As I wrote in one of the early ProfHacker blog posts, it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan. This truth was brought home to me this semester in my teaching. About a month ago, students in my course on “Writing in Digital Environments” began experimenting with Storify, a social media curation tool we’ve covered before […]
An Agenda for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture First Meeting of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture Florence, 13-14 December 2012 Via dell’Arte della Lana, 1, 50123 Florence The Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture is passing through a crucial moment. After the important works and results reached by the […]
Hello Digital Historians, This year is flying by! With roughly two months left in the semester, we aim to stimulate discussion about the ways historians are engaging in the digital humanities through a series of eight blog posts. Over the next eight weeks we will cover Digital History topics divided into a two-part series. Series […]
While a number of legal issues colour contemporary approaches to, and practices of, digital preservation, it is arguable that intellectual property law, represented principally by copyright and its related rights, has been by far the most dominant, and often intractable, influence. It is thus essential for those engaging in digital preservation to understand the letter […]
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How should we understand the part played by code in digital media and learning? We are accustomed to arguments that digital media are affecting our existing practices of reading, looking, seeing and hearing, yet relatively little is said of how the underlying code and algorithmic architectures of software actually exert those effects. The work done […]
*Editors’ Note: American History Now is the newest journal to be launched as part of the Pressforward Project. Have you got some research, a small conclusion, an idea or possibility; some piece of work which isn’t really suitable for the standard journal format? Maybe a piece which doesn’t fit easily in any single discipline? Would you […]
English & Creative Writing – Assistant Professor of Literature & Technology | Inside Higher Ed. The Department of English & Creative Writing at the State University of New York at Oswego invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor with a specialty in Literature and Technology. Review Date: Review of applications will begin November 1, […]
Welcome to Maker Librarian! | Maker Librarian. Having been involved in Maker Culture since 2009, I’ve taken a lot of pleasure in watching the maker and hacker movement intersect with libraries and was excited to play a small role in making this happen. And in the last year interest seems to have exploded! This is where […]
Scholars’ Lab. For part three of our release parade, we’re showcasing the 1.0.0 release of the FedoraConnector plugin forOmeka. Fedora Commons is a digital repository management system. It’s used by libraries to manage and scale their online repository and digital assets and collections. As such, it’s often used by larger institutions; however, this isn’t aimed at those organizations. […]
