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==Jonathan's Diary -- Making OutHistory.org==
 
==Jonathan's Diary -- Making OutHistory.org==
  
 
===Priorities for the Week Starting Monday, June 23, 2008===
 
 
Created Monday, June 23, 2008
 
 
Last edited Monday, June 23, 2008 4:31
 
 
'''Jonathan'''
 
 
PRIORITIES:
 
 
*OutHistory Collective: Emailed re meeting next Sat.  Looks like meeting is happening. Tuesday send out notice.
 
 
*Fundraising: Look at Letter of Inquiry
 
 
*Budget: JNK look at. Try to understand. What do we have money to do.  Put budget on site? Why not?
 
 
*Dee Michel (librarian, category structure expert, friend): follow up on last week's emails from him.  Get names of two library people he thought might work on this site.
 
 
*History of the Present:
 
:(1) AIDS History: JNK emailed Tim McCaskell about beginning an entry on the history of AIDS and the response to it in Canada. Tim said he would.
 
 
:(2) Marriage History: Lawyers who write historical articles.
 
 
:(3) Gays in the Military. JNK email Aaron Belkin, head of Palm Institute.  See if he can provide this history.
 
 
:(4) Transgender History.  Someone to start this, direct it?
 
 
:(5) Companeras -- contact editor. Will she put stuff on site?
 
 
:(6) History of Bisexual Organizing; Bibliog.
 
 
:(7) Legal History? Sodomy laws?
 
 
*Credit for work done on OutHistory.org?  Can we provide this as a way of encouraging work on the site.
 
 
*Exhibit Titles: Last week JNK added dates to exhibit titles to set standard.  Check over these formats.  Check that new titles work with Exhibit list, Main Page list of Exhibits.
 
 
*Wurttemberg: add pictures. add categories. anything else? Ask for photo of Woodcock.
 
 
*Terminology: republish section of that old book.  Medical journal that includes terms? Get someone to direct this?
 
 
*Scanning, OCR. Can we pay someone else to do this. See Budget.
 
 
NON-PRIORITY
 
 
*Search Timeline: should its name be changed to something like "Search month-day- year"? What best describes that search?  Lauren feedback?
 
 
*Search"Time era".  Should we call this: "Search by era" or "Search by period"? Lauren feedback?
 
 
*Recycling, repurposing, republishing out of print articles and books over which authors have rights.  The gay press is full of history articles that should be MORE READILY AVAILABLE ON THE WEB. MAKING INFO MORE READILY AVAILABLE is one of the big functions. D'Emilio is an example. List his future contributions. Add, talk about this on the site. 
 
 
*Berube, Allan.  Create entry using D'Emilio's piece published in Gay and Lesbian Review. Scan photos of Allan and his friends for use on the site.
 
 
*Joe Touchette: Contact him and go see his pictures. Tape interview?  Focus? Release?
 
 
*Maurice G.: Mementos of San Francisco history. JNK talk to Steven Palmer and David Breitkopf about this SF history entry.
 
 
*Browse by Topic and Browse by Type of Resource Format. Put this on Main Page as way users can learn what's on site. Browse entry titles.  Browse categories?
 
 
*History blog with guest bloggers?  About working on the site?  About problems in LGBTQH history?
 
 
*"LGBTQH"--I just started using this today, to include heterosexual history. OK?
 
 
*Start entry: Zap! Art and the Gay Revolution, 1969-2008
 
 
*Scan "Melville's Secret Sex Text
 
 
 
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'''Lauren'''
 
 
*Scanning. OCR
 
:Scanning and OCR (optical character recognition) lesson from Lynley if she can do it, or maybe someone in the office can help you.  The instructions for this and everything else should be written in detail and clearly on the Help page under "Scanning." and "Optical Character Recognition processing." or some title like that.  I only put the scanning process in for Macs.  I got it from a New York Times article about a month ago.
 
 
*Work for OutHistory v. work for CLAGS. discuss
 
 
*Learning how to create a title and page?
 
 
*figuring out your priorities.
 
 
* Barbara Grier's The Lesbian in Literature. I don't think that all of this text has been entered and OCRed. It is probably two big a document to fit on one entry space so we need to put it up in sections, I think.
 
