As an open source, not-for-profit, warm-and-fuzzy, community service oriented project, we don’t normally like to talk about market rivals or competitive products when we talk about Omeka. Nevertheless, we are often asked to compare Omeka with other products. "Who’s Omeka’s competition?" is a fairly frequent question. Like many FAQs, there is an easy answer and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Digital Humanities'
Omeka and Its Peers
September 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries · Museums · Omeka
One Week | One Tool: Interim Report
August 17th, 2010 · No Comments
As promised on Twitter, I’m sharing the report (with a few minor copyedits and corrections) I submitted this week to NEH on One Week | One Tool. This is an interim report, which means there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered. The grant continues for another year, during which time the One Week | [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Open Source
Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 3, Serendipity
August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
Over the past few months, several people—including several participants themselves—have asked me how we chose the One Week | One Tool crew. We had about 50 applicants. Nearly all of them were perfectly qualified to attend. This made the selection process exceedingly difficult. I have no doubt we could have ended up with another group [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Management
Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 2, Use
August 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments
For all the emphasis on the tool itself, the primary aim of One Week | One Tool is not tool building, it’s education. One Week | One Tool is funded by NEH under the the Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities (IATDH) program. IATDH grants “support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Marketing · Open Source
Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 1, Project Management
July 28th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Three days into One Week | One Tool, I’m beginning to see that one of the nice things about running an NEH Summer Institute as a practicum rather than a classroom is that the organizers learn as much as the participants. For me, this week has reinforced and clarified an important set of related lessons [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Management
OAH, AHA, NCPH Approve Recommendations on Evaluating Public History for Tenure and Promotion
June 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The boards of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the National Council on Public History have approved a single set of best practices for evaluating public history scholarship in history departments. The advice is outlined in a new report [.pdf] entitled Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian. Acknowledging that [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Public History
New Wine in Old Skins: Why the CV needs hacking
May 27th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins. – Mark 2:22 Since the time of my first foray into digital humanities as a newly minted graduate working on a project [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Favorites
Why Digital Humanities is “Nice”
May 26th, 2010 · 6 Comments
One of the things that people often notice when they enter the field of digital humanities is how nice everybody is. This can be in stark contrast to other (unnamed) disciplines where suspicion, envy, and territoriality sometimes seem to rule. By contrast, our most commonly used bywords are “collegiality,” “openness,” and “collaboration.” We welcome new [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Favorites
THATCamp Groundrules
May 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments
After giving my “groundrules” speech for a third THATCamp on Saturday, I realized I hadn’t published it anywhere for broader dissemination and possible reuse by the THATCamp community. So here they are, THATCamp’s three groundrules: THATCamp is FUN – That means no reading papers, no powerpoint presentations, no extended project demos, and especially no grandstanding. [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Favorites
One Week, One Book: Hacking the Academy
May 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments
Dan Cohen and I have been brewing a proposal for an edited book entitled Hacking the Academy. Let’s write it together, starting at THATCamp. And let’s do it in one week. Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Open Access · Publishing

