BCcampus has just published an article on my work with Stephen Ross and Agile Humanities to develop the Open Modernisms Book Builder project–with collaboration from the entire Open Modernisms team. This open source, freely available platform allows students and professors to upload out-of-copyright material to a central repository. Items can then be collated into a course pack that can be… Read more →
The MLA has released its long-awaited guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship: http://www.mla.org/guidelines_evaluation_digital The following guidelines are designed to help departments and faculty members implement effective evaluation procedures for hiring, reappointment, tenure, and promotion. They apply to scholars working with digital media as their subject matter and to those who use digital methods or whose work takes digital form. Read more →
My Research Assistant, Kaarina Mikalson, has just posted a lovely blog piece on copyright over at the EMiC blog. She shares some great resources with the community (especially for Canadian scholars): http://editingmodernism.ca/2012/04/fun-with-copyright/ Read more →
Originally posted on 24 Sept. 2011 at EMiC I have been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Editing Modernism in Canada for just over a year now, so it gives me great pleasure at this midpoint in my position to announce two major partnership agreements signed last week. First, EMiC has finalized it contract with Islandora at the University of Prince… Read more →
On June 9, 2010, Wired.com ran a story announcing the intention of DARPA, the experimental research arm of the United States Department of Defense, to create “mission planning software” based on the popular tax-filing software, Turbotax. What fascinated the DoD was that Turbotax “encoded” a high level of knowledge expertise into its software allowing people with “limited knowledge of [the] tax… Read more →