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Making the Humanities Digital
Thoughts on the Digital Humanities Impact on Academia When fundamental assumptions change, the product should change as well. The new medium both adds and removes constraints, fundamentally changing the nature of the ‘optimal’ product being delivered. A classic example is how the newspaper is slowly being reworked to take advantage of the internet and remove…
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Blog Post 2
The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why? To make…
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Scenario: Library on Fire?
I am sitting in Dartmouth’s library writing an essay when all of a sudden a fire breaks out. Firefighters run into the building and order everyone to evacuate the premises. It is clear that the building will be demolished by the flames and that there is no chance to save all of the books and…
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Open Up
“The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why?” If…