22
Mar
Things of History, History of Things
I have just started listening to an new podcast from the BBC, A History of the World in 100 Objects,
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Museums
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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23
Oct
An Unexpected Honor
Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum
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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03
Apr
Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians
Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast.
Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton's February
27
Mar
Briefly Noted: Creative Commons Choices; Radical Transparency; Presidential Sex
Creative Commons has released a statistical analysis of the licensing choices of Flickr users. My summary: most people are happy
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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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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
09
Mar
Briefly Noted for March 9, 2009
This year CHNM and the American Historical Association will be pleased to award the first Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in