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.

Thinking the Unthinkable

17 Mar 2009 3 min read Digital Humanities

Clay Shirky's widely circulated post, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, has got me thinking about the "unthinkable" in humanities scholarship. According to Shirky, in the world of print journalism,

Briefly Noted: FOSS Culture; Digital Humanities Calendar; Guardian API; WWW Turns 20

13 Mar 2009 Briefly Noted

GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters has some advice on bridging the gap between institutional and open source cultures. Useful reading for digital humanities centers and cultural heritage institutions looking to participate in

Briefly Noted for March 9, 2009

09 Mar 2009 Briefly Noted

This year CHNM and the American Historical Association will be pleased to award the first Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History in memory of our late friend and inspiration, Roy Rosenzweig. The

Motto

04 Mar 2009 Digital Humanities

I came across this old quote last night in finishing up David Post's In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace. It seems a fair approximation

Brand Name Scholar

26 Feb 2009 1 min read Digital Humanities

Scholars may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact that in the 21st century's fragmented media environment, marketing and branding are key to disseminating the knowledge and