On Monday of this week Omeka, the open source platform we’ve created here at CHNM, won a $50,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. Omeka was one of ten winners this year. As nice as it was to receive the money, which will help fuel Omeka’s further development, it was just as nice to have our…
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Eight Guys From Trenton (cont’d)
A couple of years ago I wrote a piece for the blog on my favorite eight guys from Trenton. I have updated information on these fellows. I still don’t know who they are, but I know a lot more than I used to about the image itself. I’m not why, but in a fit of…
All the News That Fits
Although we’ve been a bit sporadic lately, Digital Campus is still a going concern. Episode 34 — Extra! Extra! — is now up and available for your listening pleasure. Tom, Dan, and I discuss the most recent developments in technology and the humanities, holding forth on such topics as Harvard’s decision to bail out on…
A Broken Promise?
The September 2008 issue of the Journal of American History contains the transcript of an interchange between eight leaders in the field of digital history. The transcript, which is finally available online (why it wasn’t make open access from the start I can’t imagine), should be required reading, not only for those working in or…