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Brett Boessen

Xefer Wikipedia Radial Graph - 0 views

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    This site mines Wikipedia to return which first links on each page deliver you to the "philosophy" wikipedia entry.
Rebecca Davis

Blog U.: Conferences and Unconferences - Library Babel Fish - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Barbara Fister's blog post on conferences includes THATCampLAC, the "pinnacle of awesomeness"
Dave Carroll

academhack - Thoughts on Emerging Media and Higher Education - 0 views

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    Dave Parry is a favorite of @bboessen. Interested in archiving, "post-print" society and emerging media projects.
Rebecca Davis

techMETRO: NYPL Labs presents: Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries - 0 views

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    upcoming event at New York Public Library
Dave Carroll

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - 0 views

shared by Dave Carroll on 07 Jun 11 - Cached
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    @reidriggle is a fan of this Dept. of Education partnership with the personal computing industry. Founded 2002, and largely oriented on pre-tertiary education. Not directly applicable to the academy, but a potential resource.
Rebecca Davis

A Scientist Walks into a THATCamp… | Heather M. Whitney - 0 views

  • The ethos of THATCamp fits this need in some way. Put together a bunch of like-minded people who meet up at a low-stakes (and low-cost) situation and ask them to come up with their best ideas. Crowdsource those ideas and let the group weigh in on where, when, and how to discuss them. It’s chaotic, but it can work wonders.
  • How do I start to build a body of information, practical tips, how to’s, etc.,  that can be passed on from a student that is with me now to the one that will work with me next summer? How do we, at our very small school, start to be good stewards of an upcoming big equipment install, when at larger ones the associated maintenance tasks would be taken on by full-time staff? 
  • Who else out there feels a bit isolated and would like to cultivate a community of like-minded physicists at small schools, so that we can work together on potential grant proposals? How do we actually collaborate on these proposals?
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  • They are part of the work of being a faculty member at an student-focused undergraduate institution in which research is an expectation.
  • including a carefully articulated identity so that attendees comes with a shared, distinct purpose.
Rebecca Davis

McKinsey & Company - Report - Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, ... - 0 views

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    Report from McKinsey Global Institute on future of big data with some discussion of methods
Rebecca Davis

Hacking the Academy - 0 views

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    table of contents for forthcoming volume from CHNM, Hacking the Academy with sections on hacking, scholarship teaching, institutions
Rebecca Davis

Inclusion and DH - THATCamp CHNM 2011 - Google Docs - 0 views

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    Inclusion and digital humanities--how do we expand this community
Rebecca Davis

Tools for Exploring Text: Natural Language Processing « Text Mining and the D... - 2 views

  • hopefully I’ve managed to advance the case for considering sophisticated language processing like this part of the natural toolkit of the digital humanities.
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      How about all the humanities, not just the digital humanities?
Brett Boessen

You Are What You Click - Sven Birkerts - The American Interest Magazine - 0 views

  • Every bit as chilling as Shirky’s argument is the blitheness with which he accepts—no, rejoices in—the withering away of a whole culture, centuries in the making.
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      Wow.  That's pretty revealing.
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