Event Title
Open Access and Digital Public History
Location
University of Central Florida, Teaching Academy, room 117
Start Date
20-10-2014 1:30 PM
Description
Dr. Scot French is a history professor at UCF and is a digital public historian who specializes in the interpretation of cultural landscapes and sites of memory associated with African American, Southern, and Atlantic World history. His presentation, Open Access and Digital Public History, will showcase the everyday use of open access archives, textbooks, and tools in the emerging field of digital public history.
Open access is vital to his work in the field digital public history. Every week, students in his undergraduate courses work with texts, images, and data made accessible through open-access archives, such as Emory University's Transatlantic Slave Trade Database and the non-profit Internet Archive. Graduate students in his Digital Tools seminar read open-access editions of key texts: Digital Humanities, Debates in the Digital Humanities, and Writing History in the Digital Age. Finally, his recent publication in the peer-reviewed, open-accessJournal of Digital Humanities employed open access tools -- Zotero, Paper Machines, and SHIVA -- in every phase of the research lifecycle.
Open Access and Digital Public History
University of Central Florida, Teaching Academy, room 117
Dr. Scot French is a history professor at UCF and is a digital public historian who specializes in the interpretation of cultural landscapes and sites of memory associated with African American, Southern, and Atlantic World history. His presentation, Open Access and Digital Public History, will showcase the everyday use of open access archives, textbooks, and tools in the emerging field of digital public history.
Open access is vital to his work in the field digital public history. Every week, students in his undergraduate courses work with texts, images, and data made accessible through open-access archives, such as Emory University's Transatlantic Slave Trade Database and the non-profit Internet Archive. Graduate students in his Digital Tools seminar read open-access editions of key texts: Digital Humanities, Debates in the Digital Humanities, and Writing History in the Digital Age. Finally, his recent publication in the peer-reviewed, open-accessJournal of Digital Humanities employed open access tools -- Zotero, Paper Machines, and SHIVA -- in every phase of the research lifecycle.