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Editors' Choice: Old Bailey Proceedings Part 1 - Offences
By: Sharon Howard
If you know me, the topic of this first post may come as unsurprising but also a bit eyebrow-raising. “Sharon, you’ve been working on the Old Bailey Online project (OBO) since forever. Aren’t you bored with it yet?” Meanwhile, those who don’t know me might more likely be asking, “What are the Old Bailey Proceedings?”…
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Editors' Choice: Immersed in the Past - Room-Scale Virtual Reality for Public History
By: Sean Kheraj
Last year, I wrote about my early impressions of the possible uses of virtual reality technology for public history and history education. I also led a session in my fourth-year digital history class on virtual reality and its potential for generating a sense of historical presence, an ability to simulate the sensation of standing in…
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Editors' Choice: How the EU's Copyright Reform Threatens Open Source
By: Glyn Moody
Open Source and copyright are intimately related. It was Richard Stallman's clever hack of copyright law that created the General Public License (GPL) and, thus, free software. The GPL requires those who copy or modify software released under it to pass on the four freedoms. If they don't, they break the terms of the GPL…
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Editors' Choice: Evaluating Digital Humanities Beyond the Tenure Track
By: Beth Seltzer
This post (and its partner post on Evaluating Digital Humanities Beyond the Tenure Track Part 2: For Employers) continues a series of blog posts from the MLA Committee on Information Technology about evaluating work in the digital humanities. (See Amanda Visconti’s post on digital dissertations and Shawna Ross’s explanation for the series.) I’ve taken on…
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