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On Data Refuge This is the text of an essay I contributed to a pamphlet published by Memory of the World. I am deeply grateful to Memory of the World for in...
On Data Refuge This is the text of an essay I contributed to a pamphlet published by Memory of the World. I am deeply grateful to Memory of the World for in...
In the last few months, I’ve become involved in an environmental humanities project that has deeply impacted the way I see my work. At the same time, and eve...
Sometimes librarians ask me how they should start learning all the tools. First, I give them a long, irritating lecture about how resistant I am to the notio...
What follows is a lightly edited version of the talk I gave as part of my interview for the job of Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship on December 4, ...
This talk was given as part of a panel with Stewart Varner and Barbara Rockenbach at the DLF Fall Forum in Vancouver. I had already seen Stewart’s talk in Ka...
This is another not-yet-fully-formed thought. This iteration of the thought came up again through a conversation with Bret Mulligan, a classics professor I w...
Update: It happened — links and slides here Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 1:00-4:45pm Library Company of Philadelphia Cassatt House, 1320 Locust Street Philad...
The question: I’m curious to find people who are encoding coordinates (or standardized addresses) in library records for non-map materials. I know tha...
At a recent conference, I took part in a workshop for Urban Historians entitled “Workshop: Digital Projects from the Ground Up.” The basic structure was for ...
Updated January 2015 This is a draft. It’s not ready. If anyone is reading this, it’s because I’ve succeeded, at least a little bit, in developing a public...