HIST 390-001 The Digital Past Fall 2013

A neat page by the Internet Society depicting their potential scenarios for the future of the internet with cool little videos.

Open access ( OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research. It is most commonly applied to scholarly journal articles, but it is also increasingly being provided to theses, book chapters, and scholarly monographs.

An interesting article that shows how you can use Diigo effectively to collect information and bits of information from many different webpages in an organized way. The article presents some questions to think about when doing web research and how we can use tools such as Diigo to aid in gathering a large amount of information in one place. It also explains more in depth what Professor French has told the class regarding Diigo.

A collection of online libraries that have books and other materials you can read online for free

For the math-phobic out there, don't let the word scare you. An "algorithm" is nothing more than a set of instructions, just like a recipe or how-to book.And the Internet relies on many, many algorithms in order to function properly. When you type search terms into Google, it follows a very complex algorithm to determine which results to show you.

This is an interesting interview because you get to hear from the founders of Endeca and DuckDuckGo. They explain their purpose for creating them. It also mentions a lot of things we've talked about it class including WorldCat.org and Wolfram Alpha.

I thought this blog post was interesting. This individual made a time-line which depicts the history of cyber-crime. This provides dates and in-depth details on specific accounts that provides purpose and reason in respect to the internet we know and see today.

From the library of The City University of New York on the importance of peer review, features of a peer-reviewed article, and how to find peer-reviewed articles.

These are pretty basic tips, but the .gif images of the instructions are really incredibly easy to understand.

This article goes over tips that can be helpful when doing research online. I think some of these were discussed in class but some of them are new too.

Social issues and the past and future of the internet is discussed.

What application springs to mind when you think of creating visual aids to accompany your business presentation? For most people, it's Microsoft's PowerPoint. But that's certainly not the only game in town. Plenty of other tools and services are cooler, faster, easier to use, and-in almost all cases-less expensive.

What application springs to mind when you think of creating visual aids to accompany your business presentation? For most people, it's Microsoft's PowerPoint. But that's certainly not the only game in town. Plenty of other tools and services are cooler, faster, easier to use, and-in almost all cases-less expensive.

This article proposes that digital technologies actually AID in keeping the book a widely spread and accessible media, rather than hurting its future.

Potential problems with data collected by a web-crawler that would not, in theory, be present if the data were collected by hand.

Interesting article about how crowdsourcing is defined by Josh Catone. In the article, crowdsourcing is broken down into three categories. All of which are shown with websites that are used as examples.

a good website help you understand all the details about MARC.