This guide details each phase of creating Histories of the NationalMall, mallhistory.org, including planning, interpretative approach, user experience and design, testing, and outreach efforts of the project team. Histories of the National Mall is a digital public history project developed by the RoyRosenzweig Center for History and New Media at…[Read more]

This guide details each phase of creating Histories of the NationalMall, mallhistory.org, including planning, interpretative approach, user experience and design, testing, and outreach efforts of the project team. Histories of the National Mall is a digital public history project developed by the RoyRosenzweig Center for History and New Media at…[Read more]

Desde mediados del 2005, archivistas- activistas del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala han estado digitalizando documentos policiales ocultos por más de un siglo para protegerlos, organizarlos y proporcionar acceso a los mismos — 23 millones de páginas hasta la fecha. Encontramos que la digitalización amplificó la reuti…[Read more]

Desde mediados del 2005, archivistas- activistas del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala han estado digitalizando documentos policiales ocultos por más de un siglo para protegerlos, organizarlos y proporcionar acceso a los mismos — 23 millones de páginas hasta la fecha. Encontramos que la digitalización amplificó la reuti…[Read more]

Print-friendly remediation and backup copy of my course site for “Digital Storytelling,” part of the Spring 2019 offerings in the Public Humanities MA program at Brown University. Course web site can be found here: http://digitalstorytelling2019.jimmcgrath.us. This course focuses on three particular areas within the larger topic of Digital…[Read more]

Print-friendly remediation and backup copy of my course site for “Digital Storytelling,” part of the Spring 2019 offerings in the Public Humanities MA program at Brown University. Course web site can be found here: http://digitalstorytelling2019.jimmcgrath.us. This course focuses on three particular areas within the larger topic of Digital…[Read more]

Since mid-2005, archivist–activists at the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala have been digitizing a century’s worth of previously suppressed police
records so as to protect, mobilize and provide access to them – 23 million pages to date. We find that digitization amplified the staff’s repurposing of the archive to serve v…[Read more]

Since mid-2005, archivist–activists at the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala have been digitizing a century’s worth of previously suppressed police
records so as to protect, mobilize and provide access to them – 23 million pages to date. We find that digitization amplified the staff’s repurposing of the archive to serve v…[Read more]