I
shouldn’t be so gullible to images and it was the above image that caught my
eye and introduced me to a new app, Clio. You can download the app via links on
this page (also check out the video!).
Clio is
your guide to the history around you. We have 11404 historical entries from all
across the country… What will you discover about your city, town or
neighborhood?
You can learn more about the app and how it came to be via this article on the blog of the American Historical Association -- Delivering History through a Smartphone App: An Interview with Clio’s David Trowbridge.
What inspired you to create Clio?
The idea hit me as I was attempting to “discover” a city in those few hours we allow ourselves while attending conferences. I was curious about each building and monument, but in most cases, I did not have enough information to perform a useful Google search. After a few searches and a dozen pop-up ads, I gave up and decided to find something to eat. That search was easy, of course, thanks to mobile apps that offer concise and useful information about restaurants and businesses.
The idea hit me as I was attempting to “discover” a city in those few hours we allow ourselves while attending conferences. I was curious about each building and monument, but in most cases, I did not have enough information to perform a useful Google search. After a few searches and a dozen pop-up ads, I gave up and decided to find something to eat. That search was easy, of course, thanks to mobile apps that offer concise and useful information about restaurants and businesses.
Want to help provide content to Clio? Whether you are a student, part of a participating institution, or just a regular person, you can register with Clio and start contributing and editing entries. Another example of crowdsourcing at its best!
If you’ve installed Clio, tell us what you think?
If you’ve registered with Clio, share your impressions on contributing and editing entries and tell us about the ones you entered.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
copyright © National Genealogical
Society, 3108 Columbia Pike, Suite 300, Arlington, Virginia 22204-4370. http://www.ngsgenealogy.org.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NGS does not imply endorsement of
any outside advertiser or other vendors appearing in this blog. Any opinions
expressed by guest authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the
view of NGS.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Republication of UpFront articles
is permitted and encouraged for non-commercial purposes without express
permission from NGS. Please drop us a note telling us where and when you are
using the article. Express written permission is required if you wish to
republish UpFront articles for commercial purposes. You may
send a request for express written permission to [email protected]. All republished
articles may not be edited or reworded and must contain the copyright statement
found at the bottom of each UpFront article.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Think your friends, colleagues, or
fellow genealogy researchers would find this blog post interesting? If so,
please let them know that anyone can read past UpFront with NGS posts or subscribe!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Suggestions for topics for future UpFront with NGS posts are always welcome. Please send any
suggested topics to [email protected]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unless indicated otherwise or
clearly an NGS Public Relations piece, Upfront
with NGS posts are
written by Diane L Richard, editor, Upfront
with NGS.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Want to learn more about
interacting with the blog, please read Hyperlinks, Subscribing and Comments -- How to
Interact with Upfront with NGS Blog posts!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No comments:
Post a Comment