Just a fun lil project to visually connect different pages on Wikipedia using their hyperlinks. I think it's super interesting to find connections between historical events and built this to help facilitate that

Feel free to check it out: https://history-links-frontend.vercel.app/

I just finished Wired’s YouTube video where a Medieval Times expert answered questions on life during the Middle Ages. She referenced writings, paintings, etc. to validate certain claims and it made me wonder about the influx of opinions and commentary from people across the web. Could these digital records be used in the same manner in years to come? Im picturing insets of Tweets in history books (“See Figure 1a where people express their disdain for (insert event)”). Are they merely being stored or is it likely that they really could be documented to be referenced in an official capacity?

This is also my first Reddit submission. Thanks!!

Hello everyone!

As the title suggests, what is the difference between HTR/HWR and ICR? It appears to me that most publications treat them as synonymous but Im unsure when or why the term ICR was added to the mix.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320318304370?casa_token=zSfBNQfxiHQAAAAA:sKG1Bu8eFAPQ23fee33kri1A1zfQni27pyfUjz4IwUZrsm64HepcG5J15BEwk4JRo4WwLdul_2VK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqXpcopjyrs&ab_channel=Acodis%E2%80%93IntelligentDocumentProcessing

Some of the best examples, explanations, and notes I've come across are on the public_html or www folder of a random professor's website. Soon all of this material will be forced into Learning Management Systems like Moodle or Blackboard where students can only access class materials once they are logged in so the data is no longer freely accessible which will be a shame. Archive.org doesn't often have complete snapshots of all the pages and especially not the links, pages, or files from some of these gems. Is there a concerted effort to scrape these before they disappear forever? I've been scraping some of the best ones I've come across myself for years but is there a repository for this stuff? If there isn't, then how can we start one?

I've noticed lots of great stuff from programming and engineering.

At the time of caesars first consulship election, he saw that pompey and crassus was contending for hegemonic power over the republic and understanding that he also had a lot of power, he therefore could unbalance this competition by whatever side he pleased

And according to Plutarch, it was exactly what he did and it seems it was by the most Machiavellic means. Cato also said that it was not the competition between pompey and caesar that brought ruin to the republic in the end, but in fact it was their Machiavellic friendship its doom

Caesar made so much popular measures in his consulship that in fact he transformed it in a tribuneship, merging two powers for himself. But when an important senator and cato was ready to give him trouble, he brought pompey to the rostra and made him pledge that he would protect caesar with violence if needed

Pompey was so given to caesar that he even married his daughter, who was to be already married to another man. Its crazy to think, but to pacify this man, pompey gave his own daughter to him, when in fact she also was promised to sullas son. Maybe it was coincidental, but now caesar also decided to marry a noble woman

But pompey being tired of being treated as cat and shoe by all his allies, he rose as an ultimate tyrant and filled the capital with armed soldiers. All of his measures was by the use of force and now the capital lived in a constant fear of sudden death

Since his second triumph pompey captured 1000 fortress and 900 cities. He also founded 39 cities and captured 800 ships from the cilician pirates. Also he taxed 50 million in money from the conquered territory and looted 85 million and 20 thousand talents more and gave it to the roman state and its people, while to his soldiers he gave at least 15000 drachmae to each

When lucullus had returned from asia after being ill treated by pompey, he was received by the senate with the utmost honor and when later on pompey also had returned from asia, the senate started begging lucullus to defend the interest of the state from pompeys supposed machinations. Although lucullus had accustomed himself with a life of leisure and he had catos help, he nevertheless vigorously retracted pompeys banishment of his laws. Pompey, now humiliated, sought protection with tribunal power, therefore giving himself to young and inexperienced men, the most despicable being clodius

Clodius used to walk around the forum with pompey by his side making sure that all the interest of the common folk were being attended. Clodius also made pompey to exile cicero, the one who had helped Pompey a lot before. Cicero even tried to plea for his life but pompey shut his house door and fled from the back. So fearing for his life, cicero immediately left the city

Now, caesar being returned from his governorship he passed a law that brought him much popularity, then he got the consulship and started passing laws that would distribute land and found new cities so he could increase even further his popularity

Hi DigtialHistory Members,

Building a digital archive for news and events of 2020 era can be challenging.

What is the best way to get people interested in news events and digital history?

Thanks

///Larry

The 2020 Report Archive

As you may have heard, the virtual entertaining Uruha Rushia has been fired from Cover Corp. and her Youtube channel is about to be delete entirely.

Time to download and archive those 2 years worth of videos guys!

Hi, I am doing research in Louisiana history and am seeking access to the plaintext or text-only version of this book from HathiTrust https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039542579&view=1up&seq=9

Can someone help me to get this please? I am not from a "partner institution" and they will only allow me to download one page at a time. I am seeking a text-only version of this book for accessibility purposes. I have a reading disability and need to read this via e-reader.

