Digital Projects
Virtual Rosewood
Exploring the history of Rosewood, Florida – a majority African American town destroyed during a 1923 race riot.
Keweenaw Time Traveler
An online interactive historical atlas that is changing how we learn about, share, and research the history and heritage of Michigan’s Copper Country.
African Digital Heritage
A Nairobi based, non profit organization working to encourage a more critical, holistic and knowledge-based approach to digital solutions within African heritage.
CCC @ Devils Den State Park
A site that combines digital mapping with the historical archive.
Rising Above in Arkansas
Updates to the site will feature new interactive maps and a timeline that will include the history of both Arkansas camps at Rohwer and Jerome. The archive features nearly 2500 unique items with full metadata to allow for ease of searchability.
Historic Powhatan
Explore the history of the town of Powhatan from the late 1800’s to today.
District Six Museum and the St. Mark’s Memory Mapping Project
Interactive historical map that serves as a memorial to the displaced residents of District Six in Cape Twon, South Africa.
https://www.districtsix.co.za/project/st-marks-memory-mapping-project/
Publications
Gachago, Daniela, Scheepers, Jacqui & Candice Livingston (2021) Telling Stories about Stories. Towards ethical guidelines for digital storytelling in Higher Education. In Bezerra, J., Paterson, C. & Paphitis, S. (Eds): Challenging the Apartheids of Knowledge in Higher Education through Social Innovation. Stellenbosch: Sun Media. Link.
González-Tennant, Edward (2017) Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Technologies for an Engaged Anthropological Pedagogy. In Deep Stories: Practicing, Teaching, and Learning Anthropology with Digital Storytelling, edited by Aaron Thornburg and Mariela Nunez-Janes, pp. 152-169. De Gruyter Open. Link.
Lafreniere, Don, Weidner, Luke, Trepal, Daniel, Fayen Scarlett, Sarah, Arnold, John, Pastel, Robert & Ryan Williams (2019) Public participatory historical GIS, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 52:3, 132-149, DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2019.1567418
Mazzoli Smith, Laura (2020) Diversifying the discourse of progression to higher education: Digital storytelling methodology in widening participation practice. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 22(1), 79-94. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.22.1.79
Motala, Siddique & Vivienne Bozalek (2022) Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(2), 244–256, DOI: 10.1177/10778004211042349
Suleman, Hussein (2019) Reflections on Design Principles for a Digital Repository in a Low Resource Environment, Proceedings of HistoInformatics Workshop 2019, 13 September 2019, Oslo, Norway, CEUR. Link.
Trainaind and Research resources
Anthro Yeti
Archaeology, Folklore, History: Turials, Mini-Docs, and Heritage Visualisations.
Keweenaw History. Lesson plans and tutorials coming soon.
African Digital Heritage Training Resources:
Simple DL
An experimental toolkit to create simple digital libraries, where the goal is ease of preservation, ease of rescue and ease of development.
Endangered Archaeology: Using Remote Sensing to Protect Cultural Heritage
Multilingual online course that teaches how to access and use satellite imagery to document heritage sites. Available in English, French, Arabic, and Farsi.
https://eamena.org/mooc-1-endangered-archaeology-using-remote-sensing-protect-cultural-heritage
Digital Storytelling Webinar
Webinar held on 14/03/2023 on Digital Storytelling in the Global South: Utilizing Spatial Archives for Diverse Audiences