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eli wrote a new post, Local Digital History: Building a digital community of local historians and preservationists in the Mid-Atlantic Region, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

After publishing a very specific proposal on the National Register nomination form a few days ago and then writing a whole new title up on the whiteboard this morning, I wanted to follow up with a second post to […]

eli commented on the post, OpenStreetMap for Mapping of Historical Sites, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

This is a really interesting proposal. I’m particularly curious for how the research necessary for National Register Historic Districts can be organized and fed back into OSM. For example, I have a block by block […]

eli commented on the post, Sharing the work, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

I’m really interested in the challenges and opportunities of collaboration between small house museums and heritage institutions. One great (non-DH) example of smart partnerships is Historic Germantown that link […]

eli wrote a new post, Reimagining the National Register Nomination Form, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

I propose a discussion of the National Register of Historic Places nomination form to reimagine the potential of historical research and documentation in the context of abundance of digital tools for the […]