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Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt

Connecticut
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
12
Oct

E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open

During a discussion of e-book readers on a recent episode of Digital Campus, I made a comparison between Amazon'
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09
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 9, 2009

DSpace Reaches 700 Instances Worldwide — The DuraSpace blog is reporting that there are now more than 700 instances of DSpace.
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09
Oct

UVA Scholars' Lab Working to Connect Omeka and Fedora

The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia is working on a new plugin for Omeka that would connect
08
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 8, 2009

Setback for GPO Digitization Program — Via DigitalKoans, the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) has announced on its listserv that
07
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 7, 2009

Deadline Set for Google Books Settlement — Judge Chin has set a deadline of November 9, 2009 for a revised settlement
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07
Oct

A Google Books Cautionary Tale

This one made the rounds of Twitter earlier today thanks to Jo Guldi. This month Wired Magazine tells a cautionary
06
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 6, 2009

Gmail Helps Spam Be More Annoying? — Yesterday Google began rolling out a new “feature” called “enhanced email” to some Gmail
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05
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 5, 2009

The Future of Libraries — Broadcasting from my very own neighborhood, local Washington DC NPR personality, Kojo Nmandi, hosted a special
03
Oct

Privatizing Holocaust History?

For the past few years, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has undertaken a series of public-private digitization partnerships,
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01
Oct

SI and Flickr Commons

Originally published in the journal Archival Science, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has just released under open access terms a report
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