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Digital Image Interview Series: Hank Glassman
Posted February 8th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Digital Image Interview Series
Hank Glassman, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Haverford College
Hank Glassman teaches Buddhism, Religion and Gender, East Asian Religions, Japanese Literature, Language, and History. Images have become increasingly important in his teaching on Japanese language, history, and culture and in his research on Japanese religions in the medieval period. He constantly struggles with how best to display images in his classes and how to help students engage them as texts.
Academic Commons: Tell me a little about your ambitions for using digital images and what the transition has been like.
Glassman: First, I've been at Haverford for six years and I have to say that for three of those years it was very much a struggle to bring digital images into the classroom. I was very dissatisfied with the options-software, hardware, and support; it was very difficult to get material scanned at the resolutions I requested and there was a real absence of a support system or of specialists able to manage digital images. But then everything changed and now I cannot complain. First we had MDID and now we're moving to ARTstor and we have a terrific level of support. I'm very pleased by the direction everything is going.
Hank Glassman, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Haverford College
Hank Glassman teaches Buddhism, Religion and Gender, East Asian Religions, Japanese Literature, Language, and History. Images have become increasingly important in his teaching on Japanese language, history, and culture and in his research on Japanese religions in the medieval period. He constantly struggles with how best to display images in his classes and how to help students engage them as texts.
Academic Commons: Tell me a little about your ambitions for using digital images and what the transition has been like.
Glassman: First, I've been at Haverford for six years and I have to say that for three of those years it was very much a struggle to bring digital images into the classroom. I was very dissatisfied with the options-software, hardware, and support; it was very difficult to get material scanned at the resolutions I requested and there was a real absence of a support system or of specialists able to manage digital images. But then everything changed and now I cannot complain. First we had MDID and now we're moving to ARTstor and we have a terrific level of support. I'm very pleased by the direction everything is going.
Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age
Posted September 27th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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An interesting study by two art historians (Hilary Ballon at Columbia
and Mariet Westermann at NYU) examining the obstacles to successful
electronic publication of art history has now been made available as a
course on Rice University's CONNEXIONS website: http://cnx.org/content/col10376/latest/.
The study, "Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age,†was nicely discussed by Jennifer Howard in her article in the Chronicle of Higher Educationthis summer: "Picture Imperfect,†(August 4, 2006) http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i48/48a01201.htm.
The study, "Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age,†was nicely discussed by Jennifer Howard in her article in the Chronicle of Higher Educationthis summer: "Picture Imperfect,†(August 4, 2006) http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i48/48a01201.htm.
TODAY - U.S. Fair Use Lecture
Posted September 20th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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A promising lecture on Fair Use is being webcast from Washington
College of Law. All reports are that Judge Kozinski should not be
missed.
Thursday Sept 21, 2006.
6pm American University Washington College of Law's
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Presents
The Second Annual Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property
The Honorable Alex Kozinski Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
"Fair Use Revisitedâ€
September 21, 2006
Reception ~ 5:00 PM | Lecture ~ 6:00 PM
Washington College of Law, 4801 Mass Ave NW | Room 603
REGISTRATION
Email: iplecture@wcl.american.edu
Phone: 202-274-4148
www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/Kozinski.cfm
WEBCAST
We will be providing a streaming and on demand webcast of the lecture for those who are unable to make it to Washington. The webcast will be available at www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm.
Thursday Sept 21, 2006.
6pm American University Washington College of Law's
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Presents
The Second Annual Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property
The Honorable Alex Kozinski Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
"Fair Use Revisitedâ€
September 21, 2006
Reception ~ 5:00 PM | Lecture ~ 6:00 PM
Washington College of Law, 4801 Mass Ave NW | Room 603
REGISTRATION
Email: iplecture@wcl.american.edu
Phone: 202-274-4148
www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/Kozinski.cfm
WEBCAST
We will be providing a streaming and on demand webcast of the lecture for those who are unable to make it to Washington. The webcast will be available at www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm.