 
And there seems to be two different versions on the site of the first pages.  One is searchable and one is not, I recall.  I think that there's no reason to include the non-searchable one. I think we should get rid of it.  Why don't you email Lynley about this and ask her where we are with adding all of it. I have lost track.
 
 
This bibliography seems to me an example of a very useful kind of resource because it's coding system give researchers some idea of the quantity and even import of the of lesbian references in works of fiction that have no index.  I want to add a note about  this to the top of the
 
 
*Fundraising research?
 
 
*Mondays are a good day for us to check in with each other when you get to the office, or when you get this email.
 
 
Probably a phone talk would be good as you get to know the routines.  I'm at home.  Jonathan
 
 
 
 
===Priorities for the week starting Monday, June 16, 2008===
 
 
Created: Monday, June 16, 2008, 11:57 am
 
 
Last edited:  Tuesday,  June17, 2008, 8:22 am
 
 
*Jonathan
 
:Phone talk Monday morning with Dee Michel about overview of categorizing issues.  He is sending written summary which Jonathan will edit and send back to Dee, get his response and then post on OutHistory, in the "About" section on "Operation of OutHistory.org" (to be created).  Also, added Peronnel categories to the About section.
 
 
:Meet at CLAGS at 1 pm on Tuesday to discuss fundraising. Prep: look at my notes on fundraising possibilities, Foundations, Individuals, Corporations.
 
 
:Meet with Lauren after Tuesday meeting at CLAGS.
 
 
:Call meeting of OutHistory.org Collective. Lauren, as part of your hours on this job, could you attend a meeting of people being on an OutHistory.org Collective, at my house in the West Village on Saturday, June 28, from 2 to 4 pm? Do you think that is a good time?  I will email you with this query.
 
 
:Email comment to Esther Newton about her intro to her curated section.
 
 
:Time searches. Century searchs?  Era searches? Discuss
 
 
*Lauren?
 
:Learning the ropes?  Scanning.  Writing down how to do everything in the Help section. Scanning at lowest dots per inch (dpi) that provide clear documents. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing for most documents to make them machine readable for keyword searches.
 
 
:email account at CUNY?
 
 
:What else? What are our priorities for this week?
 
 
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===Priorities for the Week Starting '''Monday, June 9, 2008'''===
 
 
Additions last made: Thursday, June 12, 4:27 pm
 
 
*Jonathan
 
:finish colonial documents; contact Michael Warner?
 
:finish Wurttemberg essay
 
:get my photo collection back.
 
 
*Lauren should focus on getting to know the site's operation, function, codes, and content.
 
:Jonathan thinks that in the advanced "Time era" search there are too many choices, and confusing, and that perhaps there should only be one choice for each period, and that the periods should be consecutive. What does Lauren think?
 
:Lauren and Jonathan plan to have lunch next week?
 
 
 
Alphabetical notes below:
 
 
What are our priorities among the following items?
 
 
 
*'''Advertising'''
 
CUNY GC policy.  What kind of ads could we possibly get? And would advertisers go with having them in a separate section of for-profit and not-for-profit supporters?
 
 
 
*'''AHA Meeting of OutHistory Advisors'''
 
:JNK contact Karen Krahulik. Are we getting a meeting space at the AHA?
 
 
 
*'''Blog?'''
 
:Should we set up some sort of history blog, have different guest historian bloggers?
 
 
 
*'''Categories, Categorizing'''
 
:Dee Michel is looking at.
 
 
 
*'''Content'''
 
:How to inform users of all content types? Dee Michel working on this. NY Times and Village Voice content pages.
 
 
 
*'''Content credibility?'''
 
:Tension between anonymous public access sections, accountability, and tension between public access and credibility of evidence presented by named authors, some of whom have credentials and prestige.  Recognize that a hierarchy exists, then deal with it. Stress that clear, full citations to evidence are needed.
 
 
 
*'''Content Needed'''
 
:AIDS History (Visual AIDS has visual stuff)
 
:Asian American LGBTQ History
 
:Hispanic LGBTQ History (or should it be called Latina/o LGBTQ History?)
 
