Last week the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) at the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the most recent winners of funding from the Digital Humanities Start Up grant competition (including a team here at CHNM). Three things jump out at me as I look at the list of new projects. The first is a…
Tag: web 2.0
Yet Another Attempt at Digital Books
I’ve been thinking about digital books a lot lately. Perhaps it’s because I was on a panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies that was devoted to the future of Slavic library collections archives in the digital age. I’m also on the editorial board of a print-on-demand…
The Future of the AHA (cont’d)
Yesterday I took up the question of the future of the American Historical Association in the Web 2.0 world. Today I want to continue that discussion by taking a look at the part of the report I mentioned that deals with the AHA’s plan to “maximize use of the Internet.” I think that the committee…
The Future of the AHA
What if the American Historical Association held an annual meeting and no one came? That’s not likely to happen, but it’s an interesting question to ponder, especially in light of the recently published “Final Report and Recommendations of th Working Group on the Future of the AHA.” This report is well worth reading, both because…