British Report: Copyright Hindering Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Posted September 19th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Here, courtesy of CNI, is the announcement of a report from the British
Academy on the impact of copyright issues on the current state of
humanities and social science:
COPYRIGHT HINDERING SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Date: 18 September 2006
"A report from the British Academy, launched on 18 September, expresses fears that the copyright system may in important respects be impeding, rather than stimulating, the production of new ideas and new scholarship in the humanities and social sciences....â€
See http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/release.asp?NewsID=219
COPYRIGHT HINDERING SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Date: 18 September 2006
"A report from the British Academy, launched on 18 September, expresses fears that the copyright system may in important respects be impeding, rather than stimulating, the production of new ideas and new scholarship in the humanities and social sciences....â€
See http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/release.asp?NewsID=219
Digital Image Interview Series: Ann Burke
Posted December 11th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Digital Image Interview Series (November 2006)
Ann C. Burke, Associate Professor of Biology, Wesleyan University
Ann Burke teaches evolutionary and developmental biology at Wesleyan University. Her image-intensive classes now also use animations and she looks forward to using 3-D images in the near-future. In 2005, she developed, with the Wesleyan University Learning Object Studio, an animation of the Body Wall Formation of the Chick Embryo, which has provided a useful link between her teaching and research.
Academic Commons: What would you say the chief impact has been in using digital images?
Burke: Because what I teach (anatomy, embryology, evolution) is extremely visual, I have always used a lot of images. Searching for images on the web, mostly using Google Images, really has changed things for me. Things that I wouldn't have done before because it was too much work, like digging out the exact picture I thought I wanted from the library but then might not use, is now no problem. Literally you can sit and Google just about anything you want and come up with an image and import it into PowerPoint and that's a tremendous boon. I used to have big books of slides accumulated at great expense of time and money and now they're in the closet. So I don't know whether it fundamentally changes anything, but it just makes it much easier, so I can do more.
Ann C. Burke, Associate Professor of Biology, Wesleyan University
Ann Burke teaches evolutionary and developmental biology at Wesleyan University. Her image-intensive classes now also use animations and she looks forward to using 3-D images in the near-future. In 2005, she developed, with the Wesleyan University Learning Object Studio, an animation of the Body Wall Formation of the Chick Embryo, which has provided a useful link between her teaching and research.
Academic Commons: What would you say the chief impact has been in using digital images?
Burke: Because what I teach (anatomy, embryology, evolution) is extremely visual, I have always used a lot of images. Searching for images on the web, mostly using Google Images, really has changed things for me. Things that I wouldn't have done before because it was too much work, like digging out the exact picture I thought I wanted from the library but then might not use, is now no problem. Literally you can sit and Google just about anything you want and come up with an image and import it into PowerPoint and that's a tremendous boon. I used to have big books of slides accumulated at great expense of time and money and now they're in the closet. So I don't know whether it fundamentally changes anything, but it just makes it much easier, so I can do more.
Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions
Posted October 30th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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David Green's study focuses on the pedagogical implications of the widespread use of the digital format for images. While the core of the study involved changes in the teaching-learning dynamic and the teacher-student relationship, related issues concerning supply, support and infrastructure rapidly became part of its fabric. In addition to the report, the site contains a set of one-on one-interviews with faculty on how digital changes everything.
Digital Image Interview Series: Robert Nelson
Posted November 30th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Digital Image Interview Series November, 2006
Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Robert Nelson studies and teaches medieval art at Yale University. He came to Yale in 2005, after a long and distinguished career at the University of Chicago. It was there that he started teaching with digital images, and he has not looked back. He is co-curator of the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, on display at the Getty Museum through March 4, 2007.
Academic Commons: Let's start by asking about your own engagement with digital images.
Nelson: I'm very interested in this because I've written about the history of the slide lecture and so I'm actually quite interested in this transition.[1] The coming of slides transformed art history and I believe this will make not the same transition, the same revolution, but it's definitely going to make a big change.
Art history is frozen in a certain technological state. There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. Whereas film went on to many other things - there were talking pictures, there were DVDs and many more manifestations, and now art history will move into that larger realm.
So how is it changing what you're doing in the classroom ?
Well it's changing many things. But first I'd like to say why I've made the switch. I told people when I first arrived here [2005] I'm not going to show a slide at Yale University. Come hell or high water, no matter what happens, I'm not going to show a slide at Yale University! So, I've completely made the switch. And the reason is that students learn much better. That is the most important reason.
Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Robert Nelson studies and teaches medieval art at Yale University. He came to Yale in 2005, after a long and distinguished career at the University of Chicago. It was there that he started teaching with digital images, and he has not looked back. He is co-curator of the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, on display at the Getty Museum through March 4, 2007.