:Lesbian History (Email Liz Kennedy, Lila Rupp, Estelle Freedman, Lillian Faderman, etc.)
 
:Marriage: The History of LGBTQ Marriage. Email lawyers involved.
 
:Military: The "Gays in the Military" Issue--History. Email Aaron Belkin
 
:Newsworthy historical revelation for debut???? Would be great.
 
:Outreach to get the content we want rather than writing it ourselves.
 
:Presidents, U.S.: Buchanan. Collect evidence. Lincoln, Present all the evidence on the site.
 
 
 
*'''Content Possible'''
 
:Bibliographies. Largest free on line list. Annotated. Categorized. Enlist authors and publishers?
 
:Exhibits planning. Same-sex intimacy in U.S. advertising. Affectionate men and affectionate women photo collections. Books. Collectors. Ed C, Mitchell, Guy in NJ?, authors of books.
 
:John D'Emilio's piece on Allan Berube, with large collection of pictures of Allan that no one else has. Scan and upload them from my house?
 
:LGBTQ History and Biological Determinism
 
:Local LGBTQ Histories
 
:Popular content categories? Entertainment, Religion, Sports, Travel
 
:Review the site, review an article, review a book, review a historical movie, TV program, etc.
 
 
 
*'''Content Promised'''
 
:Tavia
 
:John D:
 
:JNK African American biblio on old laptop
 
 
*'''Contest?'''
 
:Should we have contests for the best original research, photo, visual art work, etc?
 
 
*'''Controversial entries policy?'''
 
:Child Pornography
 
:Feminism and Pornography
 
:Explicit sexual description
 
 
 
*'''Domain Names'''
 
:Buy OutHistory.org.us  ?  Buy other major countries?
 
 
 
*'''Editing Policy?'''
 
This came up for Jonathan in regard to Esther Newton's students exhibit on Lesbian history.  I think the title should be changed to something like "Lesbianism in the United States in the 20th Century." Also, is it OK to break up the long paragraphs into smaller ones for web reading, to make them look less formiddable? What about copy edits for clarity and grace?
 
 
*'''Fellowships to create entries'''
 
:Deadline?  Put on Upcoming on News page
 
 
 
*'''Functions, site'''
 
:Should we add a What's New? on the site function to the red bar? And can it operate automatically to list everything new?
 
 
 
*'''Funding of OutHistory.org?'''
 
:Howard Gilman Foundation?
 
:John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation?
 
:Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts
 
:New York State Council on the Arts
 
:Meeting soon?
 
:Grass roots fundraising via the web? How does Obama do it?
 
:Put the budget on line on the site? 
 
 
 
*'''Gay TV -- Cable--History Channel'''
 
:Tie ups? Study how they do history.
 
 
 
*'''Help'''
 
:Write up how to do everything on Help Page. This is MAJOR.
 
 
 
*'''How to:''' Research LGBTQ History.
 
:Find out what is known already. Don't reinvent the wheel.
 
 
 
*'''Integrating LGBTQ History'''
 
:in the U.S. History curriculum; suggestions?
 
 
 
*'''Internships'''
 
 
 
*'''Legal'''
 
Email Ropes and Gray for advice schedule
 
 
 
*'''LGBTQ Art History'''
 
:"Art and the Gay Revolution" entry: Start bibliography
 
:Art inspired by history as illustrations for website. (Marget Long, Nathaniel Siegel)
 
 
 
*'''Logo Idea'''
 
:The Month Is: June
 
:The Day Is: 9
 
:The Year Is: 2008
 
 
 
*'''Mentoring system?'''
 
:Can we provide this for unexperienced researchers, writers?
 
 
 
*'''My History'''
 
:Should we add a function with this name to "my" section of the red bar? The idea would be to encourage people to write little mini-histories of themselves, encouraging the idea that everyone is important.  We would put a little note to that effect at the top of the section. History from the ground up. History of "ordinary" people. Memoir can be powerful. First person testimony is powerful. Is this different than blogging?
 
 
 
*'''Networking'''
 
:Should we establish specific easy ways that researchers interested in particular topics can network with each other?  If so, how?  This could turn out to be very popular, JNK thinks.
 
