The Academic Commons Magazine

December 2007: Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts

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We dedicate this issue to the memory of Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), an extraordinary historian who inspired a generation of fellow historians and others working at the intersection of the humanities and new technologies.

From the Archives

The Virtual Observatory and the Roman de la Rose: Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative Imperative

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Scientists were not always good collaborators. In pondering the "unprecedented convergence of interest across C.P. Snow's Two Cultures in the promise of cyberinfrastructure and of data-driven research," the computer scientist/digital librarian Sayeed Choudhury and medieval scholar Timothy Stinson propose a new relationship between humanities scholars, their resources and their colleagues.