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Adventures in Digital History

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    Final Reflection

    Apr 26, 2018 No Comment

    This semester, myself and six others were tasked with the project of creating a website and interactive map for the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. In addition to these tasks, we were to digitize a

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    All done! (almost)

    Apr 24, 2018 1 Comment

    We did it! We submitted our project last night and are awaiting comments and revisions from Professor McClurken so that we can hammer out some details before presenting on Friday. I'm extremely proud

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    Home Stretch!

    Apr 17, 2018 1 Comment

    In t-minus one week we will be turning in our project and shortly after we will be presenting it at the departmental symposium. Today we made even more strides with our website! Since we finished the

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    Hypothesis

    Apr 12, 2018 1 Comment

    Yesterday, we worked on utilizing Hypothesis to annotate Cohen and Rosenzweig's Digital History. Through this process we were able to go through each section and see what portions of the text had out

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    Updates on our project

    Apr 10, 2018 1 Comment

    So far, our group has been making huge strides when it comes to our spreadsheet. In order for us to be able to batch upload our information, we had to create a spreadsheet that includes all of the

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    Digital History and its Key Changes

    Mar 27, 2018 1 Comment

    Digital History was initially a way to present public history in a digital way, especially with the addition of hyperlinking as a way to share information quickly and easily! Most people in the

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    Digital Identity

    Mar 20, 2018 No Comment

    After reviewing several websites, it is clear that hyperlinking information is extremely important. This allows for the audience (in this case, me) to very easily see and understand what is being

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    Wikipedia + Creative Commons

    Feb 27, 2018 No Comment

    Wikipedia is a site that is constantly growing and changing. Very surprisingly, not too many people are in charge of running the site. Because it is community based, anyone can take part in editing

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    Naming Conventions + Metadata

    Feb 20, 2018 No Comment

    This week, we went over the revised contract for our group. One of the things that our group in particular is going to have to be mindful of is naming conventions and how we choose to label the

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    Contracts

    Feb 14, 2018 No Comment

    After writing our first go round of our group's contract, it's clear to see that we have some reevaluating as a group to do. Some of the goals that we had originally intended are no longer applicable

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