Elevator Pitch
Last week I had the pleasure of serving as facilitator at the first Mellon-funded Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI) in Chapel Hill. For the better part of the week five diverse teams of
Tom Scheinfeldt
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
What The New Yorker Got Wrong About Lawrence Lessig
In its October 13, 2014 article about Lawrence Lessig's Mayday PAC, The New Yorker writes:
In 2001, Lessig co-founded Creative Commons, an alternative copyright system that allows people to share their
Getting into Digital Humanities: A top-ten list
Today I'll be joining a roundtable discussion hosted by the New York Council for the Humanities for its incoming class of public humanities fellows. I was asked to prepare a "
Innovation, Use, and Sustainability
Revised notes for remarks I delivered on the topic of "Tools: Encouraging Innovation" at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Digital Platform summit last month at the New
The Dividends of Difference: Recognizing Digital Humanities' Diverse Family Tree/s
In her excellent statement of digital humanities values, Lisa Spiro identifies "collegiality and connectedness" and "diversity" as two of the core values of digital humanities. I agree with Lisa