Category Archives: Publications

First issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly

Posted on 2007-04-11 by smahony

The first issue of this new open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal is now out. Have a look. The following text is copied from the Digital Classicist mailing list: We are very pleased to announce the first issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Publications | Leave a comment

Your data is the next big battle

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Tom Elliott

The trendspotters are saying (rhetorically) “Open Source is dead” and “Open data matters more than Open Source.” What’s clearly meant is: “open data formats matter more …” Open access — over which critical battles important to readers of this blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Publications | Leave a comment

Citizendium debuts

Posted on 2007-03-27 by scaife

from the CHE: Citizendium Starts With a Little Knowledge Citizendium, the peer-reviewed “progressive fork” of Wikipedia (The Chronicle, October 18, 2006), has opened for business. The site unveiled its public face on Sunday and as of this afternoon boasts more … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Open Source, Publications | Leave a comment

MIT Faculty and Libraries Refuse DRM

Posted on 2007-03-21 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot, MIT LIbraries: The MIT Libraries have canceled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers’ web-based database of technical papers, rejecting the SAE’s requirement that MIT accept the imposition of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. SAE’s DRM technology … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Publications | Leave a comment

Middlebury Wikigate Revisited

Posted on 2007-03-20 by Tom Elliott

Back in January, I made some hooting noises and pointed at Jimmy Wales in the context of the tempest-in-a-teapot that erupted after the Middlebury College History Department added Wikipedia to its list of works students may not cite in papers. … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Publications, Teaching | Leave a comment

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition

Posted on 2007-03-14 by Tom Elliott

From Charles Bailey’s post to JISC-REPOSITORIES: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. Each annual edition is based … Continue reading →

Posted in Publications | Leave a comment

New Blog: Current Epigraphy

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Announcement of a new blog: Current Epigraphy reports news and events in Greek and Latin epigraphy. http://www.currentepigraphy.org ISSN 1754-0909 (Online) CE publishes workshop and conference announcements; notices of discoveries, publications and reviews; project reports; and descriptive links to digital epigraphic … Continue reading →

Posted in Publications | Leave a comment

Journal of Employability and The Humanities

Posted on 2007-02-27 by Gabriel Bodard

This call for papers was circulated by the HEA History, Classics, and Archaeology Subject Centre, but the journal, I believe, is being launched by the University of Central Lancashire. It strikes me that Humanities Computing departments that teach digital humanities … Continue reading →

Posted in Call for papers, Publications, Teaching | Leave a comment

The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Black Sea Studies: Open Access Publications

Posted on 2007-02-22 by chuckjones

All the Centre’s products are published online. This includes any product from conference abstracts, to manuscripts, oral papers, and pdf files of the Centre’s printed publications.

Posted in General, Publications | Leave a comment

Promotion and Tenure Criteria for New Media

Posted on 2007-02-16 by chuckjones

The University of Maine has produced an argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of today’s universities. It seems to provide an excellent point of departure for a discussion of how to include a … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Publications | Leave a comment

Interview: Knowledge to the people

Posted on 2007-02-02 by smahony

Article seen in the New Scientist: Interview with Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia. From issue 2589 of New Scientist magazine, 31 January 2007, page 44-45 Questions include: Was Wikipedia a fully formed concept right from the start? When did … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Publications | Leave a comment

Online “Middle English Compendium”

Posted on 2007-01-31 by smahony

See on Humanist posted by Paul Schaffner | PFSchaffner@umich.edu The University of Michigan announces that under new arrangements worked out between the University Press and the University Library, all components of the online “Middle English Compendium,” including the online version … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Publications | Leave a comment

Humanities Computing Links from TAPoR

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Tom Elliott

Geoffrey Rockwell has put up a collection of tagged links to online works about humanities computing. It’s a good complement to Bill Turkel’s Readings in Digital History. And, best of all, it’s TAPoRized, so you can search the collection and … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Publications, Tools | 1 Comment

8 things about e-books

Posted on 2007-01-19 by Tom Elliott

Charlie Lowe just blogged about the Educause Learning Initiative‘s helpful introductory 2-pager entitled 7 Things You Should Know About E-books. It’s a decent tool for introducing colleagues to some of the key issues surrounding, and potential benefits involved in, electronic … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Publications | Leave a comment

Another Reason for Opening Access to Research

Posted on 2007-01-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons feed, an article in the British Medical Journal by John Wilbanks, executive director of the Science Commons, on why scientific research needs to be Open Access (and his arguments apply to all academic research, of … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Publications | Leave a comment