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Journal of a Plague Semester
Title (Dublin Core)
Journal of a Plague Semester
Description (Dublin Core)
On March 13, 2020, at 3:55PM, Catherine O'Donnell asked the question that generated Journal of a Plague Year. Within 5 minutes, Mark Tebeau & Richard Amesbury replied, and we were on zoom within 10 minutes. Within the next hour, Mark Tebeau had registered with Omeka.net and implemented the first iteration of Journal of a Plague Year, using Omeka Classic via the hosted Omeka site (at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.).
Even though we all recognized the importance of the moment, the title reveals how ephemeral she thought it might be.
Even though we all recognized the importance of the moment, the title reveals how ephemeral she thought it might be.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 13, 2020
March 13, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Catherine O'Donnell
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Mark Tebeau
Type (Dublin Core)
email
screenshot
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Museums & Libraries
English
Education--Universities
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
email
Zoom
archive
Journal of the Plague Year
important
public history
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/23/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
06/04/2020
04/29/2021
06/15/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
03/13/2020
Email Body (Omeka Classic)
Dear Mark and Richard,
This is likely frivolous amidst everything going on, but I wanted to put you two in touch, in case there's a way public history can facilitate the creation -- or students' creation -- of a repository of this strange time. Students would be acting less as historians, admittedly, than as chroniclers, recorders, memoirists, image collectors...but collecting materials (including screenshots and that sort of thing) that they think a future historian would want, is thinking like an historian. And if we did create a repository, it could be a source for a number of future projects, including perhaps for people in other disciplines. Again, we're all busy just getting through the day, and it's possible this sort of thing should just occur ad hoc, at the level of courses. But I thought I'd throw that in the air, in case Mark and public history might provide a framework.
Best,
Catherine
This is likely frivolous amidst everything going on, but I wanted to put you two in touch, in case there's a way public history can facilitate the creation -- or students' creation -- of a repository of this strange time. Students would be acting less as historians, admittedly, than as chroniclers, recorders, memoirists, image collectors...but collecting materials (including screenshots and that sort of thing) that they think a future historian would want, is thinking like an historian. And if we did create a repository, it could be a source for a number of future projects, including perhaps for people in other disciplines. Again, we're all busy just getting through the day, and it's possible this sort of thing should just occur ad hoc, at the level of courses. But I thought I'd throw that in the air, in case Mark and public history might provide a framework.
Best,
Catherine
Subject Line (Omeka Classic)
Journal of a Plague Semester
From (Omeka Classic)
Catherine O'Donnell
To (Omeka Classic)
Mark Tebeau
Richard Amesbury
Accrual Method (Dublin Core)
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