Monthly Archives: March 2007

Why Blogs should use Creative Commons

Posted on 2007-03-29 by Gabriel Bodard

An interesting discussion on the iCommons blog. Excerpt: If your intention, as a blogger, is to have your content and your thoughts distributed as widely as possible, then reserving all your rights to your content is counterproductive. A more effective … Continue reading →

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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 →

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e-Science in the Arts and Humanities

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Gabriel Bodard

A series of lectures organised by the (UK) Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre: AHeSSC is coordinating a ‘Theme’ entitled ‘e-Science in the Arts and Humanities’ at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh. For more details click here. The first phase … Continue reading →

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Join the Wikipedia Debate

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen at Academic Commons: This coming Thursday (29 March 2007), the first Language Lab Unleashed! of the spring will feature Don Wyatt (chair of the Department of History at Middlebury College), Elizabeth Colantoni (Professor of Classics at Oberlin College), Laura … Continue reading →

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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 →

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The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

Posted on 2007-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen at Academic Commons: The folks at the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory aka HASTAC (http://hastac.org) have posted a draft of a paper entitled “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.”  The paper will evolve through … Continue reading →

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Conference: Historic Environment Information Resources Network

Posted on 2007-03-26 by Gabriel Bodard

Data Sans Frontières: web portals and the historic environment 25 May 2007: The British Museum, London Organised by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network (HEIRNET) and supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and the British Museum, this one-day conference … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia editing as teaching tool

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

A wonderful suggestion in a comment on Cathy Davidson’s letter (that Tom blogged here a few days ago): Thanks for your great column. I’ve used the “stubs” feature of Wikipedia to generate a list of 120 topics relating to ancient … Continue reading →

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Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted by the Methods Network: The AHRC ICT Methods Network, a UK initiative for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research, has just launched an online community forum on ‘digital’ history: … Continue reading →

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Wikis and Blogs in Education

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons Feed: “The wiki is the center of my classroom” That’s a quote from Wikis and Blogs in Education, one of three educational remixes from students of open content pioneer David Wiley. The other two are … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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ECDL 2007 submission extension

Posted on 2007-03-15 by Tom Elliott

Via a note forwarded to the JISC-REPOSITORIES list, John Robertson alerts us to an extension (until 22 March 2007) of the submission deadline for “papers, panels, posters and demos, doctoral consortium and tutorial” for the 11th European Conference on Research … Continue reading →

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Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration

Posted on 2007-03-15 by Tom Elliott

From the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration website (where you’ll find all the details): The Program in Research in Information Technology of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites nominations for the 2007 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). In support … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities 2007 registration open

Posted on 2007-03-15 by Tom Elliott

By way of John Unsworth’s note to the HASTAC list, we learn that the schedule and online registration are now available for Digital Humanities 2007, complete with an unfunny logo.

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