{"id":458,"date":"2012-01-03T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/01\/03\/participating-in-historypin\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:44","slug":"participating-in-historypin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/01\/03\/participating-in-historypin\/","title":{"rendered":"Participating in Historypin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LxwNEnSfT-k\/TwM6l85oJiI\/AAAAAAAAALM\/poUu2RdaIcU\/s1600\/historypin.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"257\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LxwNEnSfT-k\/TwM6l85oJiI\/AAAAAAAAALM\/poUu2RdaIcU\/s400\/historypin.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 12.0px Helvetica;margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 12.0px Helvetica;margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px\">Launched in 2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historypin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Historypin<\/a> is a historic photo mapping website and mobile app that aims to &#8220;create a digital history of the world&#8221; through user-generated content. Special Collections at Langsdale recently added a small sampling of our digitized photographs to Historypin &#8212; you can check out our contributions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historypin.com\/profile\/view\/ubarchives\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Don&#8217;t forget to explore the map or view the photos in Google&#8217;s street view! &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 12.0px Helvetica;margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height: 14.0px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 12.0px Helvetica;margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px\">So far, our images on Historypin include markets, schools, firehouses, landmarks, public housing, and residential areas from 20th century Baltimore.&nbsp;We selected some photos where the comparison to the present is nearly identical, and some where the urban landscape has been radically changed.&nbsp;For archivists at UB, one of the fun things about this project is repurposing existing digital content (in this case, photographs that were already scanned) for use in new ways.&nbsp;We&#8217;ll continue to add digital content about Baltimore&#8217;s history to applications, projects, and websites in the new year, and we hope you&#8217;ll add your voice to collaborative sites like Historypin, too!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in 2010, Historypin is a historic photo mapping website and mobile app that aims to &#8220;create a digital history of the world&#8221; through user-generated content. Special Collections at Langsdale recently added a small sampling of our digitized photographs to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/01\/03\/participating-in-historypin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Participating in Historypin<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,504,3,505],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}