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Since 1994, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.
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Item George Mason Basketball Digital Memory Bank(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2006) Albers, Ken; Boggs, Jeremy; Greenberg, Josh; Hess, Meagan; Mellen, Roger; Safley, Jim; Shuman, Amanda; Velez, Heather; George Mason University CommunityWith their first trip to the Final Four in school history, Mason enjoyed in 2005-2006 what was undoubtedly its finest season. The Patriots won an NCAA Tournament game for the first time, set a school record with 27 wins, and defeated a pair of top-10 teams (Connecticut and North Carolina) for the first time in the history of the University. The Patriots' Cinderella story made George Mason the focus of national attention, spreading Mason Fever across the country. This site was designed to help fans become a part of the story of Mason's history. By posting online their memories and media files of this momentous run to the Final Four, fans around the world became a part of a living history. In its first month live, George Mason Basketball Digital Memory Bank registered a record number of visits. More than 219,629 site hits and more than 5,500 different visitors visited hoops.gmu.edu. 191 pictures and videos, and 202 stories were sent in by fans and friends before the site was closed to contributions. This memory bank was hosted at hoops.gmu.edu.Item #Occupy Archive: Archiving the Occupy Movement from 2011(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2013) Brennan, Sheila A.; Cooley, Mark; Brett, Megan; Ghajar, Lee Ann; Halabuk, James; Harmon, Lara; Kelly, Mills; Leon, Sharon; Luddington, Dan; Murray-John, Patrick; Raymond, Chris; Safley, Jim; Sanchez, Roberto; Shepherd, Ammon; Troyano, Joan Fragaszy; Wieringa, JeriCreated using a combination of Zotero and Omeka Classic, the Occupy Archive attempted to capture the many local Occupy movements which sprang up around the world in 2011, following the media coverage of Occupy Wall Street. The archive captures web sites and pages from 2011-2013 related to individual occupy movement groups, including Facebook pages and groups, MeetUp groups, and websites. The archive is hosted at https://occupyarchive.org.Item Open Source Archive(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2005)The Open Source Historical Archive (OSHA) was intended to collect, preserve, and analyze the history of open source as a cultural movement, spanning both free/libre and open source software and broader examples of commons-based peer production. The project's interests embraced well-known "open source" projects such as Linux and Wikipedia as well as much smaller and sometimes less-successful efforts. It was particularly interested in gathering the memories and commentaries of participants in these projects, as these in-the-trenches "oral histories" are often overlooked by historians, as well as other historical materials--email correspondence, manifestos, newsgroup postings, and even material culture--not collected elsewhere. Its first project focused on the massive open-source encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The goal was to gather and preserve the accounts and perspectives of some of the tens of thousands of people who participated in this remarkably successful project. It conducted interviews using variousmedia as well as solicited memories via an online survey. The Open Source Historical Archive grew out the work of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and especially its Echo (Exploring and Collecting History Online--Science, Technology, Industry) project, which sponsored a number of online collecting efforts in the history of science and technology as well as the massive September 11 Digital Archive. OSHA received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It was hosted at http://opensourcearchive.org.