Episode 10: Digital Technologies and Environmental History
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How have online digital technologies changed environmental history research, communication, and teaching? This episode of the podcast explores this question in the context of the recent NiCHE Digital Infrastructure API Workshop held in Mississauga, Ontario. Online-based Application Programming Interfaces or APIs are just one digital technology that holds the potential to change the way environmental historians access resources, analyze historical data, and communicate research findings. Within the past decade alone, the development of online digital technologies has offered the potential to transform historical scholarship.
This episode includes a round-table conversation with some leading figures in the realm of digital history as well as an interview with Jan Oosthoek, the producer and host of the Exploring Environmental History podcast.
Guests:
Dan Cohen
Shekhar Krisnhan
John Lutz
Jan Oosthoek
Works Cited:
Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
Environmental History Resources
Environmental History Teaching
MSc. Landscape, Environment & History
Music Cited:
“I Bid Ye Farewell” by AndyExpandy
“Crayonz” by AndyExpandy
“Expandimonium!” by AndyExpandy
“Pancakes” by AndyExpandy
Photo Credit:
“WebTrends 2007 / otro mapa de web 2.0” by ottonassar
Citations:
Kheraj, Sean. “Episode 10: Digital Technologies and Environmental History.” Nature’s Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast. 21 October 2009.

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