Academic Commons: Let's start by asking about your own engagement with digital images.
Nelson: I'm very interested in this because I've written about the history of the slide lecture and so I'm actually quite interested in this transition.[1] The coming of slides transformed art history and I believe this will make not the same transition, the same revolution, but it's definitely going to make a big change.
Art history is frozen in a certain technological state. There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. Whereas film went on to many other things - there were talking pictures, there were DVDs and many more manifestations, and now art history will move into that larger realm.
So how is it changing what you're doing in the classroom ?
Well it's changing many things. But first I'd like to say why I've made the switch. I told people when I first arrived here [2005] I'm not going to show a slide at Yale University. Come hell or high water, no matter what happens, I'm not going to show a slide at Yale University! So, I've completely made the switch. And the reason is that students learn much better. That is the most important reason.
Emerging Libraries Conference: March 5-7, 2007
Posted November 13th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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There's a terrific line-up of those thinking about the future of libraries at a subsidized conference at Rice University next March. For just $35 you can hear John Seely Brown, Brewster Kahle, Dan Atkins, Bill Wulf, Harold Varmus, Neal Lane, Paul Ginsparg and others lead thinking about how libraries may be evolving in the future.
De Lange Conference on Emerging Libraries March 5-7, 2007 Rice University, Houston, Texas
http://delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm
De Lange Conference on Emerging Libraries March 5-7, 2007 Rice University, Houston, Texas
http://delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm
Mellon Foundation Closes Research in Information Technology Grant Program
Posted January 5th, 2010 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today on the closure of Mellon's Research in Information Technology program.
Potential New Image Searcher
Posted August 19th, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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New VRA White Paper: Advocating for Visual Resources Management in Educational and Cultural Institutions
Posted October 28th, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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The Visual Resources Association (VRA) has just released a White Paper on the management and use of image resources: Advocating for Visual Resources Management in Educational and Cultural Institutions.
The paper encourages "holistic thinking" about meeting institutional and individual image user needs in educational/cultural institutions. It identifies six strategic areas for future planning: multiple image sources; integrating personal and institutional collections; social computing and collaborative projects; life-cycle continuum of image assets and their description; rights and copyright compliance; and visual literacy.
GIS in the Humanities: A questionnaire and free workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching
Posted October 27th, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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In preparation for a free Dec 16th workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching to be held in the UK, the University of Leicester has a brief survey it is asking the GIS constituency to complete at http://www.hgis.org.uk/splint/. For more info on the workshop, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/gis_workshop/gis
Springer Launches Innovative Publisher-Based Image Collection
Posted October 13th, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com), an international scholarly publisher based in Germany but operating in 20 countries, has launched SpringerImageshttp://www.springerimages.com/ .
Tech Review: A Better Way to Rank Expertise Online
Posted July 31st, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Brittany Sauser in Technology Review reports on a new algorithm developed to help social media users better determine the trustworthiness of posters.
Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
Posted June 15th, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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"Digital humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated."
Thus begins the Digital Humanities Manifesto a document originally authored by Todd Presner (UCLA) and Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford), for the Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities.
MacArthur Foundation Commits $50 Million to Digital Media and Education
Posted October 19th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Building on its substantial work in this arena already the MacArthur Foundation has just announced
a five-year program to fund "research and innovative projects focused
on understanding the impact of the widespread use of digital media on
our youth and how they learn.†Although geared toward the
8-18-year-old population, the project could have implications for
college media education.
A white paper by MIT's Henry Jenkins is also released today to mark this announcement.
A white paper by MIT's Henry Jenkins is also released today to mark this announcement.
"Who Owns This Image?" Public Presentation and Debate: NYC Tues April 29, 6:30pm
Posted April 14th, 2008 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Who Owns This Image?
Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel
Public Panel Discussion Cosponsored by: Art Law Committee, New York City Bar Association, College Art Association, ARTstor Creative Commons
Panelists: Dr. Theodore Feder, President, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society Christopher Lyon, Executive Editor, Prestel Publishing William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Hon. Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit Maureen Whalen, Associate General Counsel, J. Paul Getty Trust Moderator: Virginia Rutledge, Chair, Art Law Committee, New York City Bar
Conference: Designs on eLearning, London, UK, (Sept 14-16)
Posted May 1st, 2005 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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University of the Arts, London, UK, presents Designs on eLearning , September 14th 2005 - September 16th 2005. Designs on eLearning, the inaugural international conference in the use of technology for teaching and learning in Art, Design and Communication will be held at the University of the Arts, London between 14 and 16 September 2005. The conference aims to cast light on established practice in the field, on innovations in teaching and learning with technology, on the challenges and successes presented by the visual nature of our discipline, and on the benefits of online and blended learning.
