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The Sustaining Digital History project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants seeks to “build a scholarly community for the practice of the emerging field of digital history.” They hosted a meeting on Oct. 1 … Continue reading →

A recent request for ideas on using etext versions of books in the absence of available paper-based versions for a literature course sparked a quick few ideas. The question was framed as “how could students engage in those texts in … Continue reading →

Inkling, a new app and textbook producer, was mentioned recently in the Wired Campus blog from The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Kaya, Travis. “Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response” Sept. 20, 1010) What is it? An app for buying, reading, … Continue reading →

Wichada Sukantarat of the UVM Library asked Alison Armstrong, Scott Scaheffer and me to put together a panel discussion for the library staff on eBook and eReaders. I was asked to talk about the technical issues, Alison about library service … Continue reading →

According to Daniel Paul O’Donnell, “Humanities, Not Science, Key to New Web Frontier.” Citing the humanities background of several familiar web creators (Larry Sanger/Wikipedia, Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook, Michael Everson/Unicode), O’Donnell asserts that: “The Internet is no longer primarily an engineering problem. … Continue reading →

Held Monday, February 01, 2010http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5932 This was, far and away, the best NERCOMP event I have attended. The notes are both extensive and cryptic but I wanted to keep it all. 1) Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities … Continue reading →

The publishing world continues to buzz about upcoming reading devices and the business models that will best exploit them. E Ink, the company that makes the electronic “paper” used in devices like the Kindle, is still a black-and-white-only technology. However, … Continue reading →

A couple weeks ago Dan Cohen decided to try a live Twitter experiment in crowdsourcing during his live presentation at a conference. The experiment is described in his blog post summary. was to use Twitter to “replicate digitally the traditional … Continue reading →

Mary W. George (“Admissions of Another Sort” April 13, 2009) ponders the student library research experience and wonders: “If there is a discrepancy between pedagogical intent and actual student research behavior, how do faculty members address it?” Here are several … Continue reading →

Just published: a report, including several papers, from the September 2008 symposium held by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities, titled: “Working Together of Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship“ … Continue reading →