Museums

09
Sep
Briefly Noted for September 9, 2025

Briefly Noted for September 9, 2025

This week in my DMD 2010: History of Digital Culture class, I've been teaching the history and theory
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26
Aug
Briefly Noted: AI links for back-to-school

Briefly Noted: AI links for back-to-school

As a new semester begins, I'm pretty sure we're all thinking about how AI will affect
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22
Jul
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On

Yesterday I gave a talk on AI and archives at the Colby/Bates/Bowdoin Special Collections and Archives Staff Retreat.
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10
Jun
Jim Bennett, Digital Humanist

Jim Bennett, Digital Humanist

I've just returned from London, where I joined a celebration at the Science Museum of the life of
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27
May

Briefly Noted for May 27, 2021

I read Zach Carter's magisterial biography of John Maynard Keynes, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the
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29
May

Innovation, Use, and Sustainability

Revised notes for remarks I delivered on the topic of "Tools: Encouraging Innovation" at the Institute of Museum
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22
Aug

No Holds Barred

About six months ago, I was asked by the executive director of a prestigious but somewhat hidebound—I guess "
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02
Jun

For Your Listening Pleasure: History Conversations

A few years back I had the bright idea to launch a second podcast (Digital Campus being the first). It
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01
Sep

Omeka and Its Peers

As an open source, not-for-profit, warm-and-fuzzy, community service oriented project, we don't normally like to talk about market
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31
Mar

Rethinking Access

[This week and next I'll be facilitating the discussion of "Learning & Information" at the IMLS
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