Laura Rosanne Adderley – THATCamp NOLA (New Orleans) 2013 http://nola2013.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:52:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Creating Two Totally Excellent HISTORY Websites: University Desegregation Anniversary (& US Largest Slave Revolt) http://nola2013.thatcamp.org/05/11/creating-two-totally-excellent-history-websites-university-desegregation-anniversary-us-largest-slave-revolt/ http://nola2013.thatcamp.org/05/11/creating-two-totally-excellent-history-websites-university-desegregation-anniversary-us-largest-slave-revolt/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 20:08:04 +0000 http://nola2013.thatcamp.org/?p=243 Continue reading ]]>

There is already a session about faculty with little or no web training, but that underlies this too.  I am actually trying to build two websites:  one for the 50th Anniversary of the Desegregation of Tulane; and one for the 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt.  The latter is in the context of a class.  Both have some progress already.  Ideally, we want a high level of academically vetted history content, scanned documents; and on both sites access to video–on the desegregation website that will be oral history interviews (or maybe edited versions thereof with subsidiary links to full interviews); while on both sites we will have event footage.  My experience in both cases so far has been, because no one has a real budget or time for much professional training, whoever volunteers with pretty good web skills does what they can.  The end results are not bad; but there has got to be way to do this smoother and with more best-practices especially for the historical material–my big concern–good ways to present things like timelines and images; and useful ways to present scanned materials, but for the visual interest of the public, and perhaps for future researchers.  Putting up designed-to-be-permanent major history websites like this should have some best-practices goals/ideas/standards, beyond ‘what we can do with our limited professional skills and financial and professional resources.

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