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Digital Humanities

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
1 min read
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
19
Mar

Briefly Noted: Universal Museum APIs; Raw Data Now!; Publish or Perish

Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, London (where I'm a research fellow, incidentally) points to
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17
Mar

Thinking the Unthinkable

Clay Shirky's widely circulated post, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, has got me thinking about the "unthinkable&
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13
Mar

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

GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters has some advice on bridging the gap between institutional and open source cultures. Useful