Category: digital history
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More fun with APIs
After playing with the Timeline API last week, and having reasonable success, I thought I’d try another widget this week. As a result, AotW now has another new feature: a Gazetteer for the Maryland Campaign of 1862. Please go try it and let me know what you think. AotW Gazetteer screenshot My gazetteer is an…
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Google Print Library is good for us
I’m reminded to opine by an article in yesterday’s Washington Post which looks at Google’s program to digitize millions of books. There’s been a lot of excitement about this; many people adamantly pro or con. As a digital historian I’m all for it. I do the bulk of my initial research on line, followed by…
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New Timeline for AotW
A couple of weeks ago, one of my favorite Internet-friends, Andrew Vande Moere*, mentioned the Simile Timeline API in a post on his information aesthetics blog. Timeline is described by its creators as … … a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information … Pan the timeline…
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Another Huzzah! and meet Colonel Hall
As many others have observed, one of the best things about the Web is the great range it covers, and new contacts it brings. What ever else it is, AotW is a honeytrap – drawing people worldwide with interest in the battle. A small but impressive minority of these visitors have something to contribute. It’s…
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More digital history rubber
I’m having a magnificent time with stacks of books I’ve just found rendered online. They’re in a (new?) collection of 19th Century American works transcribed and posted as part of the Perseus project at Tufts, and from the University of Georgia library’s collection of Facsimile Books. I came upon these while looking into a relatively…
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Praise for the USAMHI
A quick Huzzah! for the fine folks at the US Army’s Military History Institute (USAMHI), Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. I’m sorry to say I’ve never visited in person, but they have been immensely helpful to me over several years by snail and email. Most recently, I heard from Mr Richard Baker, a Technical Information Specialist at…
