Last week I wrote about the Archives Wiki at the American Historical Association’s website. A reader of the other blog I write for left a comment informing me of a different sort of archive wiki–the Your Archives Wiki at the UK National Archives. This project, still in beta, allows members of the “online community of…
THATCamp at CHNM
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will be holding THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp), May 31 and June 1, 2008. Sponsored by CHNM and the podcasts Digital Campus and THAT Podcast, this event will be an “unconference” on digital humanities. An unconference is an event where the participants decide…
Text Mining for Historians
[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] This summer the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will begin work on a two-year study of the potential of text-mining tools for historical (and by extension, humanities) scholarship. The project, entitled “Scholarship in the Age of Abundance: Enhancing Historical Research With…
To Read or Not to Read?
Episode 21 of our Digital Campus podcast is now up and ready for download. In this episode, Dan, Tom, and I take on the question of the future of reading in a digital world. Actually, Dan, Tom, Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts and Matt Kirschenbaum of the University of Maryland take…