The Internet Archive and the Digital Humanities
The Internet Archive was founded eleven years ago by Brewster Kahle to build the world's first 'Internet Library.' Since 1996, the Archive has been collecting [...]
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Nov 2007
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Oct 2007
Agora.Techno.Phobia.Philia: Gender (and other messy matters), Knowledge Building, and Digital Media
"The degree to which American society has embraced and absorbed computer technologies is astonishing. The degree to which the changes provoked by computers leave prevailing [...]
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Sep 2007
Using Digital Tools to Not-Read Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans”
The difficulties engendered by the complicated patterns of repetition in Gertrude Stein's 900-page novel _The Making of Americans_ make it almost impossible to read this [...]
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Mar 2007
Identifying Web 2.0: Remixing Institutional Identities
Established e-portfolio and CMS systems such as Blackboard and WebCT are based on storing, commenting on, and chatting about documents. They are closed to integration [...]
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Mar 2007
Zotero and the Promise of Social Computing in Academia
The Library of Congress contains over a million dissertations. Each of these works represents an average of four years of work by a specialist who [...]
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Mar 2007
Applying Web 2.0 Tools to Instruction: Collaborative Website Development with Wikis and Managing Information Overload with RSS Feeds
Web 2.0 is a phrase that refers to a generation of Web-based tools that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. Web 2.0 applications tend [...]
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Dec 2006
The Digital Docket: Information Retrieval Meets Political Science
Previous research of judicial systems has faced a trade-off between large scale quantitative inquiries focused on readily-counted behaviors, and smaller studies that allow closer examination [...]
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Nov 2006
The Virtual Humanities Lab and the Evolution of Remote Collaboration
The Virtual Humanities Lab was a two-year project, generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2004-06. VHL was housed in Italian Studies [...]