When asked if his undeniably useful and creative work is really science, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor Luis von Ahn answers, “Who cares?” Something for digital humanists to remember next time they’re asked, “But is it scholarship?”
Entries from April 2009
But is it scholarship?
April 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags: Digital Humanities
Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast. Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton’s February piece in The New York Review of Books is the most readable discussion I have seen of the Google Books settlement. Fresh + New(er), the Powerhouse Museum’s always interesting blog, describes that museum’s recent open house for [...]
Tags: Blogs · Briefly Noted · Google · Libraries · Museums · Open Access · Timelines · Tools · Visualizations
