Digital Humanities

23
Nov

Benchmarking Open Source: Measuring Success by "Low End" Adoption

In an article about Kuali adoption, the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Campus Computing Project director, Kenneth C. Green as
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19
Nov

Archiving Social Media

In an article posted yesterday under the title 5 Ways Social Media Will Change Recorded History, Mashable co-editor Ben Parr
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16
Oct

3 Innovation Killers in Digital Humanities

Here's a list of three questions one might overhear in a peer review panel for digital humanities funding,
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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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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
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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16
Sep

The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good

Inspired in part by THATCamp, the Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good is now open for applications. Co-hosted by
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15
Jun

One Week, One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising

I'm very happy to report that CHNM has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the
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06
Apr

But is it scholarship?

When asked if his undeniably useful and creative work is really science, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor Luis von Ahn