Visual Resources Association
Posted June 6th, 2005 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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The Visual Resources Association is a multi-disciplinary community of image management professionals working in educational and cultural heritage environments. The Association is committed to providing leadership in the field, developing and advocating standards, and providing educational tools and opportunities for its members. The Association offers a forum for issues of vital concern to the membership, including documentation and access to images of visual culture, integration of technology-based instruction and research, and intellectual property policy. Through collaboration and partnership with the broader information management and educational technology communities, the Association actively supports the primacy of visual culture in the educational experience.
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Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation
Posted June 6th, 2005 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation is devoted to the study of images and their use. Those images which depict architecture and works of art are of primary concern. The process by which these images are made, organized and ultimately utilized is investigated. This journal explores how visual language is structured and visual meaning communicated and also illustrates how picture collections are acquired, organized, indexed, and preserved. Its scope delves into the past and looks toward the future. Included herein is an analysis of how reproductive images have influenced the perception of art, and how the interpretation of images has affected academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, history, and particularly art and architectural history.
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Conference: Small Tools/Big Ideas (technology and art history), October 7, 2005
Posted May 1st, 2005 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Small Tools/Big Ideas (October 7, 2005) is a conference on the discipline-specific technologies reshaping the practice of teaching art and art history, to be held at The Fashion Institute of Technology, W 27th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, New York. More information at http://www3.fitnyc.edu/bigideas
Ideas Please for the Obama CTO
Posted November 17th, 2008 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Vote, vote, vote - for ideas, now that we have a President Elect...and a soon-to-be-announced CTO for the nation.
MLA report highlights need for "more capacious conception of scholarship"
Posted March 1st, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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In February 28's Humanist,
Ian Lancashire reports his amazed discovery of the figures on the
capacity of doctoral institutions to assess e-articles and e-monographs
as reported in the Dec 2006 Modern Language Association's Report on
Tenure and Promotion (executive summary at
http://www.mla.org/pdf/tenure_summary.pdf).
There, Lancashire discovered that 40.8% of doctoral institutions "have no experience in evaluating e-articles, and 65.7% have no experience in evaluating e-monographs."
One of the recommendations of the report that Lancashire highlights is a "more capacious conception of scholarship." The report further urges institutions to recognize the "legitimacy of scholarship produced in new media."
There, Lancashire discovered that 40.8% of doctoral institutions "have no experience in evaluating e-articles, and 65.7% have no experience in evaluating e-monographs."
One of the recommendations of the report that Lancashire highlights is a "more capacious conception of scholarship." The report further urges institutions to recognize the "legitimacy of scholarship produced in new media."
Boucher-Dolittle "Digital Fair Use" Act Introduced to House
Posted February 28th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Ars Technica calls Representative Rick Boucher's (D-VA) new "Fair Use" Act a watered-down version of his 2003 DMCRA (see http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/hr1201) that failed due to considerable industry opposition.
Certainly a good move, supported by the library associations as well as by the Consumer Electronics Association, the new act principally codifies recent exemptions granted to the currently hard-edged Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), but stops short in offering "clear protection for making personal use copies of encrypted materials."
See http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070227-8934.html
Certainly a good move, supported by the library associations as well as by the Consumer Electronics Association, the new act principally codifies recent exemptions granted to the currently hard-edged Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), but stops short in offering "clear protection for making personal use copies of encrypted materials."
See http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070227-8934.html
Flickrology
Posted March 29th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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With over 1 billion photos in play and an estimated 11,000 images served per second on a busy day, Flickr is an increasingly important image resource. There's been a recent flurry of discussion on some lists and blogs about using Flickr to share images within institutions or nonprofit groups.
HCIL Symposium May 31, University of Maryland
Posted May 29th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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The 24th annual symposium of the always-compelling Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland is this Thursday May 31. An interesting program, though it seems no webcast will be available.
