My Recent LoC.gov posts- Hydra’s Open Source Approach: An Interview with Tom Cramer May 13, 2013
- Historicizing the Digital for Digital Preservation Education: An Interview with Alison Langmead and Brian Beaton May 6, 2013
- Understanding User Generated Tags for Digital Collections: An Interview with Jennifer Golbeck May 1, 2013
- Born Digital Archival Materials at NYPL: An Interview with Donald Mennerich April 22, 2013
- Challenges in the Curation of Time Based Media Art: An Interview with Michael Mansfield April 9, 2013
- Nominations Now Open for the 2013 NDSA Innovation Awards April 4, 2013
- The Metadata Games Crowdsourcing Toolset for Libraries & Archives: An Interview with Mary Flanagan April 3, 2013
- Quest for the Critical E-dition: An interview with Leonardo Flores March 20, 2013
- Islandora’s Open Source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott March 4, 2013
- Born Digital Folklore and the Vernacular Web: An Interview with Robert Glenn Howard February 22, 2013
- My Recent Play the Past Posts
- The Future of the Civil War through Gaming: Morgan’s Raid Video Game February 7, 2013
- It’s All About Meaningful Decisions: Game Design Toward Nuanced Historical Interpretation and Complexity February 5, 2013
- What Does Simony Say? An Interview with Ian Bogost December 13, 2012
- The New Science: Playing the Scientific Revolution September 27, 2012
- “No no no, that’s not the way it happened. Shall I start again?” July 24, 2012
- Playing at Slavery: Modding Colonization for Authenticity May 24, 2012
- Jamestown Adventure: Less is More May 15, 2012
- Guns, Germs, and Horses: Cultural Exchange in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 13, 2012
- if (!isNative()){return false;}: De-People-ing Native Peoples in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 1, 2012
- Playing with World Religion: What Religion Means in Civ IV February 16, 2012
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Signifying & Significance: Figuring out what matters and saving the digital things that testify to that mattering
Last week I was excited to participate in as a panelist in a small conference at the Bard Graduate Center called Digital/Pedagogy/Material/Archives. The goal of the event was to bring together scholars working at the intersection of these four terms to … Continue reading
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Designing Online Communities: Read My Accepted Dissertation Proposal
As of last monday, I have now successfully defended my dissertation proposal. In the context of my doctoral program, that means there is just one more hurdle to climb over to finish. I’m generally rather excited about the project, and would be thrilled to … Continue reading
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Tagged design, Digital History, digital humanities, digital libraries, learning, print project
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Small Pieces Loosely Kludged: Peer Review and Publication in Math Scholarly Communication
I’m always interested to hear about how different scholarly communities are changing their communications practices. Things like PLOS One, and projects like PressForward are putting forward interesting and new models for when and where review happens and how we establish … Continue reading
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Front Lines: Early-Career Scholars Doing Digital History… Virtual AHA Panel Participation
I may not be at AHA 2013, but that won’t stop me from participating on a panel. Below is a series of videos I created for an AHA 2013 panel. “Front Lines: Early-Career Scholars Doing Digital History.” Each video responds to … Continue reading
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2012 Year in Review: Digital History, Digital Cultural Heritage, and the Born Digital History of Science
Looking back on this year makes me exhausted. It looks like I managed to put up 34 posts on The Library of Congress Digital Preservation Blog as well as 11 posts on Play the Past and 24 posts here on … Continue reading
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Implications for Digital Collections Given Historian’s Research Practices
The new ITHAKA report, Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians is something that everybody working with cultural heritage collections should read. It’s full of good stuff, but in my opinion the key finding is that Google is now (by … Continue reading
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Seeing With Cinimagram
I’ve been dabbling a bit with Cinamagram this week. It’s a free app that lets you create Cinamagraphs. Their tagline is “Create a stunning hybrid between photo and video” and it does a nice job at letting you create something that … Continue reading
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Discovery and Justification are Different: Notes on Science-ing the Humanities
Computer Scientist: “You can’t do that with Topic Modeling.” Humanist: “No, I can because I’m not a scientist. We have this thing called Hermeneutics.” Computer Scientist: “…” Humanist: “No really, we get to do what we want, we read texts … Continue reading
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Apparently When Girls Adopt Technology it Ceases to be Technology
I was excited to read Geek Masculinity and the Myth of the Fake Geek Girl. I saw the image macro at the top, and thought, “neat, another image macro like successful black man that turns stereotypes on their head.” Sadly, this is not … Continue reading
Do Less More Often: An Approach to Digital Strategy for Cultural Heritage Orgs
Everybody is trying to do too much at once. Find the low hanging fruit and pick it. Get the boxes off the floor. Release early and release often. Put things out there and find out how you should be doing things. I … Continue reading
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