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Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, Wikipedia, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 right now
THAT Camp Conference Summary
Transcribed by: Manuel Fiallos Garcia
The conference I was in talked about Wikipedia. It focused in the fact that there’s a lot of information in Wikipedia that you can come to b […]
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Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, Wikis and Wikithons, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 right now
Wikis and Wikithons
Transcribed by: Hope Gillespie
There is a widespread perception that Wikipedia isn’t a “trustworthy” source
But crowdsourcing is helping
Initially, anyone could edit […]
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Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, The Value of Federal Support for DH with Diane Cline, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 right now
Transcribed by: Rachel Cousins
Happy hours for writing letters “write to your happy hour”
NEH.gov website resourcesBreakdown of federal funding by state
Information of the history of the end […] -
Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, Building History Databases: What's Overkill?, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 right now
Building History Databases: What’s Overkill?
Transcribed by: Sydney Thatcher
US and Mexican travelers 1846 across border
More quantitative information then expectedShip manifests- which includes s […]
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Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, Building History Databases: What's Overkill?, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 right now
Building History Databases: What’s Overkill?
Looking at travelers between Mexico and US pre 1846
Passenger manifests used after 1920, which is helpful
Organizing with excel with criteria […]
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