6,000 Smithsonian Images Available on Flickr
Posted June 1st, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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As part of its mission to advocate for posting more government information online, Public.Resource.Org (http://public.resource.org/) is challenging the copyrights asserted on images held and sold by the Smithsonian Institution.
Instead
of suing the Smithsonian, the group has downloaded over 6,000 images
from the Smithsonian's intricate website and has posted them on Flickr
at http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/, claiming that most are public domain images.
Bowdoin one of 16 schools selected for iTunes U launch
Posted June 1st, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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iTunes U was
launched May 30 with free downloadable audio and video from a selection
of universities and one undergraduate institution - Bowdoin College.
Available on the iTunes site are lectures, language lessons, sports
highlights, campus tours and interviews. The Bowdoin material includes
guided audio-video tours through the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum;
material from several courses; a video of Bowdoin's world-competitive
team of soccer-playing robot dogs; and public talks by visiting
speakers such as Robert Reich, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Tracy Kidder.
See Bowdoin's announcement at http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/004167.shtml
A full list of schools included in the launch: Arizona State University, Bowdoin College, Concordia Seminary, Duke University, Michigan Tech University, MIT, NJIT, Otis College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania State University, Queen's University, Seattle Pacific University, Stanford University, Texas A&M, University of California Berkeley, University of Maryland Baltimore County and University of South Florida.
See Bowdoin's announcement at http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/004167.shtml
A full list of schools included in the launch: Arizona State University, Bowdoin College, Concordia Seminary, Duke University, Michigan Tech University, MIT, NJIT, Otis College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania State University, Queen's University, Seattle Pacific University, Stanford University, Texas A&M, University of California Berkeley, University of Maryland Baltimore County and University of South Florida.
Collaborative Tools: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
Posted July 30th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Collaborative web-based tools are gathering sophistication and traction. Digital Library Federation Director Peter Brantley points out that while Trinity College, Dublin, has adopted Gmail whole hog, the University of California at Berkeley, in a detailed report on Web tool offerings by Google and Microsoft,
finds that they are generally not quite ready for adoption. The report
suggests though that as the software improves, and as legal and privacy
issues are seriously addressed, it won't be long before many more
individuals and institutions will be collaborating using these online
tools.
Cyberinfrastructure on Campus: Aug 2 Educause Live Event
Posted July 30th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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The latest Educause Live event, planned for Thursday August 2, is a talk by UC Davis CIO Peter Siegel on Cyberinfrastructure: A Campus Perspective on What It Is and Why You Should Care.
CI, as it is known, is gathering quite a head of steam since the NSF published its first report in 2003. Since then 27 related reports have been released by others on CI and its impacts on different disciplines, including NSF's own succinct and polished Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery.
And stay tuned: Academic Commons will be presenting a special issue on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts this fall.
Profiles of Key Cyberinfrastructure Organizations
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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We present here a collection of short profiles, specially written for
Academic Commons, on key service organizations and networks that will
be poised to assist and lead others who are working to bring a rich
cyberinfrastructure into play. Some are older humanities organizations
for which cyberinfrastructure is a totally new environment, others have
been created specifically around the provision of digital resources and
support.
Museums, Cataloging & Content Infrastructure: An Interview with Kenneth Hamma
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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The architect of digital policy at the Getty Trust shares his conviction that building the digital "content infrastructure" depends on the contributions of thousands of smaller institutions that individually lack human and technological resources necessary for the task. Cyberinfrastructure could facilitate distributed cataloging and much wider distribution of museum holdings that would have a major impact on scholarship and teaching. However, a significant challenge remains that of the muddying of museums’ educational mission with notions of gatekeeping and income generation from the objects in their care.
Cyberinfrastructure: Leveraging Change at our Institutions. An interview with James J. O'Donnell
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Provost O'Donnell, author of Avatars of the Word, is fascinated by how "institutions full of creative, innovative, iconoclastic people" are paradoxically "bastions of conservatism." Guiding us through the texture of change since the Internet hit 15 years ago, O"Donnell posits that incremental change is perhaps the best we can do until the fundamental instruments of scholarly communication and the academic reward structure change: "until the problem we have to solve is defined persuasively enough that we get enough people interested in solving it."
Academic Commons Table of Contents: December 2007
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Cyberinfrastructure
and the Liberal Arts
A Special Issue, edited by David L. Green
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.