Please halp. <3

Hello fellow digital historians,

I am working with a group of Information Sciences graduate students at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville to develop a digital archive documenting the social experience of online gaming during the 2020-21 pandemic. As we all know, many of our normal day-to-day social interactions moved into the online space, including in some cases into online games. We are thus interested in documenting and preserving this aspect of life during the pandemic in the form of a digital collection of in-game content, images, videos, etc.

Does this sound interesting to you? If so, we would like to survey potential users of this archive (including digital historians) to get a sense of what interest exists for such a project and what users would expect to see represented in the collection.

If you participated in online gaming during the pandemic, or if you are interested in using this collection as a historical resource, your responses to our survey would be especially appreciated.

The link to the survey can be found here: https://utk.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bBDR1udiduxIQVU

Many thanks in advance for your input.

The Library of Congress has digitized a rare collection of Spanish legal documents from Medieval times, from the 1300s to the 1700s. Herencia is the first ever crowdsourcing campaign from the Library of Congress in a language other than English. This collection contains print and manuscript documents from Spain from the 15th through the 19th centuries. Most of the collection items are in Spanish, Catalan, and Latin. Royal decrees, papal bulls, legal opinions, judgments, and royal orders are among the large variety of materials contained in this collection.

You can participate in the “Herencia Crowdsourcing Campaign.” and help bring this rare collection to live by visiting “By The People” site and choose a project of your interest: https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/herencia-centuries-of-spanish-legal-documents/

They’re hosting a review challenge from March 15 until March 19 to finish the “Laws & Statutes: Crime and Law Enforcement” collection. If you want to learn more information about this initiative, go to their blog post here:

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2021/02/join-us-to-celebrate-herencias-first-anniversary/

I'm a history major and I'm in the process of writing my undergraduate thesis about dance stigma in Jakarta in the 1950s. Given the Covid situation, I'm only able to search for sources via internet. Recently, I found an advertisement for a book titled "Pro-Anti Dansa" in a newspaper at delpher.nl and this book is very important for my thesis. Unfortunately, the book is only available at HathiTrust Stamford University which I don't an access to. So, in order to get access for the book, I'm asking for anybody who have access to HathiTrust to help me for this cause. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very kindly.

Just what the title says. I'm looking for any audio of cold war era communist propaganda in english. Anyone know where I can find any audio of this sort? Thanks in advance.

Hi all - I worked with a friend to create a syllabus generator. I am posting it so it's freely available on cliovis.org (a digital project I also run). Here it is, I hope it helps. https://cliovis.org/index.php/syllabus-generator/

FWIW, we aren't collecting any class information. It's just a tool for the common good.

I have spent the last couple of months converting the microfilm, of the Orofino Tribune, to PDF files and uploading them to my website. The Orofino Tribune was published from 1910 through April of 1922. I have completed this phase of the project and uploaded all of the files to my website http://www.teakeanidaho.com There are several ways to access these files, following are two:

1. Click on the page titled Clearwater Valley Historic Newspapers: http://www.teakeanidaho.com/clearwater-valley-historic-new…/ and select a file you want to view. I have named them by date and page number and categorized them by year (newest to oldest); this will open the page to the newspaper.
2. Type in a name, place, or other keyword you would like to find, in the search box. The search box is in the upper right-hand corner of the web page. This will give you the text and at the very top is a link (aka URL) to the page(s) where your search query was found. I recommend you use the URL link to open the newspaper page.

The “plugin” to search these documents is new and I need to know any problems that occur, when you are attempting to use it. This includes the page freezing, timing out and any error codes you might receive. The page and search engine will be updated and refined as needed. In the meantime, I am working on a post on the history of the Orofino newspapers and the interesting and sometimes entertaining stories of the 1st editors. Thanks for your help and I hope you find something helpful in your Idaho family histories. Jo

The service is at https://www.helsinkiphotos.fi

Unfortunately, the search only works in Finnish at the moment, so here are some basic terms:

mv = b&w

väri = color

katu = street

mies = man

nainen = woman

koira = dog

kesä = summer

Of course, once you see a picture you like, you can search with the photographer's name. You can also sort searches by year. Go crazy.

I'm attempting to create a website that places my grandfather's Korean war experience in the greater historical context of the 1950's using omeka.net. However, after reading my professor's remarks regarding the layout/content of my project so far, it is obvious that I am missing something. I realize that asking for help with coursework is frowned upon in most academic subreddits, however digital history has been one of my favorite classes while pursuing my undergrad history degree, and so i'd like to be able to use this project as part of my portfolio in furthering my education.

Before someone redirects me to r/web_design, Omeka is specifically intended for the creation of web sites for history. Mods, if this is out of line with your rules- my apologies.