Making Data Matter Big Data: Tools, Ethics and Social Change

 Collaboration, higher education, History, Libraries, Visualization  Comments Off
Apr 132013
 

In fall of 2013, HASTAC @ Duke will be participating in a collaborative project as part of Duke University's Bass Connections program in the area of Information, Society and Culture. The following is an in-depth look into what participating students can expect to learn from this interdisciplinary project, which builds on HASTAC's CI-BER research and roadmap. 

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 Posted by on April 13, 2013

The Research Trip: A Survival Guide

 Academia, archives, History, Libraries  Comments Off
Apr 042013
 

Rebecca White

Having recently returned from an excellent research trip to Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick, I have a few words of wisdom to offer the novice research tripper and archival neophyte.  Of course, all our experiences will be as different as our topics, but sooner or later we all must venture out to unknown libraries and archives in search of our prey—historical evidence.  Here is my top ten:

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Episode 97: Digital Potato Library of America

 archives, ebooks, Libraries, Museums, open access, public domain, sustainability  Comments Off
Apr 022013
 

In another single-topic Digital Campus, we react to the news that Dan is headed to the Digital Public Library of America as its Executive Director (no tears, no tears) by forcing him to tell us all about it. Special guests on the podcast include Berkman Center and DPLA Technical Workstream member David Weinberger, author of Too Big to Know and Everything is Miscellaneous as well as Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The Big Switch. Issues raised include Internet centralization, the future of public libraries, and Mr. Potato Head.

Links
Nicholas Carr, “The Library of Utopia,” MIT Technology Review, April 25, 2012. Available at http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/427628/the-library-of-utopia/

Running time: 49:45
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Searching, Uploading and Metadata Creation

 Academia, digital humanities, Libraries  Comments Off
Mar 252013
 

It was important before I began expanding the Women's Studies collection, to familiarize myself with both what was online and in print, as much as possible anyway. I visited the University Archives where I got a feel of how much (how many boxes) there were to be scanned. I ended up touching on about half of it I think, which I'm pretty proud of. Got through all the newsletters anyway, which I think give a good view of the changes in feminist thought from the 1970s-1990s. More on that later.

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