Nature’s Past Episode 10 – click to play | right click, ‘save as’ to download
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.
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Works Cited:
- Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
- Dan Cohen’s Website
- Digital Campus Podcast
- Heptanesian Archives
- Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
- NYPL Map Rectifier
- Environmental History Resources
- Environmental History Teaching
- MSc. Landscape, Environment & History
Music Credits:
- “I Bid Ye Farewell” by AndyExpandy
- “Crayonz” by AndyExpandy
- “Expandimonium!” by AndyExpandy
- “Pancakes” by AndyExpandy
- Dan Cohen
- Shekhar Krisnhan
- John Lutz
- Jan Oosthoek
Kheraj, Sean. “Episode 10: Digital Technologies and Environmental History.” Nature’s Past. 21 October 2009.

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