Author Archives: Jack Dougherty

When Atlantic Cities journalist Emily Badger asked my MAGIC colleague Michael Howser to describe the 1934-to-present interactive aerial map viewer we created for the OnTheLine project, he told her that it was the “next best thing to a time machine.” … Continue reading →

We held a video conversation and broadcasted it live on Friday July 6th, 2012 from 12 noon to 1pm eastern time. We’re experimenting with Google+ Hangout video conferencing to communicate with colleagues from different locations about digital humanities projects. I … Continue reading →

Still working out many details, of course, but the redesigned Fall 2011 preview edition of On The Line is coming together. The biggest difference is that this version relies on conventional WordPress bottom-of-the-page commenting, supplemented with the experimental Highlighter plugin. … Continue reading →

Curtis Denton, Jon Pollack, and Michael Howser at UConn Libraries MAGIC have begun a series of posts that describe how we designed and created interactive maps for the OnTheLine project. The first in this series is Redlining in Hartford area, … Continue reading →

Many thanks to Bill Sullivan and Connecticut State Library colleagues for kindly offering to add the OnTheLine web-book preview to iConn’s list of freely accessible e-books