Using Drupal for collaborative historical research
This case study will discuss the Founders and Survivors project, which brings together amateur historians and genealogists along with academics from many disciplines to collaborate in historical research. The presentation will cover some of the modules and techniques used to implement a data collection and verification system, and the challenges I have faced in making it accessible to users with minimal experience with computers.
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Speaker: Claudine Chionh
Claudine Chionh
I am a self-taught programmer/sysadmin; my background is in history and medical humanities. I work at the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, primarily on the Founders and Survivors project, which will follow the lives of Australian families from the convict transportation period to the First World War. I am especially interested in the use of web technologies to enable collaboration between academics and the wider community, and in connecting with others working in humanities computing in Australia.
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