Found History

by Tom Scheinfeldt

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An Unexpected Honor

October 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments

Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, where I did my doctoral work, and a major figure in my dissertation, I am very honored to welcome Dr. Gunther to the Found History staff. Despite having [...]

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Tags: Biography · Blogs · Google · History of Technology · Humor · Museums

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 [...]

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Tags: Blogs · Briefly Noted · Google · Libraries · Museums · Open Access · Timelines · Tools · Visualizations

Briefly Noted: Universal Museum APIs; Raw Data Now!; Publish or Perish

March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, London (where I’m a research fellow, incidentally) points to Museums and the machine-processable web, a new wiki “for sharing, discussing, arguing over and hopefully coming to some common agreements on APIs and data schemas for museum collections.” Following closely on that, Tim Berners-Lee calls for “Raw [...]

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Tags: Artifacts · Blogs · Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Education · Museums · Video

Briefly Noted for February 25, 2009

February 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Along with “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” “release early and often” is something of a mantra around CHNM, especially when it comes to software and web application development. For a variety of reasons, not least the invaluable testing and feedback projects get when they actually make it into the wild, CHNM has [...]

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Tags: Blogs · Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Film · Management · Memory · Video

New Year’s Top Ten Roundup

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Last month on the Digital Campus podcast, Mills, Dan, and I offered our take on the top ten stories of 2008 and our predictions for the biggest stories of 2009. As we readily acknowledge, the “top ten” device is a crude one, but it remains a perennial favorite, both among Digital Campus listeners and across [...]

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Tags: Blogs · Digital Humanities · Libraries · Museums · Podcasts · Tops of All Time

WordCamp Ed

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Let me join the choruses celebrating WordCamp Ed, which makes its debut in Fairfax on November 22, 2008. Organized by CHNM and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown (but mainly by our own Dave Lester), WordCamp Ed will bring together teachers of all stripes to talk about educational uses for [...]

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Tags: Blogs · Education · Tools

Briefly Noted for June 12, 2008

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Geek meme: Command line history. For about a month during the spring, geeks everywhere were using history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head to post their top ten most used shell commands to the interwebs. Samuel Pepys on Twitter. Good idea, but doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. I have enjoyed the Pepys Diary [...]

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Tags: Audio · Blogs · Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Twitter

Briefly Noted for March 14, 2008

March 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Finally! From our talented Polish colleagues at Historia i Media comes Feeds, a much needed new resource that uses Google Reader to aggregate and filter RSS streams from digital historians around the world. “One Feed to rule them all, One Feed to find them, One Feed to bring them all and in the darkness bind [...]

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Tags: Blogs · Digital Humanities · Film · Sports · Tools · Video

Briefly Noted for February 27, 2008

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

A Year Before is a WordPress plugin allowing users to display titles of articles posted n number of days ago. Its developers suggest using it in a “historical corner” to show “what happened in your blog e.g. 30 days, 6 months or a year before.” Tenspotting. Chock full of “best ever” lists. 28 Weird Al [...]

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Tags: Ambient History · Blogs · Briefly Noted · Music · Tools · Tops of All Time

THAT Podcast

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I just finished watching the inaugural episode of THAT Podcast (“The Humanities and Technology Podcast”), the new video podcast from CHNM creative lead, Jeremy Boggs and CHNM web developer, Dave Lester. Wow. Considering Jeremy and Dave’s technical chops, I wasn’t surprised at the excellent production values. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised at the [...]

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Tags: Audio · Blogs · Digital Humanities · Podcasts · Video