Preserving Memory, Protecting Privacy: Challenges and Successes in Creating Meaningful Public Spaces in Digital Environments

Sarah Scarlett, Michigan Technological university

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Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Specific Interest
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Data/Information Management
ABSTRACT

Public historians using online digital or spatial platforms to engage communities with the shared histories of a particular space are encountering new ethical questions and elevated anxiety levels about privacy. Read More

Empowering Voices: Social and Community Centered Metadata

Jessica BrodeFrank, adler planetarium

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Traditional Panel

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  • Data/Information Management
  • Public engagement
ABSTRACT

As social-justice movements challenge power-structures, the ways in which public historians and cultural institutions create expert knowledge are also under scrutiny. Instead of using traditional top-down approaches to cataloguing, public historians and cultural institutions should be actively co-creating object metadata and research with the public. Read More

Public Historians and the Pandemic: A Countywide Response to COVID-19

ALAN NEWELL, MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION

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Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
  • Data/Information Management
  • Labor and Economy
  • Public Engagement
ABSTRACT

In late March, at the suggestion of a County Commissioner in Missoula, Montana, public and private citizens and historians from Missoula City and County government, the University of Montana, Missoula downtown organizations and county historical museums formed a group to collect the community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

Locating Stories: Encouraging Historical Narrative.

robert kibbee, the history center in tompkins county

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Demonstration/Panel

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  • Data/Information Management
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Emerging tools and technologies are fueling new projects that collect local historical data about individuals and display the information in spatial context. Read More

Digital Public History Lab

megan smeznik, college of wooster and ncph digital media group

Proposal Type

Workshop

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
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  • Data/Information Management
  • Digital
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

The NCPH Digital Media Group is organizing the second annual Digital Public History Lab – a workshop that provides opportunities for collaborative learning and professional networking around digital resources, skills, and strategies for public historians and professionals working in adjacent fields (e.g. Read More

Digital Public History Lab

ABBY CURTIN TEARE, NCPH DIGITAL MEDIA GROUP

Proposal Type

Workshop

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Data/Information Management
  • Digital
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

The NCPH Digital Media Group is organizing the second annual Digital Public History Lab – a workshop that provides opportunities for collaborative learning and professional networking around digital resources, skills, and strategies for public historians and professionals working in adjacent fields (e.g. Read More

Mobile Technology and Public History

DANIEL MILOWSKI, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Data/Information Management
  • Digital
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

Public history projects born-digital or including a digital component often use a web site. Traditional methods for developing websites often assume user access through a larger screen device such as a desktop, laptop, or tablet. Read More

Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church: Bringing Our History into Our Future

Robert Cowles, blessed sacrament catholic church historian

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Data/Information Management
  • Oral History
Abstract

My Basic Topic will be my efforts as Church Historian for Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Jonesboro Arkansas, preserving the History of the 84 year old Church which was Closed October 1, 2017. Read More

Bytes of Change: Fostering a Collaborative Culture of Planning and Evaluation for Digital Projects

aSHLEY bOWEN, sCIENCE hISTORY iNSTITUTE

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Data/Information Management
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Few museums and historic sites have a chief digital officer but as more institutions try to coordinate their digital projects and check the proliferation of platforms, tools, and coding languages in use by their staff, managers need to be prepared to foster a culture in which everyone whose work touches the digital participates in the planning, development, and evaluation of digital projects. Read More