Category: digital history
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Internet time capsule
In contrast to Wednesday’s Library of Congress announcement, the following highlights significant cultural change in not quite seven years. Let me disclaim up front by saying I really appreciate the organizational attitude change apparent since the following was reported, and imply no criticism of the Library or Librarian of Congress. (April 15, 2000 – Tech…
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Library of Congress does it right
In a press release Wednesday, the Librarian of Congress announced a fantastic new project to digitize selected books from the collection: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded the Library of Congress a $2 million grant for a program to digitize thousands of public-domain works, with…
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Very Bad Behavior
I love Akismet. It’s very good at identifying comment spam and putting it to one side for me to review later. But my needs have been modest: it took more than 8 months for Akismet to trap the first 2,000 spam comments to this blog. Then some invisible switch was thrown or critical mass reached…
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1937: Antietam’s 75th Anniversary
This is a picture taken June 6, 1936 in the cemetary at Winchester on decoration day. I [George Dellinger] am in uniform X. The other one is Daniel Miller, a Confederate vet, now in his 100th year. I am in my 92nd year (from the back of the photo) George Dellinger, formerly of Company D,…
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Instant digital history
This afternoon, thanks to Google’s blogsearch, I came upon something I haven’t seen before: a DIY instant history website. Wethersfield in the Civil War is apparently brand new from someone at the Wethersfield (Connecticut) Historical Society and looks like a transcription of the work of one Wes Christensen. The site is hosted on Blogger and…
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Building on a CMS 1
In mid-2003 I completely reworked Antietam on the Web, dropping unmanageable static HTML and using a new database to store the contents. To create and deliver that content I built a rudimentary Content Management System (CMS) in PHP. Today I’d download a ready-made CMS and customize it to suit rather than build my own. No…
