This is a short list of books (and one essay) that reflects my understanding of the surge in art and technology collaborations from 1965 to 1971. The books published after 1971 are mostly summaries of events, works, and people that were active during the late 1960s. After nearly three decades of neglect, a new sequence [...]
American Sign Language (ASL) requires one’s body to act as a voice, with all of the expressive tone and weight that vocality conveys.
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Learning from L.A.’s young digital artists; Karen Cator answers questions about the National Ed Tech Plan; principles of digital learning for parents: teaching digital democracy; and celebrating International Women’s Day with tech savvy girls in India.
Where the Poster Session Meets the Poetry Slam!
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It’s a record-mobile!
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Houston, we have a problem. It turns out that trusting repositories as authoritative sources of research information is all very well and good, except when the repository is an authoritative source of demonstration (fake) documents. Sebastien Francois …
The New York Times maps the reach of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan. The page will probably be updated as they find out more.
At the Defend the Arts and Humanities site they have a link to a collection of Electronic Posters of people to use. Great idea!
[ Mar 11; ] Ray was invited to deliver the keynote address at the University of Alberta Humanities Computing Graduate Students’ Conference. He gave a talk titled “A Research Community’s Perspective on Engaging the Future of the History of the Book.” The website for the conference is here: http://huco.ualberta.ca/Events/HuCon2011.
An interesting post from Lorcan Dempsey focussing on the change in the way that libraries serve patrons and the role of the library in the scholarly community. The paragraph that most caught my eye, citing the book the Power of…
“He will direct the draughtsmen embarked on board the frigates to take views of all remarkable places and countries, portraits of the natives of different parts, their dresses, ceremonies, games, buildings, boats and vessels, and all the productions of…
From the Chronicle’s Wired Campus — this could have substantial implications for libraries (including budgets, as they’ll only sell them as packages, which I consider the scourge of thoughtfully-managed collections), scholarly publishing and scholarly communication. I’ll admit that non-profit merges…
Apparently so:Update (March 7, 2011): The Online LSJ was released on February 24, 2011. Within hours of its release, our site became the target of individuals attempting to download our data. By March 1 our server was bombarded by hundreds of coordi…
The following four digital humanities events will take place at UCL during the week of 14 to 20 March, all of which are free and fully open to the public:
Mon, 14 March 2011, 16:00 – 18:00: Dan Pett (British Museum) will talk ab…
