Category: cultural informatics

Workshop on Humanities Applications for World Community Grid

IBM Presents: A Workshop on Humanities Applications for World Community Grid On October 6, 2008, IBM will be sponsoring a free one-day workshop in Washington, DC on high performance computing for humanities and social science research. This workshop is aimed at digital humanities scholars, computer scientists working on humanities applications, library information professionals, and others […]

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mistersquid: a digital fiction: Resurface

In fact, I’m somewhat in astonished awe at the recent push for supercomputing in the humanties. Don’t get me wrong; I think that supercomputing power applied to humanties-oriented applications will yield innumerable treasures, helping scholars discover as-yet-unimaginable correspondences between word frequencies, textual representation, and aesthetic structure. [From mistersquid: a digital fiction: Resurface] 00000 this is […]

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Walk of Ideas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walk of Ideas [From Walk of Ideas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] —– this is a brilliant idea.

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Degrees in Cultural Informatics

Were I to pursue an MLS, MLIS or Ph.D. related to Cultural Informatics, I would go to UCLA, Illinois or Maryland in the United States. UCLA, Illinois, and Maryland have leaders in the field that will get you jobs. \n Common sense dictates that if you want to work in this field, go to the […]

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Fellowship and Conference

Since Tuesday I have been in Milwaukee visiting SOIS and CIPR as part of my Information Ethics fellowship. I attended a discussion about a possible future conference on translating intercultural information ethics across the situated understandings that term implies across a plurality of contexts. That seems like a great project, I’m happy to help out […]

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book chapter: there is a gunman on campus

—— Brent and I have “Chapter 11: The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving Memories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy” in the above book.

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New Tool for Online Collections :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education

Archival collections, impossible to house centrally at many campuses, are about to get easier to use. Starting today, librarians and archivists can upload digital content into online collections with relative ease, allowing them to effectively curate items with open-source tools instead of relying on third-party consultants to build specialized Web portals. [From New Tool for […]

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center for new humanities

— this is an interesting presentation for a center for new humanities at rutgers. I’m not sure that humanities are centered around creativity, but I am sure that i think that they humanities lead the way in terms of the skills that allow creativity and innovation to flourish.

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Preservation and Access Across the Spectrum

Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007) provides one clump of essays exploring the use of digitization, mostly from the vantage of museums but considering cultural heritage to span across libraries, galleries, archives, and archaeology as well. [From Preservation and Access Across the Spectrum] — this looks like an interesting […]

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science and technology studies and internet research tools

Download the Original size This is the referencetool system that I made years ago and is still publicly usable. it is just an install of wikindx3 with some customizations.

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