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Michael Hawthorne

Accessibility and the Digital Humanities - 6 views

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    Unlike the definitional experience with Wikipedia, we are given a hands-on approach with technology influencing the humanities for a specific issue. The article describes the relationship of technology incorperated to make hindered people more accesible with the general activity of reading and the role Digital Humanities plays in intrepurting this interaction. This is a more specialized and focus area for the study but the approach is more practical than theorized.
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Digital newspaper archive hits 5M pages online - CBS News - 2 views

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    This news article by CBS news addresses the success of a digital newspaper archive that is used online by students, researchers, congressional staff and others. The Chronicling America project, the paper described previously, has posted 5 million pages from more than 800 newspapers in 25 states. The project was launched in 2007 by the Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities with 32 state partners. It is notable that the success of this project has been praised by large news companies like CBS.
aearhart

Welcome Topics (Vanderbilt's Curb Center, Coursera, Digital Humanities Scholarship) | H... - 0 views

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    This link leads to a letter from Don Rodrigues, a doctoral student in English at Vanderbilt University. Rodrigues serves as the HASTAC Scholar for Vanderbilt's Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy. This letter addresses the HASTAC community and outlines the purposes and goals for the Curb Center and what Rodrigues will be working on and reporting. These three main ideas are that the Curb Center seeks to identify and strengthen the public interest related to creative enterprise and expressive life, the Curb Center takes a broad definition of the system of creative enterprise and expressive life, and the Curb Center recognizes the importance of bringing different voices and perspectives together.
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