Come Visit the Washington State Digital Archives Exhibit

I am off to Portland, where the Washington State Digital Archives is having an exhibit at the National Council on Public History Conference. Come and say hello to Lead Archivist Debbie Bahn and myself!

Call for Papers: 2010 National Council on Public History in Portland

The National Council on Public History is having its annual meeting in Portland next year. The conference is March 10-14, and is being held simultaneously with the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History.The Call for Papers is here.

This is a great conference and I hope we can get a good representation from northwest public historians and history institutions. Drop me a line if you would like to put something together! The deadline for proposals is just a moth away--June 30, 2009.

Platial: Demolished Buildings of PDX

Check this out: an interactive map of historic photos of now-demolished buildings in Portland. (I don't know why it is not centered!) Platial is a "social mapping" site where users can add photos and other items to an online map. A layer can be created by a single or by multiple users. Forsome other examples of how Platial can be used for interactive Web 2.0ish maps, see the Platial 2006 Map Awards.