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Nobody cares about the library: How digital technology makes the library invisible (and visible) to scholars

22 Feb 2012 6 min read Blogs

There is a scene from the first season of the television spy drama, Chuck, that takes place in a library. In the scene, our hero and unlikely spy, Chuck, has returned to his

One Week, One Book: Hacking the Academy

21 May 2010 2 min read Digital Humanities

Dan Cohen and I have been brewing a proposal for an edited book entitled Hacking the Academy. Let's write it together, starting at THATCamp. And let's do it in

A Google Books Cautionary Tale

07 Oct 2009 Digital Humanities

This one made the rounds of Twitter earlier today thanks to Jo Guldi. This month Wired Magazine tells a cautionary tale for those following the progress of Google Books. Entitled "Google’s

Privatizing Holocaust History?

03 Oct 2009 1 min read Digital Humanities

For the past few years, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has undertaken a series of public-private digitization partnerships, especially with a company called Footnote.com. These partnerships provide NARA with free

SI and Flickr Commons

01 Oct 2009 1 min read Digital Humanities

Originally published in the journal Archival Science, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has just released under open access terms a report of the Institution’s experience with Flickr Commons. Written by Martin Kalfatovic, Effie