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Public and Digital History

A guide for teaching and advising students on public, digital, and oral history projects.

Tools and Training

Website-Building

  • Wordpress is a popular and adaptable blogging platform. Bryn Mawr folks can make their own sites at blogs.brynmawr.edu.
  • Omeka is a platform for online exhibits. The Neatline plugin (available on server-hosted installations only) is particularly popular for undergraduate projects.
  • Scalar is a media-rich online publishing platform.

Tutorials

  • Programming Historian is a collection of high-quality, curated tutorials on popular digital tools and methodologies. 
  • Lynda.com has a range of well-crafted video tutorials on many topics, including software.

Text

  • TEI, or the Text-Encoding Initiative, offers guidelines for representing digital texts, and is often used with the transcription of primary-source materials.

Quick and Easy

  • Historypin lets users link map points to media content.
  • History Engine is a website for undergraduates to share short primary-source research assignments on the web.