Funding – THATCamp National Council on Public History 2013 http://ncph2013.thatcamp.org Where public history and digital humanities meet Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:01:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 A few ideas for sessions http://ncph2013.thatcamp.org/2013/04/15/a-few-ideas-for-sessions/ Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:30:00 +0000 http://ncph2013.thatcamp.org/?p=147 Continue reading →]]>

Here are a few nuggets of ideas for a Talk Session.

1 – The risks and benefits of user generated content. How do we manage a website effectively when we are opening our content up to public comment? Is the benefit of the democratization of content worth the risks inherent with allowing outside users to add to your site?

2 – We have a challenge in connecting online with some of our core audience – we are interviewing veterans, who aren’t really big users of the internet (The Memory Project)

3 – The problem of balancing the timeliness of technology with the cost of being cutting edge.We always have big ideas that get whittled down by our budget realities.

4 – The treatment of images online. We have a huge repository of digitized images in a number of our programs,  new technologies allow for the easy embedding of slide-shows, but not easy curating of content. Does Google Images have it right by just aggregating images online in a single space, or do we owe more to the curation of images when we are an authoritative reference? How can we better utilize, showcase images, while still being mindful of the weight of high res galleries online?

A Play session could be to share examples of really effective website design.  It could be beautiful, could be really intuitive or well laid out, but has to be inspiring.

]]> Websites, Collaboration with Indigenous Nations, Teaching http://ncph2013.thatcamp.org/2013/04/15/websites-collaboration-with-indigenous-nations-teaching/ Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:26:20 +0000 http://ncph2013.thatcamp.org/?p=144 Continue reading →]]>
Cathy Stanton’s email requested even partial proposals and musings so I thought I’d throw out some of the things I’ve been thinking about. I’d love to talk with some folks who are thinking creatively about website development/digital publishing and/or collaborative practices and the pedagogy needed to prepare our students to work collaboratively, especially with Indigenous Nations. I’ve been working with the Chinook Indian Nation for several years on several projects, including a website that documents their history. Right now, we are working largely without funding but it’s a project I’ve pulled several graduate and undergraduate students into. Collectively, we have a lot of energy but few other kinds of resources. I hope to leave the conference and camp with some ideas about how to keep the project going and maybe even how to rethink what we are doing.
 
You can view the website at www.ccrh.org/comm/chinook/ (user name: Donna, password: chinook).
Katy Barber
]]>