Browsing TIMEA - Travelers in the Middle East Archive by Issue Date
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Digital History in the Classroom
(2007-12-18)In June, 2007, Lisa Spiro gave a workshop on digital history for world history instructors participating in the AP Summer Institute. The presentation discusses the following topics: Frameworks for Teaching (Digital) History; Finding and Evaluating Information; Seeing History: Visual Culture in the Classroom; Viewing History as It Unfolds: Video; ... -
The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) & Geography
(2007-06-29)How can GIS help scholars to understand the history of travel? How can GIS tools work in tandem with digitized archival materials? The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is addressing such questions by building a digital archive of resources relating to Westerners’ travel to Egypt and other parts of the Middle East in the nineteenth and ... -
TIMEA User Testing Report
(2007-05-01)Minmin Yang, a PhD student in Psychology at Rice University whose research focuses on usability and user testing, describes the results of user testing conducted for the TIMEA project in April 2006 on an initial version of the TIMEA user interface. The paper includes details on the process used to perform the test and the results of the testing. -
TIMEA User Testing Protocol
(2007-05-01)The TIMEA team used this script to administer usability tests on an earlier version of the TIMEA web site in April 2006. The user testing protocol was designed in a collaboration among a usability expert and TIMEA project leaders. The user tests were administered after receiving Institutional Review Board (IRB) clearance. -
Using DSpace for Digitized Collections
(2007-02-06)As organizations adopt institutional repositories (IR) to store and make accessible scholarly materials, they are finding new and expanded uses for these powerful tools. Institutional repositories can archive not only “born-digital” assets such as pre-prints and dissertations, but also digitized materials such as books, photographs, and recordings. ... -
Leading Nineteenth Century Publishers of Travel Guidebooks to Egypt
(2007)Part of the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), this module describes the history of three of the leading publishers of travel guidebooks in the nineteenth century: John Murray and Sons, Thomas Cook Ltd., and Karl Baedeker. It focuses on guidebooks to Egypt and provides links to the full text of these books in TIMEA. -
TIMEA GIS Map Interface Tools
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Enabling Exploration: Travelers in the Middle East Archive
(2006-11-27)Describes the Travelers in the Middle East Archive, particularly the challenges faced in integrating DSpace, Connexions, and the ArcIMS GIS platform. -
The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) Project: Researching and Exploring the Middle East Through Online Maps
(2006-11-27)Describes the approach to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) taken by the Travlers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). -
Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA): Integrating Texts and Images in DSpace with GIS and Teaching Resources
(2006-10-30)Abstract and poster on Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), which was presented at Digital Humanities 2006. -
Studying Political Satire: "The Egyptian Red Book"
(2006)This course demonstrates how to conduct historical research through a case study of a nineteenth-century work of British political satire, "The Egyptian Red Book." It examines how to categorize historical documents, how to identify images of unknown figures, and how to decode satire from a different historical period. It will introduce a variety of ... -
Understanding Material Culture: Deciphering the Imagery of the "Souvenir of Egypt"
(2006)This course explores how to study material culture and political history through a series of research questions centered on the Souvenir of Egypt, a decorative silk from the nineteenth century that is included in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). A variety of images are depicted on the Souvenir of Egypt, including texts, flags, portraits ... -
Conducting Historical Research: The Case of "Oriental Cairo"
(2006)This course guides you through how to conduct historical research by conducting a case study on Douglas Sladen's "Oriental Cairo: City of the 'Arabian Nights'" (1911), a work included in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). It introduces some standard research techniques used by historians, such as establishing a subject's biography and ... -
History through the Stereoscope: Stereoscopy and Virtual Travel
(2006)Imagine that you are doing research on Egypt and come across a curious source: a book from 1905 called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, which comes with a set of 100 cards that display two nearly identical photographs. What are you to make of this resource, and how might you use it in research? What are these cards, and why do they have two images? ... -
Using and Creating TIMEA Educational Materials in Connexions
(2006)The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) has developed over 25 educational modules in Connexions to accompany its digital archive of texts, images and maps related to Western travel in the Middle East, particularly Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. "Using and Creating TIMEA Educational Materials in Connexions" explains ... -
Places in Egypt
(2006)Provides brief descriptions of significant places in Egypt that are represented in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) collection of digital texts, images and maps of Egypt. Includes major cities and archaeological sites in the regions popularly known as Upper, Lower, and Middle Egypt. -
Categorizing Historical Documents: What is a Red Book?
(2006)This module is a guide to the process of identifying what type of work you are researching and using that information to expand the potential of different research projects. You will be introduced to the process of categorizing the works you find in your research, locating similar and divergent works and using them in concert to contextualize the ... -
Project Standards and Guidelines
(2005)
