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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.
CFP: CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) Conference: Digital Archive Fever, November 2007
Posted May 16th, 2007 by Jennifer Curran, Academic Commons
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We pass along this call for papers which has appeared on a number of listservs...
CHArt (Computers and the History of Art)
23rd Annual Conference
DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER
Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007
London England - Venue to be confirmed
Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of such "top-down" institutions in the age of "bottom-up" access to knowledge and cultural artifacts through what is generally known as Web 2.0 (encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google, MySpace and more)? Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance?
