Brennan, Sheila A.Kelly, Mills2015-08-202015-08-202009-03https://hdl.handle.net/1920/9808This case study offers insights into collecting and preserving history online that the team from the Center for History and New Media learned from building the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (http://hurricanearchive.org). The essay demonstrates how others can create digital collections that encourage public participation without losing the integrity of evidence collected or compromising the privacy of a contributor.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesCrowdsourcingDigital archivesNatural disastersDigital historyWhy Collecting History is Web 1.5Technical Report