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Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig: Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, And Presenting the Past on the Web. University of Pennsylvania Press 2005; 328 pp.

hin, das es eben nicht nur käuflich als Hardcopy/Paperback zu erwerben geben wird (angeblich Ende November), sondern auch auf einer beachtlichen Menge an Websites übersichtlich strukturiert abrufbar ist und keinesfalls nur für Historiker von Interesse sein dürfte.
Die Hauptkapitel und damit auch Menüpunkte sind:

• Introduction
• Exploring the History Web
• Getting Started
• Becoming Digital
• Designing for the History Web
• Building an Audience
• Collecting History Online
• Owning the Past?
• Preserving Digital History
• Final Thoughts
• Appendix
• Acknowledgments
• Links

This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium. It begins with an overview of the different genres of history websites, surveying a range of digital history work that has been created since the beginning of the web. The book then takes the reader step-by-step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy-to-use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and how to reach and respond to an intended audience effectively. It also explores the repercussions of copyright law and fair use for scholars in a digital age, and examines more cutting-edge web techniques involving interactivity, such as sites that use the medium to solicit and collect historical artifacts. Finally, the book provides basic guidance on insuring that the digital history the reader creates will not disappear in a few years.