| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 334 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Human-computer interaction series, 1571-5035 |
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Human-computer interaction series, 1571-5035
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; 1 Connections Between Family Data and Wider Meanings; 1.1 The Digital Library Initiative; 1.2 An Historical Trapper; 1.3 Connections to Nature; 1.4 A Professional Genealogist; 1.5 Applying Technology to Human History; 1.6 Conclusion; References; 2 Documenting and Digitally Presenting Family Photographs; 2.1 Accuracy and Completeness; 2.2 Identifying the Subject; 2.3 The HTML Approach to Documentation and Connection; 2.4 Adapting Conventional Software; 2.5 The Death of Children; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3 Evolution from Home Movies to Videos in Social Media |
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3.1 Documenting Old Home Movie Travelogues3.2 Understanding Home Movies that Did Not Involve Oneself; 3.3 Contemporary Videos; 3.4 Innovative Video Technologies; 3.5 The Game of Life; 3.6 Conclusion; References; 4 Producing Coherent Narratives from Family Diaries and Memoirs; 4.1 Expansion of Narratives from Diaries; 4.2 Controversy About an Explorer's Diary; 4.3 The Mysterious Plane Crash; 4.4 Correspondence; 4.5 Episodic Memories; 4.6 A Family Narrative Example; 4.7 Conclusion; References; 5 Exploratory Oral History Interviews of Family Members; 5.1 The History of Interviewing |
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5.2 Finding the Appropriate Conceptual Framework5.3 Open-Ended Questions; 5.4 The Process of Interviewing; 5.5 Conclusion; References; 6 Information Technologies for Cultivating Domestic Artifacts; 6.1 Documenting Artifacts In Situ; 6.2 A Brief In Situ Example of Preservation; 6.3 Toys, Play, and Reality; 6.4 Scanning and Searching; 6.5 Scanning Basics; 6.6 Free Camera Functional Preservation; 6.7 Conclusion; References; 7 Virtual World Representation of Family Homes; 7.1 Gramercy Park; 7.2 Bailiwick in 3-D; 7.3 Historic Virtual Reality; 7.4 Historical Virtual Worlds; 7.5 Conclusion |
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10.1 The Valley of the Shadow10.2 The Greenwich History Projects; 10.3 Durability of Communities; 10.4 Teaching a Profession; 10.5 Conclusion: A Research Agenda; References |
| Summary |
In the modern era, every family and local community can cultivate its own history, endowing living people with meanings inherited from the people of the past, by means of today's computer-based information and communication technologies. A new profession is emerging, family historians, serving the wider public by assisting in collection and analysis of fascinating data, by teaching talented amateur historians, and by producing complete narratives. Essential are the skills and technologies required to preserve and connect photos, movies, videos, diaries, memoirs, correspondence, artefacts and even architecture such as homes. Online genealogical services are well established sources of official government records, but usually not for recent decades, and not covering the valuable records of legal, medical, and religious organizations. Information can be shared and interpreted by family members through oral history interviews, social media, and online private archives such as wikis and shared file depositories. This book explores a wide variety of online information sources and achieves coherence by documenting and interpreting the history of a particular extended American family on the basis of 9 decades of movies and videos, 17 decades of photographs, and centuries of documents. Starting now, any family may begin to preserve their current experiences for the historians of the future, but this will require social as well as technical innovations. This book is the essential resource, providing the fundamental principles, effective methods, and fascinating questions required to make our past live again |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 12, 2018) |
| Subject |
Genealogy -- Data processing
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Cultural studies.
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Historiography.
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Media studies.
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User interface design & usability.
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REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
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Genealogy -- Data processing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030010638 |
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3030010635 |
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