1st Edition

Making Digital History Archives, Analysis, and Communication

By Garritt Van Dyk Copyright 2027
200 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is a compact guide to digital history for practice and research. It not only shows how sources are captured, preserved, and communicated as digital data, but also how these sources are enriched through conversion into digital formats which enable new modes of interpretation and presentation. Divided into three parts, this book offers a wide range of topical case studies, introduces... Read more

1. History, Digital History, and the View from the Archive 1.1 Definitions: History, Quantitative History, and Digital History 1.2 What is Digital History? 1.3 What is an Archive? Preservation of Physical materials, and How do Archives Decide what to Keep 1.4 The Digital Archive: Born Digital and Image Capture, Enhancement (Transcription/Optical Character Recognition), Transformation and Text Encoding 1.5 Indigenous Digital Archives: Digital Sovereignty, Right of Reply to GLAM Sector, Community-Driven Curating Protocols – Preservation of Knowledge and Culture 2. Data Analysis and Visualization 2.1 Data and Databases 2.2 Using Online Repositories of Online Data and Web Scraping 2.3 A Short History of Data Visualization 2.4 An Introduction to Creating Data Visualizations 3. Communication and Presentation 3.1 Educational Curricula 3.2 Heritage and Digital Media 3.3 Digital History in the GLAM Space: Immersive Experiences, Virtual Exhibitions, and Social Media Engagement 3.4 Public History Online: Podcasts, Video, Social Media, Interactive Websites, Digital Archives, and Crowdsourcing Transcription. Conclusion: The Future of Digital History?

Biography

Garritt Van Dyk is Senior Lecturer in History at University of Waikato. He is a regular contributor to The Conversation and has taught at the University of Newcastle, the University of Melbourne, and Macquarie University. His PhD is from the University of Sydney.