Dan Cohen
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Dan Cohen 
- The Digital Public Library of America, Me, and You (Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:40:43 -0800)
Twenty years ago Roy Rosenzweig imagined a compelling mission for a new institution: “To use digital media and computer technology to democratize history?to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.” I’ve been incredibly lucky to be a part of that mission for over twelve years, at [...] - The Other Academy Awards (Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:03:50 -0800)
Two related problems have been bedeviling the current discussion of new modes of academic work. First, it remains unclear to many academics how we can effectively assess digital scholarship, given its many shapes and sizes and often complex, collaborative production. This problem is receiving so much attention right now that we devoted our entire last [...] - Visualizing the Uniqueness, and Conformity, of Libraries (Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:09:21 -0800)
Tucked away in a presentation on the HathiTrust Digital Library are some fascinating visualizations of libraries by John Wilkin, the Executive Director of HathiTrust and an Associate University Librarian at the University of Michigan. Although I’ve been following the progress of HathiTrust closely, I missed these charts, and I want to highlight them as a [...] - Digital History at the 2013 AHA Meeting (Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:17:03 -0800)
It’s time for my annual list of digital history sessions at the American Historical Association meeting, this year in New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013. This year’s program extends last year’s surging interest in the effect digital media and technology are having on research and the profession. In addition, a special track for the 2013 meeting [...] - Generous Interfaces for Scholarly Sites (Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:56:36 -0800)
From time to time administrators ask me what I think the home page of a university website should look like. I tell them it should look like the music site The Sixty One, which simply puts a giant photograph of a musician or band in your face, stretched (or shrunk) to the size of your [...] - DPLA Audience & Participation Workshop and Hackfest at the Center for History and New Media (Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:09:21 -0800)
On December 6, 2012, the Digital Public Library of America will have two concurrent and interwoven events at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The Audience and Participation workstream will be holding a meeting that will be livestreamed, and next door those interested in fleshing [...] - The Digital Public Library of America: Coming Together (Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:03:33 -0700)
I’m just back from the Digital Public Library of America meeting in Chicago, and like many others I found the experience inspirational. Just two years ago a small group convened at the Radcliffe Institute and came up with a one-sentence sketch for this new library: An open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would [...] - Second Year of Mason?s Digital History Doctoral Research Awards (Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:18:55 -0700)
I just wanted to remind potential doctoral students in history that - The Journal of Digital Humanities Hits Full Stride (Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:59:49 -0700)
If you haven’t checked out the - Treading Water on Open Access (Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:25:43 -0700)
A statement from the governing council of the American Historical Association, September 2012: The American Historical Association voices concerns about recent developments in the debates over ?open access? to research published in scholarly journals. The conversation has been framed by the particular characteristics and economics of science publishing, a landscape considerably different from the terrain [...]
