Cyberinfrastructure

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.

NERCOMP EVENT: Cyberinfrastructure and The Liberal Arts: Institutions and the Future of Discipline-Based Research

Posted February 11th, 2008 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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Since the publication in 2003 of the NSF's Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, there has been much excitement about the idea that we are crossing a major threshold in technological, especially computing, capabilities that enable a new kind of infrastructure, upon which we can build new kinds of research activities, "knowledge environments" and organizations.

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.

The (Uncommon) Challenge of the Cultural Commonwealth

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Gary Wells, Ithaca College
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In reviewing Our Cultural Commonwealth, the report on cyberinfrastructure and the humanities commissioned by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Gary Wells notes "both the allure and anxiety of radical and disruptive change," and wonders if the academy and the broader public will be up to the cultural and financial challenges.

Beyond the ACLS Report: An interview with John Unsworth

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Kevin Guthrie, Ithaka
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John Unsworth chaired the ACLS Commission that authored Our Cultural Commonwealth. In a conversation with Kevin Guthrie, he offers his own well-developed definition of cyberinfrastructure, talks about why and how the needs of the humanities should be considered separately, and explains how the report's framework has been useful already in developing new implementation strategies.

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

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Sayeed Choudhury and Timothy L. Stinson, Johns Hopkins University
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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.

Open Access and Institutional Repositories: The Future of Scholarly Communications

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Greg Crane, Tufts University
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Greg Crane shares his insights in a review of an important report on data-driven scholarship and the supportive infrastructure it requires.

Cyberinfrastructure as Cognitive Scaffolding: The Role of Genre Creation in Knowledge Making

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Janet Murray, Georgia Tech
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This gripping account describes what the process and products of a new cyberscholarship might look like in the age of the Semantic Web, in which cyberinfrastructure’s potential as a "facilitator of a vast social process of meaning making" might be further developed.

Managed Cyber Services as a Cyberinfrastructure Strategy for Smaller Institutions of Higher Education

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Todd Kelley, NITLE
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Todd Kelley takes Francis Starr's recommendations for pooling computing resources across campuses one step further by discussing the advantages of outsourcing managed cyber services: "Bringing institutions with common needs together in a shared organizational network and aggregating many of their common technology needs through cyber services [is] a powerful idea."

The Bates College Imaging Center: A Model for Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Matthew J. Coté, Bates College
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Many themes of this collection are encapsulated within this new facility in an old library at Bates College. Blending a 21st-century codification of Liberal Arts Education, with cyberinfrastructure-ready facilities, the Bates Imaging Center, in Professor Coté’s words, "presents the campus hub for collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, especially those that are computationally intensive, apply visualization techniques, or include graphical or image-based components."
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