My Friday afternoon session at the AHA annual meeting was much more productive, largely because it was more focused on things Russian and East European. That meant the audience was there to learn about content resources rather than about “tech tools” as in my morning session. Steve Barnes presented his Gulag project, which is now close to done. There was a…
At the AHA (Friday morning)
My Friday morning session at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association started badly and ended well. The six of us who were to present had a bit of a misunderstanding about the format, not realizing that it was to be a “digital poster session.” Once we figured that out (and the hotel managed to get a router in…
At the AHA — Sanctions Needed
The American Historical Association needs to figure out a way to start imposing sanctions on departments that do what I just witnessed at the annual meeting’s headquarters hotel. In the section on interviewing in the Association’s Guidelines for the Hiring Process, point #4 reads: “Interviews should take place in a professional setting. The AHA strongly…
At the AHA (Thursday afternoon, part 2)
The final full session of the pre-conference workshop at the AHA annual meeting, three presenters showed us work in progress. Jan Reiff asked whether we have moved beyond Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 (transforming all of the web into a database, the Semantic Web, etc.)? (Not in the history business, I’d say–but a few of…