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Doing History With Online Mapping Tools: Handout, Joanne M. Riley
Doing History With Online Mapping Tools: Handout, Joanne M. Riley
Joanne M. Riley
Handout listing resources and links that accompanied Riley's presentation "Doing History with Online Mapping Tools: an Introduction"
Doing History With Online Mapping Tools: An Introduction, Joanne M. Riley
Doing History With Online Mapping Tools: An Introduction, Joanne M. Riley
Joanne M. Riley
In November, 2014 the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass., offered a presentation titled "How to Do History with Online Mapping Tools" as part of a series related to the Museum and Library’s collection of historic maps sponsored by the Ruby W. and LaVon P. Linn Foundation. The invited presenters were Jessie Partridge from the MetroBoston DataCommon, a provider of free applications that make it possible to map data, and Joanne Riley, University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections in the Healey Library at UMass Boston. Both presenters helped lay historians, data fans, and map enthusiasts discover how visualizations of …
Working With Data In Archival Settings, Joanne M. Riley
Working With Data In Archival Settings, Joanne M. Riley
Joanne M. Riley
Structured data plays a vital role in archival administration, preservation and access activities. Three case studies are presented that demonstrate different applications of metadata: Medici Archive Project: Documentary Sources for the Arts and Humanities 1537 – 1743 (Relational database); The History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590 – 1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma (Text markup – TEI); Healey Library’s OpenArchives (Dublin Core Schema in a proprietary data system).