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Editors' Choice: Cited Loci of the Aeneid - Searching through JSTOR's content the classicists'…
By: Matteo Romanello and Ron Snyder
The sheer amount of data contained in JSTOR raises the question of what is the most effective way for scholars to search it. The answer to this question is inevitably going to be discipline-specific as scholars in different fields do have different strategies for retrieving bibliographic information. For students and scholars in Classics, for example,…
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Editors' Choice: Bridging the Academic-Public Divide Through Podcasts
By: Dan Cohen
[The text of my keynote at the Sound Education conference at Harvard on November 2, 2018. This was the first annual conference on educational and academic podcasts, and gathered hundreds of producers of audio and podcast listeners to discuss how podcasting can effectively and engagingly reach diverse audiences interested in a wide range of scholarly…
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Editors' Choice: The Uncanny Valley and the Ghost in the Machine - a discussion…
By: Dot Porter
This is a version of a paper I presented at the University of Kansas Digital Humanities Seminar, Co-Sponsored with the Hall Center for the Humanities on September 17, 2018. ... So this is great. We’re doing very important work making data about manuscripts available to the world, in ways that make it easy to reuse them,…
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Editors' Choice: “This is Fine” - Reading, Making, and Archiving Memes after November 2016
By: Jim McGrath
On October 18th, 2018, I presented a talk as part of “(Re)Active Public History,” a Twitter Mini-Con put on by the National Council on Public History. Here’s the abstract I submitted for the conference (which you can also find here): A cartoon dog sits with a cup of coffee in a room that is engulfed…
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