The Historian on the Internet

Introduction: Internet and the WWW

Internet

In Blair/Clinton terms: The information super-highway

In technical terms: TCP/IP=Transmission Control Program/Internet Protocol (1974-1982)

A way to connect computer networks together so programs/computers on these networks can communicate. Theses programs  are called services.

Services

E-mail - electronic mail
ftp - file transfer
telnet - log into other computers (and using library catalogues)
news - discussion groups
WWW - The World Wide Web (a hypertext/a hypermedia system)
Internet Phone
Net conference

What does this mean?

World-wide Broadcasting system
Mechanisms for information dissemination
Medium for collaboration and interaction

Multimedia: Text,  graphics, audio, video, animation

Internet language:

WWW,  WEB
WEB SITE,  WEB SERVER  ->
HOMEPAGE
URL
HTTP
LINKS
WEB BROWSER
BROWSE, SURF
DOWNLOAD

The Catalogues

Search engines: The general catalogues

• Yahoo UK - International Yahoo - subject oriented search
• InfoSeek - ordered by subjects
• Alta Vista - search words and phrases
• Excite - subject search
• Lycos - subject search
• Webcrawler - subject search
• DejaNews - news groups and discussion groups, ordered by subjects
• HotBot - ordered by subjects
• FTP Search - file search
• PolarSearch - Nordic, ordered by subjects
• Magellan - ordered by subjects
• W3 Search Engines - collection of search engines
• WhoWhere - search for  e-mail addresses

Specialized catalogues

Institute of Historical Research:

The WHO, WHAT and WHERE of UK History
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/info2.html

Yahoo:

Regional History, UK http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/ History indices
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Indices/

Other:

Essex history
http://cityguide-uk.lycos.com/uk/england/GBREssex.html

Organizations and their home pages

Archives

Public Record Office http://www.pro.gov.uk/

Data/Digital Archives

The Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities (Essex)
History Data Service (Essex)
UK National Digital Archive of Data sets (PRO, ULL, ULCC)
Archon - Archives Online (HMC)
The National Archive of Norway: http://www.hist.uib.no/arkivverket/
The Digital Duderstadt Municipal Archive http://www.archive.geschichte.mpg.de/duderstadt/dud-e.htm
 

Museums and Libraries

Museums around UK http://www.museums.reading.ac.uk/vlmp/uk.html
British Museum http://www.british-museum.ac.uk/
British Library http://www.bl.uk/
Jorvik Museum, York, http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/
 
The UK Public Libraries on the Web
LIBRARY ACCESS The Albert Sloman Library, Univ. Essex

Universities and Education

www.something.ac.uk, www.something.edu (Academic web sites).

Locate British Universities
Department of History at Essex
Local History Centre at University of Essex
Open Studies in Family and Community History (Open University)

Local History Societies

British Association for Local History: http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/LOCAL_HISTORY/
Titchfield History Society

Family History and Genealogy

GENUKI The UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service
FFHS FEDERATION OF FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES
FFHS in Essex

International Associations for Computing and Humanities

AHC, Association for History and Computing
ACH, Association for Computing in Humanities
ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
 

Research

Integrated Resources

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
MIDAS Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services

Historical Sources

As texts
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Diplomatarium Norwegicum (20 000 diplomas, Norway 1050-1590)
As images, Digital Libraries
Magna Carta, Beowulf
Ee.3.59: The Life of King Edward the Confessor

Analytical tools

The 1801 Census of Norway, analysis on households
IPUMS American censuses (University of Minnesota)
 

Local History

British Association for Local History: http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/LOCAL_HISTORY/
 

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Discussion

USENET newsgroups

H-Albion,  scholarly discussion of British and Irish history
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~albion/

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Teaching

MIDAS Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services

CTICH  The Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History
               Archaeology & Art History (University of Glasgow)
 
 
 

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Electronic Publishing

Source editions

History electronically published

• Academic history
Electronic Publications at the I.H.R.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses
Master theses at the Dept. of History, University of Bergen
Bombs & Babies, UCL and Univ. Bergen
• Full text journals, online
Alphabetical list
JSTOR at Cambridge
Journal of Geographic History
Electronic Publications at the I.H.R.
• Local History
Example: Isle of Man
• Popular history   (Tourist Boards, Min. of Foreign Affairs)
Example: Norwegian History,  by the Norwegian Goverment
Example: Bergen History, by Bergen Tourist Board
• Family History & Genealogy

Business on the WWW

Bookshops and publishers
The PRO Bookshop
Dillons

So what?

• How to approach the WWW
• As a toy
• As a store (newsagent)
• As a mail/phone system
• As a library
• As a archive
• A general tool for communication

• Question first?