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Disability Studies, Temple U.: Today is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Harrison Eustis, born this date in 1886 into a prominent Philadelphia family. Both of her husbands were interested in animal breeding--her first husband experimented with breeding cows for increased milk production, and she ran a dog breeding program in Switzerland (via Cosmos)

[History News Network] RALPH E. LUKER: Yet More Noted: E & P Staff, "Upcoming 'Vanity Fair' Article Raises New Issues About 'DaVinci Code' Author," Editor & Publisher, 6 June, says that additional serious allegations of plagiarism against Dan Brown will be aired in an issue of Vanity Fair that will appear this week.

[Digital History Hacks] Experimenting with the TAPoR Tools: . I would also like to emphasize the new computational techniques that historians will increasingly need to use with digital sources. This raises some interesting challenges. I can't assume that my students will know how to program or that they will be familiar with markup languages like HTML or XML. We don't even really have time for the systematic exploration of a particular language, like Perl. (Although we will have time for some fun stuff.) I've decided to focus on specific problems faced by historians working in the digital realm, and show how computation makes them tractable. I'll say more about the course in future posts; for now, suffice it to say that it will teach stepwise refinement, be very hands-on and, no doubt, a bit hackish.

Dan Cohen - Digital Humanities Blog: It begins with an overview of the different genres of history websites, surveying a range of digital history work that has been created since the beginning of the web. The book then takes the reader step-by-step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy-to-use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and how to reach and respond to an intended audience effectively.

[History in the Digital Age] Wikis and Collaborative (Public) History: No readings this week; you can use the time to work on your final projects, and I’ll be available in the lab during class hours for advice or help.

[Dancohen.org] Dan Cohen - Digital Humanities Blog - Nature Compares Science ...: My colleague Roy Rosenzweig has written a much more in-depth (and illuminating) comparison of Wikipedia with print sources in history, due out next year in the Journal of American History, which should spark an important debate in the humanities. I suspect that the Wikipedia articles in history are somewhat different than those in the sciences—it seems from Nature's survey that there may be more professional scientists contributing to Wikipedia than professional historians—but couple of the basic conclusions are the same: the prose on Wikipedia is not so terrific but most of its facts are indeed correct, to a far greater extent than Wikipedia's critics would like to admit.

[Chnm.gmu.edu] Clio Wired (History 696): Wiki Archives: The Wiki format was pretty easy after learning this blog thing so away I went. I tried to present a "reasonable accurate account" as Roy would put it, of Lindauer and the thrust of his paintings.

[Historycooperative.org] Roy Rosenzweig | Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the ...: As Wade Roush, an editor at TechnologyReview.com wrote in his blog, .A student contributor to an online discussion about Wikipedia noted that he used the .

[Hnn.us] History News Network: Roy Rosenzweig: Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past ... that describes the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia, ...

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