After writing a variety of blogs for this course, I will end my blogging experience with this final entry. For this final blog, I would like...
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Writing history in the age of Big Data
Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through...
Continue reading...Digitally preserving and reconstructing cultural heritage
In the last couple of years we have seen multiple instances in which cultural heritage was destroyed, either due to intentional destruction by humans or because...
Continue reading...Video games as historical tool
As I am using these articles to explore the opportunities of several digital media for historians, I would like to focus today on the subject of...
Continue reading...Creating history through YouTube
In my article from last week, I wrote about the censorship of historical footage which was uploaded on YouTube. In that article I tried to explain...
Continue reading...Youtube censorship
In June 2019, YouTube temporarily suspended the account of the archive of Alkmaar. Their reason? The archive uploaded historical footage on their account, including a few...
Continue reading...Ancestors on trial: historical court records online
Did you ever wonder if one of your ancestors has been to court, or maybe even served time in prison? With the help of online databases,...
Continue reading...Historians and GIS
In the field of history, GIS (Geographic Information System) is a well-known type of software. Already the term HGIS (the extra H stands for historical) is...
Continue reading...Digital photo manipulation
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Although academics should prefer to read a thousand words above just looking at an image to draw conclusions, there...
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