Announcements, News

Announcement: Writing History in the Digital Age

We are proud to announce the latest title from digitalculturebooks, Writing History in the Digital Age edited by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty. This book is the third title in our Digital Humanities series and began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Smithsonian Releases E-Book on Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age

The Smithsonian—the world’s largest museum and research complex, with collections numbering in excess of 137 million objects and specimens—has long experimented on the digital frontier. In his book, “Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age,” G. Wayne Clough, the Smithsonian’s 12th Secretary, surveys the efforts of many world-class institutions, including […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Investigate the Garment Factories

We are taking the garment factory investigation to the next level with a new online Data Expedition. In collaboration with P2PU and the International Labor Rights Forum, School of Data will bring data explorers from around the globe together online to answer some of the tough questions about the global garment industry. Join us for […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Peeking behind the curtain of the Mechanical Curator

Random, fortuitous, haphazard, undirected, unplanned, and most importantly, unpredictable. There are already many ways to discover great content that you know you like, but how do you find things that you cannot begin to describe? The majority of researchers begin their search for content using a general purpose search engine (Ithaka S+R | Jisc | […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Who’s Afraid of Open Access?

The reason why the Science article deserves a vocal and energetic response from those of us working on open access publishing is Science‘s reputation as a journal and the visibility and online traffic it has. One cannot but interrogate the author’s and his editor’s motivations to publish what comes across as a biased and ‘non-scientific’ […]