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.

Truth (happily) stranger than fiction

11 Dec 2008 1 min read Politics

I recently finished rereading, for the first time in many years, one of my childhood favorites, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. I was immediately struck that the dates Bradbury imagined for

Omeka Wins MATC Award

08 Dec 2008 Omeka

I'm very happy to report that Omeka was honored with a $50,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration today. Congrats to the entire Omeka team and thanks to all the users

Omeka. Serious Web Publishing

11 Nov 2008 1 min read Omeka

Today at CHNM we're celebrating the general release of Omeka 0.10b and the relaunch of a redesigned Omeka.org. We also have a new tag line—"Omeka. Serious web

Briefly Noted for October 28, 2008

28 Oct 2008 1 min read Briefly Noted

The Oral History Association has launched a new and improved website, including a social network and an instructional wiki. Jim Spadaccini has a great post about the special kind of planning involved in

Hello (Linux) World

26 Oct 2008 1 min read Music

Feeling increasingly alienated by commercial software companies and increasingly uncomfortable with my absurd level of Mac lust, I finally decided this weekend to get off the Apple train and make the switch to