Today, I’ll be speaking at the Connecticut Forum on Digital Initiatives at the Connecticut State Library under the catch-all title, “The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: New initiatives, oldies but goodies, and partnership opportunities with ‘CHNM North’.” The long and short of it is that the institutional realities of being a grant-funded [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Libraries'
Connecticut Forum on Digital Initiatives
October 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries
Omeka and Its Peers
September 1st, 2010 · 8 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Favorites · Libraries · Museums · Omeka
Rethinking Access
March 31st, 2010 · Comments Off
[This week and next I'll be facilitating the discussion of "Learning & Information" at the IMLS UpNext: Future of Museums and Libraries wiki. The following is adapted from the first open thread. Please leave any comments at UpNext to join in the wider discussion!] In addition to the questions posted on the main page for [...]
Tags: Favorites · Libraries · Museums
Benchmarking Open Source: Measuring Success by “Low End” Adoption
November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
In an article about Kuali adoption, the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Campus Computing Project director, Kenneth C. Green as saying, With due respect to the elites that are at the core of Sakai and also Kuali, the real issue is not the deployment of Kuali or Sakai at MIT, at Michigan, at Indiana, or [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries · Management · Museums · Omeka · Open Source
A Google Books Cautionary Tale
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments
This one made the rounds of Twitter earlier today thanks to Jo Guldi. This month Wired Magazine tells a cautionary tale for those following the progress of Google Books. Entitled “Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles,” the article reminds readers of Google’s 2001 acquisition of a Usenet archive of more than 700 million articles [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Google · Libraries · Open Access · Search · Twitter
SI and Flickr Commons
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Originally published in the journal Archival Science, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has just released under open access terms a report of the Institution’s experience with Flickr Commons. Written by Martin Kalfatovic, Effie Kapsalis, Katherine Spiess, Anne Van Camp, and Mike Edson, the report recounts what the authors deem a mostly successful experiment with Web 2.0, [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries · Museums · Open Access · Yahoo!
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
Briefly Noted: FOSS Culture; Digital Humanities Calendar; Guardian API; WWW Turns 20
March 13th, 2009 · No Comments
GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters has some advice on bridging the gap between institutional and open source cultures. Useful reading for digital humanities centers and cultural heritage institutions looking to participate in open source software development. Amanda French has posted a much-needed open calendar of upcoming events in Digital Humanities, Archives, Libraries, and Museums. [...]
Tags: Anniversaries · Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · History of Technology · Libraries · Management · Museums · Open Source
Briefly Noted for March 9, 2009
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments
This year CHNM and the American Historical Association will be pleased to award the first Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History in memory of our late friend and inspiration, Roy Rosenzweig. The American Association for State and Local History has launched a traveling exhibition directory for museums and other organizations looking to find and [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Digital Humanities · Humor · Libraries · Local History · Museums · Public History · Roy · Video
Brand Name Scholar
February 26th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Scholars may not like it, but that doesn’t change the fact that in the 21st century’s fragmented media environment, marketing and branding are key to disseminating the knowledge and tools we produce. This is especially true in the field of digital humanities, where we are competing for attention not only with other humanists and other [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Favorites · Libraries · Management · Marketing · Mozilla · Museums · Open Source · Twitter

