It’s interesting that Jacobs and Piper offer different explanations for the diminished role of textual commentary in intellectual life. Jacobs traces it to a shift in cultural attitudes, particularly our recent, post-Romantic embrace of self-expression and originality at the expense of humility and receptiveness. Tacitly, he also implicates the even more recent, post-modern belief that the written word is something to be […]
Alan Jacobs has written seventy-nine theses on technology for disputation. A disputation is an old technology, a formal technique of debate and argument that took shape in medieval universities in Paris, Bologna, and Oxford in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In its most general form, a disputation consisted of a thesis, a counter-thesis, and a string […]
Yesterday I was fortunate to be able to attend a session offered by the Authors Alliance that was hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. As part of this session the Alliance announced the availability of a new guide that covers issues around rights reversion for authors who have published books. The presentation placed this […]
Michigan State University is recruiting a Digital Library Programmer, Librarian I. Reporting to the Head of the Digital and Multimedia Center, we are looking for a creative Librarian who will plan, code, test, and implement technologies and systems that promote and advance the Library’s mission of preservation, creation, transmission and application of knowledge. As part […]
Are you (or know of) a graduate student or a postdoctoral researchers at a higher education institution in the United States (US), or an early career researchers at a US-based research institutions who graduated in the last three years with a relevant master’s or PhD degree, with an interest and commitment to data sharing and […]
[…]Until recently, the collection and maintenance of this structured data was a completely manual process. For years, overnight contractors have entered recipes, dropdown by dropdown, into a gray and white web form that lives in our content management system (CMS). Since the database breaks down each ingredient by name, unit, quantity and comment, an average […]
C. P. Snow’s The Two Cultures (1959) began a critical debate about the role of the humanities in an increasingly scientific world. It was also the receipt of such enormous criticism that Snow later wrote The Two Cultures: A Second Look (1963). In the last few months David Armitage and I have experienced a technologically-accelerated version […]
From the report: We are posting here a high-level summary of the outcome of a series of conversations regarding the CFI Cyberinfrastructure Initiative among Canadian Digital Humanists. The conversations emerged from CSDH/SCHN consultations that began in the Spring of 2014. The document tries to reflect the priorities and areas of emphasis that have emerged from these […]
From the announcement: The Digital Production Coordinator works closely with the Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Publishing to support the growth and success of the library’s new digital publishing program. S/he manages a variety of projects, working both with born-digital objects and with physical materials, to produce high-quality digital publications in multiple formats. S/he […]
From the post: A little bit of knowledge about GIS and geospatial visualization goes a long way, and is useful across a variety of disciplines, including social sciences, business, humanities and environmental studies and sciences. If you are into open data (who isn’t?) and you like maps and / or data visualization (who doesn’t?!) […]
