For the second blog post I examined the Hurricane Katrina Digital Memory Bank website . This website purpose is to provide, “ electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital records of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita..” The website allows readers to easily navigate through the information provided on the site. One of the unique features on the Hurricane Katrina Digital Memory Bank site is the ability for readers to contribute personal artifacts and special memories about these storms. Allowing readers to participate in the unfolding process of building the historical archives about these storms, is a unique feature of this site. Users of this site have open access to donate archival information about their experience of the storm through the website Dropbox plugin. The Dropbox plugin allow users to upload data and share their perspective of the tragic events of both of these horrific hurricanes that devastated many communities and cities along the Gulf Coast. The Dropbox plugin allow users to share their stories within three categories ( stories, audio or images). The additional ability to add descriptions to items along with specifying the source of the material is a bonus feature of the formatting of material within this cite. Historians and other academicians will love the citations which are listed under many of the archival documents on this site. Follow this link http://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/45904 to view citation example.
The site also is a very collaborative effort with other scholarly organization to promote the evolving public history archive on hurricane Katrina and Rita. The primary intellectual organization which provided the technical and scholarly guidance for the digital history project were Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans. For more information on this site please visit the Hurricane Katrina Digital Memory Bank website www.hurricanearchive.org/ .
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