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Exploring the Old Canadian Internet: Spelunking in the Internet Archive
Spoiler alert! Breaking news! Bre-X shares don’t do so well in 1997. Click for the site. By Ian Milligan If you do recent history, you run into problems pretty quickly with archives. Chronic...
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Yahoo! Commits Crimes against History – A Call to Wake Up!
By Ian Milligan (previously posted in two parts on ianmilligan.ca) Yahoo! succeeded in destroying the most amount of history in the shortest amount of time, certainly on purpose, in known memory....
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In a Rush to Modernize, MySpace Destroyed More History
The destruction of Myspace blogs is akin to destroying Penn Station in 1963 – making way for the new by destroying the old. Both were abhorrent. By Ian Milligan In 1963, despite community opposition,...
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The Internet Archive Rocks, or, Two Million Plus Free Sources to Explore
Checking out a 1857 book from the Internet Archive, no big deal. By Ian Milligan For many students, it’s back to school season. For me, that means it is time to think about some of the resources and...
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Why Canada’s Open Data Initiative Matters to Historians
By Ian Milligan This post originally appeared on ianmilligan.ca. OK, you’re all forgiven: when you hear ‘open data,’ the first thing that springs to mind probably isn’t a historian (to some historians,...
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Preserving History as it Happens: The Internet Archive and the Crimean Crisis
By Ian Milligan “Thirty goons break into your office and confiscate your computers, your hard drives, your files.. and with them, a big chunk of your institutional memory. Who you gonna call?” These...
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Three Tools for the Web-Savvy Historian: Memento, Zotero, and WebCite
Over 200,000 citations or references to these websites exist in Google Books, and this is basically what you’ll get when you follow them. There’s no excuse for this anymore. By Ian Milligan “Sorry, the...
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The Future of the Library in the Digital Age? Worrying about Preserving our...
By Ian Milligan Yesterday afternoon, in the atrium of the University of Waterloo’s Stratford Campus, a packed room forewent what was likely the last nice weekend of summer to join Peter Mansbridge and...
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Accessing Treasure Troves of Data: Empowering your own Research
By Ian Milligan This post is a bit technical. My goal is to explain technical concepts related to digital history so people can save time and not have to rely on experts. The worst thing that could...
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Research is Getting a Bit More Open: Good News for Historical Research in Canada
A knowledge explosion! By Ian Milligan When we started up ActiveHistory.ca way back in 2009 (!), we did it with a pretty simple vision in mind: historians were producing good scholarship, but it was...
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Emergency Remote Teaching: A Post Secondary Reality Check
By Ian Milligan They fell like dominoes throughout the week as the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic became unavoidably clear: first, Laurentian University suspended classes and moved them online...
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