Humanities
NERCOMP Review: Supporting Digital Humanities Research
Posted April 11th, 2008 by Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Simmons College
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Gail Matthews-DeNatale blogs the digital humanities research (DHR) session at the 2008 NERCOMP Conference. Project leaders from Brown, the University of Vermont and Wheaton talk about DHR and student and faculty engagement, how to achieve sustainability and scale, and perhaps most important: how to get these fascinating projects done in the first place.
Cyberinfrastructure For Us All: An Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Made possible by dramatic advances in networking technologies, cyberinfrastructure promises to combine new computing capabilities, massive data resources and distributed human expertise to enable qualitatively different creative product from new generations of "knowledge environments." Introducing this timely collection of observations on how this will affect liberal arts disciplines and institutions, David Green reviews the distance we've come in the last 15 years and identifies the main themes of the essays, interviews and reviews that follow.
The (Uncommon) Challenge of the Cultural Commonwealth
Posted December 16th, 2007 by Gary Wells, Ithaca College
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In reviewing Our Cultural Commonwealth, the report on cyberinfrastructure and the humanities commissioned by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Gary Wells notes "both the allure and anxiety of radical and disruptive change," and wonders if the academy and the broader public will be up to the cultural and financial challenges.
Beyond the ACLS Report: An interview with John Unsworth
Posted December 16th, 2007 by Kevin Guthrie, Ithaka
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John Unsworth chaired the ACLS Commission that authored Our Cultural Commonwealth. In a conversation with Kevin Guthrie, he offers his own well-developed definition of cyberinfrastructure, talks about why and how the needs of the humanities should be considered separately, and explains how the report's framework has been useful already in developing new implementation strategies.
The Virtual Observatory and the Roman de la Rose: Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative Imperative
Posted December 16th, 2007 by Sayeed Choudhury and Timothy L. Stinson, Johns Hopkins University
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Scientists were not always good collaborators. In pondering the "unprecedented convergence of interest across C.P. Snow's Two Cultures in the promise of cyberinfrastructure and of data-driven research," the computer scientist/digital librarian Sayeed Choudhury and medieval scholar Timothy Stinson propose a new relationship between humanities scholars, their resources and their colleagues.
Cyberinfrastructure as Cognitive Scaffolding: The Role of Genre Creation in Knowledge Making
Posted December 16th, 2007 by Janet Murray, Georgia Tech
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This gripping account describes what the process and products of a new cyberscholarship might look like in the age of the Semantic Web, in which cyberinfrastructure’s potential as a "facilitator of a vast social process of meaning making" might be further developed.
Cyberinfrastructure: Leveraging Change at our Institutions. An interview with James J. O'Donnell
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Provost O'Donnell, author of Avatars of the Word, is fascinated by how "institutions full of creative, innovative, iconoclastic people" are paradoxically "bastions of conservatism." Guiding us through the texture of change since the Internet hit 15 years ago, O"Donnell posits that incremental change is perhaps the best we can do until the fundamental instruments of scholarly communication and the academic reward structure change: "until the problem we have to solve is defined persuasively enough that we get enough people interested in solving it."
Museums, Cataloging & Content Infrastructure: An Interview with Kenneth Hamma
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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The architect of digital policy at the Getty Trust shares his conviction that building the digital "content infrastructure" depends on the contributions of thousands of smaller institutions that individually lack human and technological resources necessary for the task. Cyberinfrastructure could facilitate distributed cataloging and much wider distribution of museum holdings that would have a major impact on scholarship and teaching. However, a significant challenge remains that of the muddying of museums’ educational mission with notions of gatekeeping and income generation from the objects in their care.
Profiles of Key Cyberinfrastructure Organizations
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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We present here a collection of short profiles, specially written for
Academic Commons, on key service organizations and networks that will
be poised to assist and lead others who are working to bring a rich
cyberinfrastructure into play. Some are older humanities organizations
for which cyberinfrastructure is a totally new environment, others have
been created specifically around the provision of digital resources and
support.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services
Posted December 16th, 2007 by Joyce Ray
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local institutions and organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; to enhance learning and innovation; and to support professional development.
In the Knowledge Society of the 21st Century, digital content will be created, managed, preserved and disseminated within an infrastructure that is seamless and virtually invisible to users. The future digital environment will include digital representations of accumulated historical knowledge as well as vast amounts of new content. Future generations of users will build on this existing information and preserved digital content to create new knowledge and forms of expression. Libraries, museums, and archives are vital components of the emerging cyberinfrastructure.
Cultural heritage institutions are developing digital repositories to manage and preserve collections converted from analog formats as well as those that are digital-only. They are also leading efforts to develop tools, standards, and best practices to improve the management, discovery, presentation, and use of digital content. IMLS provides grant opportunities to libraries, museums, archives, and institutions of higher education for research, demonstrationl, and implementation projects to enhance library and museum services and for programs to educate the next generations of library and museum professionals. IMLS grant programs that support cyberinfrastructure include:
National Leadership Grants
In the Knowledge Society of the 21st Century, digital content will be created, managed, preserved and disseminated within an infrastructure that is seamless and virtually invisible to users. The future digital environment will include digital representations of accumulated historical knowledge as well as vast amounts of new content. Future generations of users will build on this existing information and preserved digital content to create new knowledge and forms of expression. Libraries, museums, and archives are vital components of the emerging cyberinfrastructure.
Cultural heritage institutions are developing digital repositories to manage and preserve collections converted from analog formats as well as those that are digital-only. They are also leading efforts to develop tools, standards, and best practices to improve the management, discovery, presentation, and use of digital content. IMLS provides grant opportunities to libraries, museums, archives, and institutions of higher education for research, demonstrationl, and implementation projects to enhance library and museum services and for programs to educate the next generations of library and museum professionals. IMLS grant programs that support cyberinfrastructure include:
National Leadership Grants
- Research and Demonstration Projects
- Building Digital Resources
- Library and Museum Collaborations
- Collaborative Planning Grants
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
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