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Roy Rosenzweig discusses digital preservation in Investors Business Daily
“RESEARCHERS LOOK TO SAVE DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES ONLINE” BY SHEILA RILEY FOR INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY NOVEMBER 9, 2004 Academics are creating repositories of information in cyberspace – and making the ivory tower more democratic in the process. Preserving endangered language
Digital Tools for the Humanities: What’s Being Developed? What is Needed?
This fall’s Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities focuses on “Digital Tools for the Humanities: What’s Being Developed? What is Needed?” Our panelists are David Greenbaum and Raymond Yee from the University of California Berkeley’s Interactive Univer
Digital preservation grant includes CHNM
In partnership with colleagues at the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive, CHNM has received an award from the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program to build upon work done in connection with its Business Plan Archive, a two-year
Now on shelves: History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History
History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online Alan Gevinson, Kelly Schrum, Roy Rosenzweig Based on the award-winning website History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, which is a joint project of CHNM and the American Social History Project at the CUNY Graduate Center, this unique
September 11 Digital Archive posts visitor response cards from Smithsonian exhibition
From September 11, 2002 to July 6, 2003, more than 1 million people from around the world visited “September 11: Bearing Witness to History,” an exhibit at the National Museum of American History. In addition to displays of photographs, television footage, artifacts from ground zero, and
September 11 Digital Archive guarantees preservation of Here Is New York gallery
Here Is New York, the online gallery of images depicting the September 11 attacks and their aftermath, will not go the way of most website content, vanishing forever into the cyber-ether: Rather, this extensive and unique collection of photographs, taken by both amateurs and professionals, has a sec
Fourth DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities
Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown, these periodic forums will explore important issues in humanities computing and provide an opportunity for DC area scholars int
NIH, CHNM launch Web exhibit exploring history of home pregnancy tests
On the 25th anniversary of the home pregnancy test kit, the National Institutes of Health and CHNM launched A Thin Blue Line, a new web exhibit that explores the history of the pregnancy test kit from the NIH laboratory to the digital age, and encourages women to add their own stories to the history
CHNM takes on DoHistory
In November 2003, CHNM acquired DoHistory, a website that explores the life of eighteenth-century New England midwife Martha Ballard, whose diary was the basis for Lauren Thatcher Ulrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Laurie Kahn-Leavitt’s PBS film, both entitled A Midwife’s Tale. C
Department of Education awards CHNM two Teaching American History Grants
CHNM, in partnership with eight Northern Virginia school districts, received two three-year Teaching American History grants from the Department of Education in October 2003. Creating a More Perfect Community, a joint project with Alexandria City Public Schools, provides U.S. history instructors wit