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34 million visits

17.8 million visitors

200+ international domains

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RRCHNM Projects

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• Build Digital Collections
   

• Encourage inquiry & primary source-based learning
   

• Encourage sharing content, authority

• Create Online Exhibits
   

• Design Placed-based Narratives
  
   

• Develop Software & Tools
  to enable this work
  for ourselves and others

RRCHNM's Public Projects Team

• Train cultural heritage professionals to build on their own

Experienced Collaborators
as historians & technologists

User-generated Archives: http://911digitalarchive.org

http://911digitalarchive.org/smithsonian/

Object-based learning: http://objectofhistory.org

Contextualizing objects

Online Exhibits
   http://gulaghistory.org

Thematic exhibits with intro mini-documentaries & objects

Bittersweet Harvest: 
Virtual, Collaborative  Archive

http://braceroarchive.org/

Placed-based, mobile:

http://mallhistory.org

Mobile-first

Historical map layering

Explorations/Inquiry Questions

RRCHNM's Omeka
https://communityofgardens.si.edu/

Since 2007: Omeka.org

Data In/Data Out

A Liberian Journey: liberianhistory.org
Design for audience, accessibility, openness

Thank you!

We look forward to working together.

Sheila A. Brennan
Director of Strategic Initiatives, RRCHNM

sbrennan@gmu.edu