On behalf of the University of North Texas Libraries, I invite the HASTAC community to take part in a survey of key stakeholders in data management at universities and academic libraries.
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This week, my general education literature class will be starting Oscar Wilde. He’s the only writer that we’ll be reading in breadth, as we’ll be doing five different texts: two of his early fairytales (“The Happy Prince” and “The Nightinga…
Here in Charlottesville we had the only few inches of snow that we will get this year. They will probably disappear during the course of the warm day. This haunting winter scene on the Mall in Central Park in New York captures very well the mood this morning. The black and white oscillation over proliferating [...]
In the last couple of years Alex, as we call him, helped with the WebKitGTK+ port maintenance from bugfixing to testing or releasing. He also contributed some improvements to the shadow rendering performance and lately he started the integration of WebKit2 GTK+ port, helping also with the integration of the accelerated compositing in the GTK+ port. Please join me [...]
I cannot tell I lie. It was me what memefied my discipline.
This talk by Bret Victor caught fire a few days ago, but I just got a chance to watch to …
It’s been almost a year since I last posted to my HASTAC blog. I cannot believe that so much time has passed. In the last six months, i have been installed in a new position at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The school is located in Marsha…
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An excellent short video from Europeana on what linked open data is and why it is a good thing both for users and content providers.
For more information on Europeana’s work on open data see their press release of 17 February.
By my own criteria I’ve already failed… I started this series of posts with the intention of documenting the process of finding and extracting editorials as I was actually doing the work. But here I am about to describe some work I finished a few weeks back. Oh well… In my previous instalments (here and [...]
Texas A&M University Digital Scholars
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Heather Bowlby is a PhD student in Victorian Literature at the University of Virginia and 2011-2012 NINES Fellow. In a recent article in The Chronicle, “How Not to Reform Humanities Scholarship,” Gary Olson addresses the role of emerging digital methodologies in efforts to reform humanities scholarship. The increasing call to refashion humanities research by means [...]
I have had the most delightful time reading and remixing Learning, Freedom, and the Web, a free ebook written in HTML 5 by Fast Company’s inimitable Anyal Kamenetz. It is one of the first truly remixable books I’ve had the pleasure to read: http://lear…
I have had the most delightful time reading and remixing Learning, Freedom, and the Web, a free ebook written in HTML 5 by Fast Company’s inimitable Anyal Kamenetz. It is one of the first truly remixable books I’ve had the pleasure to read: http://lear…
