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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…
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The Burning Library
If a library was burning to the ground, and I could only save a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or the book digitally transcribed, then which would I choose? Obviously one could take the book and derive the other two from that with some amount of work.…
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Special Collections and Archives
Yin Liu, in “Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People,” raises an interesting point about the varied ways in which notions of text vary with time by identifying four models: material, structural, semantic, and data. But I wish she would have made more explicit the symbiotic relationship between physical books…
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Hastac and the Collaborative Humanities
Hastac is a digital site for collaboration between people who are involved in at least one of the following: the humanities, arts, science, and technology. As both a platform and a framing device, hastac is primarily great because it consolidates and streamlines collaborative work on much anything that people are passionate about. …
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What is Hastac?
Hastac.org is a social network that is meant for academics, rather than reconnecting with high school friends. The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory brings together academics from all fields to share knowledge and work on projects together. This includes collaborating on projects in the Digital Humanities, which is one of the reasons…