THATCamp | Hope Gillespie | Activity https://thatcamp.org/people/hopeelizabeth31/activity/ Activity feed for Hope Gillespie. Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:50:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.2 en 30 hourly 2 a742fdac15f7850dcc89720bcf72d9b4-en Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, Wikipedia, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/?p=308 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:07:03 +0000 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 […]

]]> 14d4ff75c6387f6bc6a85845c6be7126-en Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, Wikis and Wikithons, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/?p=290 Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:43:09 +0000 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 […]

]]> 13237041cdf4ab7f7d9c6523919200f8-en Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, The Value of Federal Support for DH with Diane Cline, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/?p=287 Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:41:46 +0000 Transcribed by: Rachel Cousins

Happy hours for writing letters “write to your happy hour”
NEH.gov website resources

Breakdown of federal funding by state
Information of the history of the end […]

]]> 0f458149b67a10fde441859a38a49a60-en Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, Building History Databases: What's Overkill?, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/?p=283 Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:39:25 +0000 Building History Databases: What’s Overkill?

Transcribed by: Sydney Thatcher

US and Mexican travelers 1846 across border
More quantitative information then expected

Ship manifests- which includes s […]

]]> ec92fcbeae56ada72da79226a1abeb4d-en Hope Gillespie wrote a new post, Building History Databases: What's Overkill?, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/?p=275 Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:26:53 +0000 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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