INTRODUCTION
A
Cyberinfrastructure for Us All
By David L. Green,
Knowledge Culture
Made
possible by dramatic advances in networking technologies,
cyberinfrastructure promises to combine new computing capabilities,
massive data resources and distributed human expertise to enable
qualitatively different creative product from new generations of
"knowledge environments." Introducing this timely collection of
observations on how this will affect liberal arts disciplines and
institutions, David Green reviews the distance we've come in the last
15 years and identifies the main themes of the essays, interviews and
reviews that follow.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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A discussion of cyberinfrastructure would be incomplete without noting the Mellon Foundation; their grants have made possible many of the advances covered within Academic Commons.
From their website:
"The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in six core program areas: Higher Education and Scholarship; Scholarly Communications; Research in Information Technology; Museums and Art Conservation; Performing Arts; Conservation and the Environment.""Within each of its core programs, the Foundation concentrates most of its grantmaking in a few areas. Institutions and programs receiving support are often leaders in fields of Foundation activity, but they may also be promising newcomers, or in a position to demonstrate new ways of overcoming obstacles to achieve program goals."
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Cyberinfrastructure For Us All: An Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts
Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Made possible by dramatic advances in networking technologies, cyberinfrastructure promises to combine new computing capabilities, massive data resources and distributed human expertise to enable qualitatively different creative product from new generations of "knowledge environments." Introducing this timely collection of observations on how this will affect liberal arts disciplines and institutions, David Green reviews the distance we've come in the last 15 years and identifies the main themes of the essays, interviews and reviews that follow.
Open Source Software Tools: Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
Posted December 11th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Tim Berners-Lee presented the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC) yesterday at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). $650,000 in prize money went to 10 nonprofits for "leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with application to scholarship in the arts and humanities."
While more information is available on the CNI site, the winners are as follows:
- American Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY: www.movingimage.us) for the development and release of the OpenCollection museum collection management system (www.opencollection.org) [$100,000].
- Duke University (Durham, NC: www.duke.edu) for leadership and development work on the OpenCroquet open source 3-D virtual worlds environment (www.opencroquet.org)[$100,000].
- Open Polytechnic of New Zealand (Wellington, NZ: www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz) for leadership and development work on several open source projects including the New Zealand Open Source Virtual Learning Environment (http://eduforge.org/projects/nzvle/) [$100,000].
- Georgia Public Library Service of the University System of Georgia (Atlanta, GA: www.georgialibraries.org) for the development and release of the Evergreen open-source library automation system (www.open-ils.org) [$50,000].
- Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT: www.middlebury.edu) for the development and release of the Segue interactive learning management system [$50,000].
- Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA: www.participatoryculture.org) for the development and release of the open source Miro media player (www.getmiro.com) [$50,000].
- Talboks-och Punkstkriftsbiblioteket (The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille: Enskede, Sweden: www.tpb.se) for the development and release of open source tools supporting the Daisy Project for talking books for the visually impaired [$50,000].
- University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, IL: www.illinois.edu): one award for the development and release of the Firefox Accessibility Extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1891) [$50,000]; and one award for the development and release of the OpenEAI enterprise application integration project (www.openEAI.org) [$50,000].
- University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario: www.utoronto.ca) for the development and release of the ATutor learning management system (www.atutor.ca) [$50,000].
LC Draft Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control
Posted December 6th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Lorcan Dempsey points us to an important draft report from the
Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control that emphasizes the crucial need to enable smart connections between currently separate silos of cataloging. Here's the heart of the project:
Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control that emphasizes the crucial need to enable smart connections between currently separate silos of cataloging. Here's the heart of the project:
Different communities of bibliographic practice have grown up around different resource types: library collections of books and journals, archives, journal articles, and museum objects and images. As these resources and others become increasingly accessible through the Web, separation of the communities of practice that manage them is no longer desirable, sustainable, or functional. Bibliographic control is increasingly a matter of managing relationships—among works, names, concepts, and object descriptions—across communities. Consistency of description within any single environment, such as the library catalog, is becoming less significant than the ability to make connections between environments: Amazon to WorldCat to Google to PubMed to Wikipedia, with library holdings serving as but one node in this web of connectivity. In today's environment, bibliographic control cannot continue to be seen as limited to library catalogs. [Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control PDF]
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