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.

Open Source Community and the Omeka Controlled Vocabulary Plugin

27 Apr 2010 1 min read Digital Humanities

I love open source. Why? Here's a fairly representative example. Following Patrick Murray-John's excellent post and bootstrapping of a new AjaxCreate plugin for Omeka, I speculated on the Omeka

Briefly Noted for April 23, 2010

23 Apr 2010 1 min read Briefly Noted

An Asset Bubble in Higher Ed? — Michael Feldstein (currently of Oracle and formerly of SUNY) argues that we may be seeing an asset bubble in higher education of the kind that recently burst

Briefly Noted for April 21, 2010

21 Apr 2010 Briefly Noted

edUi Call for Proposals — edUi has posted the CFP for its November 2010 conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. edUi provides a forum for user interaction and experience designers to talk about designing for institutions

Digital History and the Public History Curriculum

21 Apr 2010 2 min read HigherEd

A knowledge of digital history theories and methods is quickly becoming essential for public historians. More and more, digital history is a required part of the public history graduate curriculum. A panel at

Briefly Noted for April 8, 2010

08 Apr 2010 Briefly Noted

Teachinghistory.org's New Look — If you haven’t visited recently, take another look at CHNM’s National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) at teachinghistory.org. The NHEC team has spent several months