Unit 4

Unit 4

Attempt at chronologically ordering the web sites:

I'm not sure to what extent I can use the copyright dates to put these in order. There are sometimes dates within the sites, too, to give some clue. But I'm also making some judgements based on what's on the site--just text or text with photos vs. 3D tours and reconstructions of sites that are long gone.

1. Avalon - legal site just has text documents and a 2008 copyright; looks old because it is so simple, but maybe it only dates to 2008?
2. Valley of the Shadow - the copyright is from 1993-2007, but it has more complexity than Avalon, not sure if the copyright means anything was online at that point--maybe just that some information that is on the site now was copyrighted in 1993?
3. American Memory was launched in 1994 - it isn't as flashy as later sites, but I find the recorded interviews very interesting and ability to search through so much
4. Dickinson Electronic Archives was originally launched in 1994, but it has been updated over time. It has the scrolling banner of "headlines" and lots of text, pictures and photos.
5. Romantic Circles is an online refereed journal that goes back to at least 1996, but it has clearly been maintained and updated over time; it has the scrolling banner and is pretty complex with lots of drawings and paintings and various parts to the site. It is similar to the Dickinson site.
6. Lifeouttacontext - has dates of 1999-2015 - it's got text, photos, tweets, while Eye Level may be later (2005-2017?) and has a video
7. Hawthorne in Salem has photos and text and says it was made available in 2002
8. Persepolis has a copyright of 2003 and says the last update was 2008--lots of photos and 3D, but not as sophisticated as later 3D sites
9. Hurricane Digital Memory Bank looks like it's from 2005, based on notes on the site--2005 is when Hurricane Katrina occurred--there are images and a tagged map
10. April 16 Archive - Primarily photos and text, 2011 copyright but the mass shooting occurred in 2007
11. Digital Karnak has a copyright of 2008--it's very interactive with a sliding timeline, animations, videos, use of Google maps, and diagrams of models; there's a lot of detail on this site
12. Amiens Cathedral - I couldn't get all of this to work (e.g., Quicktime movies) or find any dates. I wondered why so many of the photos are so small.
13. Oyez - site on Supreme Court looks as if it has posts going back as far as 2010; there's quite a bit going on including 3D tours of the court building; high resolution photos; 
14. Shenandoah at War is pretty sophisticated with a sliding timeline, paintings, text, link to a Google map, copyright 2017 but an article dated at least as early as 2015
15. Lascaux - I didn't find a copyright date, but this is very impressive with its 3D simulations of the cave system and paintings.
16. Shenandoah at War has dates 2015-2017--has a timeline, paintings, text, link to Google map and is pretty interactive
17. Journey through Hallowed Ground has a copyright of 2017 and is pretty complex and polished looking

My suggestions for other sites are:

1. Northern Virginia--sophisticated, polished site--http://www.mountvernon.org/
2. Also Virginia--www.history.org for Colonial Williamsburg has a whole list of different multimedia and interactive games and puzzles
3. When I was looking at Lascaux, I ended up seeing that the French government has some very, very cool, sophisticated and informative sites-- for example on World War I,  http://archeologie1418.culture.fr/ and more at http://archeologie.culture.fr/