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.
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ISBN
9783030010638
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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