 
 
*'''Operation of the site'''
 
:Make it transparent. Make the policy transparant. Make who is responsible for what transparant. Put the budget on the site. Put the job functions on the site.
 
 
 
*'''OutHistory's Character'''
 
:Accesibility principle: Making data and ideas freely and readily accessible even though they are "accessible" if you know where and what to look for, have time, access to a major library, etc.
 
:Collaborative
 
:Participatory
 
:Open
 
:Digitable Democracy
 
:History from the Community Up
 
:Changeable
 
:Transparent
 
:Prototype should provide an exciting sampling suggesting the site's diverse, vast possibilities
 
:Community-based history and historians
 
:Interactive?  How to make it more interactive?
 
:Freely accessible
 
:Educational (but this is such a deadly word); Public Education function of site
 
:Institutionally-based in order to assure continuity over the long term.
 
:Popular and Scholarly!
 
:Two parts: content by named authors and content provided by anyone with data, documents, and citations to share.
 
:Present site is a PROTOTYPE with a sampling of the wide variety of content and types of written, audio, and visual materials that can eventually go on it.
 
:What defines an LGBTQ history site as opposed to an LGBTQ encyclopedia? or an LGBTQ archive? JNK thinks we need to keep stressing this and figuring out how to actively, creatively make the site historical.
 
:Repurposing old historical work for a new web audience. Taking out of print articles and books that no one else will make as readily accessible and making them readily accessible.
 
 
 
*'''Publicity Volunteer?'''
 
:JNK email Sarah
 
 
*'''Red Bar Listings'''
 
:Rearrange the listings within each section alphabetically unless there is a pressing reason not to.
 
:Are all the functions listed necessary? Could some be placed elsewhere on the site? For instance, some of the one's to do with the operation of the site: Block User
 
:Should some red bar functions be renamed?
 
:What's the dif between Links and What Links Here?
 
:Should the sections be titled as in Wikipedia to say what each of them represents?
 
 
*'''Save Page, etc. placement is awk'''
 
 
*'''Sites to Learn From'''
 
:New York Historical Society
 
:blog sites David recommended (find his list)
 
 
 
*'''Stub'''
 
:Urge users to create stub categories if they want to know about a subject/topic and there is no entry for it. "If you don't see something, write something."
 
 
 
*'''Uploads'''
 
Do we have the capacity now to upload audio and video or movies? We should have at least one sample of each on the site by the time we go on line. By the way, what happened to the Evelyn Hooker video?
 
 
 
*'''Yochai Benkler,''' The Wealth of Netowrks. (A manifesto for online collaboration mentioned in the NYT recently)
 
 
END DIARY
 
  
  

Revision as of 15:51, 26 June 2008

Jonathan's Diary -- Making OutHistory.org


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JNK is storing this here: from notes in GAH or GLA

MERRYMOUNT About 1626, according to William Bradford, Thomas Morton and the other male settlers at Merrymount were guilty of "great licentiousness." The men's consorting with Indian women is mentioned, along with "worse practices" associated with ancient Roman feasts. Bradford said that Morton and his men "set up a maypole,drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together like so many fairies, or furies, rather; and worse practices. As if they had anew revived and celebrated the feasts of the Roman goddess Flora, or the beastly practices of the mad Bac-' chanalians." Subject for research: It would be interesting to know just what feasts and "beastly practices" Bradford had in mind; see his Of Plymouth Plantation, pp. 204-06; Oaks, 'Things Fearful,' " p. 269.

Alphabetize category entries by last name You simply add this snippet of text above the category: {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolbe, Jim}}

Let me just mention that the link text donesn't necessarily need to be the same as the article title. I can link to Jim Kolbe's article for example by typing [[Jim Kolbe|Jim Kolbe's article]] (text before vertical bar is what it links to, text after the vertical bar is what it says on the page). You can also automatically sign your name when you write something on the discussion pages (like I did below) by typing four tilde characters (~~~~). The will turn into a signature stamp when you save or preview.

Ebukva 12:30, 8 November 2007 (PST)

I was here. JNK Jnk 12:58, 19 November 2007 (PST)


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Ebukva 14:31, 10 January 2008 (PST)