Languages in Cyberspace
Languages in Cyberspace: Today various forces threaten linguistic diversity, particularly on the Internet. UNESCO seeks to promote wider and more equitable access to information networks by supporting the creation of linguistically and culturally diverse content in cyberspace and offering possibilities for the preservation of endangered languages. Read more about UNESCO’s language s in cyberspace efforts. […]
Read MoreMuseum Professionals and the Relevance of LIS Expertise
Museum Professionals and the Relevance of LIS Expertise: Marty, Paul F. (2007) Museum Professionals and the Relevance of LIS Expertise. — Paul Marty, who I met while interviewing at FSU, is cranking out some great papers in museums, museum informatics, and museum professionals in relation to library/information professionals
Read MoreHuman Scale Video Games | Fresh Creation
Human Scale Video Games | Fresh Creation: Human Scale Video Games from Old Skool Weblog Post. —— yep… someone had to do it.
Read MoreVersion 3.0 Launched – Creative Commons
Version 3.0 Launched – Creative Commons: The latest version of the Creative Commons licenses  Version 3.0  are now available. To briefly recap what is different in this version of the licenses: Separating the “generic†from the US license
Read MoreCultural Informatics
Here is my current definition of cultural informatics Cultural Informatics is the application and understandings of information technology in the broadest senses of cultures and cultural institutions. —– Here is an expansion and clarification: To that end, it deals with understandings of culturally centered information, cultural heritage, cultural communities, the transmission of information through cultures […]
Read MoreThe Montgomery-Finkelstein debate about why Wikipedia may…
The Montgomery-Finkelstein debate about why Wikipedia may…: The Montgomery-Finkelstein debate about why Wikipedia may not be what you think it is. —— is this what wikipedia is, or is that? wikipedia is an organization of parts that cannot work together, but because of the temporal arrangement of information in relation to the parts projection of […]
Read MoreA Companion to Digital Humanities
A Companion to Digital Humanities: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Now free online! —— It is all there and good.
Read MoreAbout Footnote
About Footnote: At Footnote.com you will find millions of images of original source documents, many of which have never been available online before. But at Footnote, finding an image is just the beginning. We have created powerful tools that let you interact with and enhance what you find. Annotate important information on the image, easily […]
Read MoreOur Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences
The ACLS is pleased to announce that “Our Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences” was released December 13, 2006. In 2004, ACLS appointed the Commission and charged it to recommend how the humanities and social sciences could develop online research […]
Read MoreLargest archive of free culture to be built in the Netherlands
Largest archive of free culture to be built in the Netherlands: From the Netherlands, the “Images for the Future” project is building a large-scale conservation and digitization project to make available 285,000 hours of film, television, and radio recordings, as well as more than 2.9 million photos from the Netherlands’ film and television archives. A […]
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