- I'm a digital archivist at the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress and a doctoral student at GMU. I'm interested in online communities, digital history, and video games. I blog on this site, and at playthepast.org. Views expressed are not those of any current or former employer.
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- Debating the Digital Humanities Gets Real | Trevor Owens on Digital History: The Course That Never Ends
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- "Paintings with Purchase Prices" nice demo viewshare of Samuel H. Kress Collection History Database http://t.co/lgD0UBUZ about 4 hours ago from bitly ReplyRetweetFavorite
- What a fantastic idea! "Announcing the School of Data" from the Open Knowledge Foundation http://t.co/t3OnVNgF about 7 hours ago from bitly ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @stakats it was all, here is are PDFs of two of your papers. One the actual journal PDF and the other a PDF of an unformated per-print. about 10 hours ago from Tweetbot for iOS in reply to stakats ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Where does http://t.co/pcQdPm4G find PDFs of your articles? I was surprised to see some of what it pulled in for full text copies. about 10 hours ago from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
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On typos
I blog because I want to. I don't get paid to do this. It isn't fancy like that. I am also not a particularly careful editor. I just wasn't wired that way. Every once and a while I get an email from someone who points out typos in my text. Sometimes they apologize for sending me those comments. I am always deeply grateful to them. If you see a typo, misspelling, or otherwise grammatically incorrect issue on my site and send me an email I will be thrilled. I will thank you. My email is trevor dot johnowens at gmail do com.
Author Archives: tjowens
The Value of Design Narratives: The Case of Environmental Detectives
In Please Write it Down: Design and Research in the Digital Humanities I suggested that there are some valuable ways of thinking about the connections between building/designing and creating knowledge and scholarship. In particular, I suggested that those interested in learning through building in … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tools, Education
Tagged augmented reality, design, design based research, design narrative, digital humanities, methods, mobile, research, scholarship
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Reading the Sporum: What Players do with Spore
It appears the stars have aligned and several papers I have had in the works for a while are hitting the streets at the same time. I’m excited to announce that an article I wrote for Cultural Studies of Science Education is … Continue reading
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Deforming reality with Word Lens
If you haven’t checked it out already Wordlens is an amazingly cool iPhone app that will automatically translate text on the fly, as you see it. I’ve had it on my phone for about a month now, but I find that the … Continue reading
Debating the Digital Humanities Gets Real
My author copies of Debating the Digital Humanities came in today. It’s humbling to have some of my words included in such a hefty tome. I’ve been reading and enjoying it, great stuff. Beyond being a useful volume, it’s also … Continue reading
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Tripadvisor Rates Einstein: Traces of Public Memory and Science on the Web
Arguing with Einstein is one of my favorite photos of the Albert Einstein memorial. It encapsulates how some of the sculptor’s intentions, his argument about Einstein and science, manifest themselves in an invitation to argue with a statue. The seated statue … Continue reading
Defining Data for Humanists: Text, Artifact, Information or Evidence?
Fred and I got some fantastic comments on our Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing paper through the Writing History in the Digital Age open peer review. We are currently working on revising the manuscript. At this point I have … Continue reading
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Techies You Decide! You’re either a Feminist or a Misogynist
I got caught up reading Margaret Robertson’s great post today, In Which I don’t try to write like a man. She describes how she has self-censored herself. How she has tried to frequently go out of her way to de-gender … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Games
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Ancient Wisdom from the Forums: Failures of Collective Intelligence
A while back, I wrote about how the shame you are supposed to feel when someone uses Let Me Google That For You illustrates how finding answers to your questions on the knowledge base that is the internet has become a distinct … Continue reading
Posted in History, Note to historians of the future
Tagged collective intelligence, distributed cognition, forums, xkcd
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Newbs, N00bs and Elitists: Neologisms for learners and teachers in open online communities
The openness of online communities is one of the things that make them so exciting. Anyone, anywhere, can create an account and start participating. The more I think about some of the research I did on RPGmakerVX.net the more I think … Continue reading
My First Citation! Not my writing but my gaming?
Well it’s happened. I have been cited for my work! While it would be fun to say that it was one of my fantastic research articles, it is actually for my chops as a Druid a few years back in … Continue reading
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