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.

E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open

12 Oct 2009 2 min read Digital Humanities

During a discussion of e-book readers on a recent episode of Digital Campus, I made a comparison between Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod which I think more or less

Briefly Noted for October 9, 2009

09 Oct 2009 1 min read Briefly Noted

DSpace Reaches 700 Instances Worldwide — The DuraSpace blog is reporting that there are now more than 700 instances of DSpace. DuraSpace was founded earlier this year to support DSpace and Fedora, two leading

UVA Scholars' Lab Working to Connect Omeka and Fedora

09 Oct 2009 Omeka

The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia is working on a new plugin for Omeka that would connect an Omeka frontend to a Fedora repository backend. An early version of the

Briefly Noted for October 8, 2009

08 Oct 2009 Briefly Noted

Setback for GPO Digitization Program — Via DigitalKoans, the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) has announced on its listserv that it has been unable to make an award for its 2008 RFP to

Briefly Noted for October 7, 2009

07 Oct 2009 1 min read Briefly Noted

Deadline Set for Google Books Settlement — Judge Chin has set a deadline of November 9, 2009 for a revised settlement agreement between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.