital images of public domain artworks.
Sample Digital Archives and Exhibits
Daisie M. Helyar, 1906-1910 Scrapbook
A site created by a Digital Libraries course at Simmons with images from an early 20th-c scrapbook.
digitalMETRO
This “archive” is simply a collection of collections, aggregated (brought together, in other words) by the NY Metro Libraries Council.
Omeka.org Showcase
Digital Archive and Exhibits built with Omeka and showcased by those who developed the Omeka system.
Richmond Academy of Medicine Oral History Archive
Digital archive of oral histories, including interviews with and biographies of doctors, that we showed in class.
Sites powered by Omeka
A longer list of archives and exhibits built with Omeka.
The Culper Spy Ring
Archive and exhibits about a Revolution-era spy ring built by our own program’s Andrea Meyer using Omeka.
Student Projects
Amanda Timolat's Project — Paved in Blood: The Road to Racing Safety
Amita Manghnani's Project — Yellow Pearl (1972): Articulating an Asian American Identity
Ann Christiansen's project — Johannes Hevelius's Pictures of the Night Sky
Ashley Jones's Project — NYU in the National Student Strike
Brigid Harmon's Project — Affordable Eternity – The Lutheran Cemetery of Middle Village
E. J. Rachell's Project — Harlem CORE: (A History of) The Harlem chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality
John Bence's Project — The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated
Julianna Monjeau's Project — The Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902
Kait Medley's Project — Soldier Communications (PARTLY PRIVATE)
Meredith Davidson's Project — Better Under Fire
Nicole DeRise's Project — The Tawana Brawley Archive
Nicole Milano's Project — The Civil War and the Southernmost State: Highlights from the P. K. Yonge Florida History Collection
Paula Wagner's Project — William Wallace Tooker
Rachel Moskowitz's Project — Mary Ann Dickinson Smith: Reawakened by her Words
Samantha Gibson's Project — Double Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Free Black Community in Philadelphia
Sarah Hodge's Project — 1717 New York Piracy Case
Tracie Logan's Project — Zulu Archive
Tech Help
CommonCraft: Explanations in Plain English
CommonCraft makes short explanatory videos about many topics, including technology topics.
Cornell Copyright Chart
Useful for determining whether an item is in the public domain or not.
Google Alerts
Alert service that lets you know whenever someone publishes something with a particular keyword (such as your name) to the web.
Omeka documentation
This is the “help manual” for Omeka. Full of useful information: visit often.
Omeka forums
Ask any question about Omeka that you like; you’ll definitely get a quick response.
RSS in Plain English
A video describing what RSS is and why you might use it.
Timeline Gadget
Tutorial for creating a timeline in Google Docs.
Twitter in Plain English
A short video explaining Twitter and Twitter use.
Using Google Books PDFS
Page specifiying that you can reuse the PDFs from Google Books as long as it’s not “large scale” distribution.
Zotero Support
Both the documentation and the forums for Zotero are here. Read through their help files, search others’ questions & answers, or ask a new question.
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