<font size="4">digital history: a guide to gathering, preserving, and presenting the past on the web</font><br><i>Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig</i><br><br>This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web
for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators,
professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online
historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have
already started in this important new medium. 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. It also explores the
repercussions of copyright law and fair use for scholars in a digital
age, and examines more cutting-edge web techniques involving
interactivity, such as sites that use the medium to solicit and collect
historical artifacts. Finally, the book provides basic guidance on
insuring that the digital history the reader creates will not disappear
in a few years.
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