Notes on Creating a Web Site for HSTAS 466

 

Getting started

Go to UW Computing Page on Web Publishing

Note: You have to password protect your site, in order to claim the exemptions from copyright restriction provided under the Teach Act, described below.

Dangers of Copyright Violation

See The UW Copyright Connection

Or Synopsis, including uses under Teach Act, which allows you to use copyrighted materials in a classroom setting.

Developing Content

Document Types

Think about document types. The UW Libraries Codes for Electronic Resource Types

Most useful:

Bibliographies, resources lists

film, web sites, bibliographies

Eg Bibliography of Vientamese Literature

Asia Society's Guide to Online Bibliographies Has good examples of serious student-generated bibliographies

Directories

NGO groups, religious organizations, social service agencies

Data sets

Statistical data, economic conditions, regional demography, religious observance

Electronic texts and documents

Full text resources: speeches, declarations of church or government, parliamentary acts, regulations

Image Collections

Photographs, graphics, cartoons

See Corbis Photographic Achive

Francois Sully Collection, as example

Instructional Guides and Tutorials

Course outlines, selected documents and references

Journal Abstracts

Annotated lists of key articles from important journals

Maps

Political boundaries, ethnic groups, religious distribution

Musical Recordings

Religious music, popular interpretations of traditional songs

News Resources

Examples of news coverage of events, ceremonies, rites.

Non-Musical Recordings

Sermons, religious speeches

Primary Sources

Could be same as electronic texts. Illuminated manuscripts, historical sources.

Subject Parameters

Example: Tay Son Uprising

Looking for web sites by subject:

Portal to Asian Internet Resources

Geographical Parameters

Online Burma/Myanmar Library

Evaluation of Web Resource

See Libraries Web site on Evaluating Web Sites

Which has link to Berkeley site on Evaluating Web Pages