Planning a Digital Public History Project

This workplan developed as part of the DoingDH 2016 curriculum outlines the processes for planning a digital public history project using a series of worksheets and guided questions.

Follow the outline & find worksheets: http://bit.ly/oah-dph Make a copy of these and save them to your Google Drive for use later.

 

  1. What is the big idea? What are your goals? (worksheet)
  2. Is anyone else doing this? Start an environmental Scan (worksheet)
  3. Identify Audiences and Constituencies (worksheet)
  4. Conduct User Research and Craft Personas (worksheet)
  5. Assess Resources and Content (worksheet)
  6. Developing and Maintaining Partnerships (PDF)
  7. Pick a Platform & Evaluate Technical Infrastructure (worksheet)
  8. Design and build content together, iteratively (worksheet)
  9. Test and evaluate with audiences and stakeholders constantly (worksheet)
  10. Communicating with and Involving Audiences & Stakeholders (worksheet)

Many of these issues are discussed in great detail in Building Histories of the National Mall: http://mallhistory.org/Guide