Still under construction for my Clio 1 class project #2, comments are welcome! http://www.davidmckenzie.info/projects/ Please note: I haven’t yet put tags on most items. I will be adding them. Thoughts on a controlled vocabulary? I uploaded some of the documents from Zotero;
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This week’s readings (Week 13) focused on the interrelated, sometimes opposed, issues of copyright and open access in scholarly (and other) communication. I greatly enjoyed all of the readings, but the one that resonated with me most was Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture.
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This week’s readings (Week 12) focused on what can broadly be called “citizen history” or “crowdsourcing”–inviting public participation in the process of creating knowledge, not just waiting to receive the end product. The four articles, Roy Rosenzweig on Wikipedia, Jeff Howe’s Wired
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Of this week’s readings, I found Martyn Jessop’s “Digital Visualization as a Scholarly Activity” [PDF] particularly interesting, as it got me thinking about other class discussions we’ve had about the nature of scholarship, and particularly what counts as scholarship. This article discusses
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This week’s readings (scroll to Week 10) concerned using digital technology to “read” texts in different ways. I use the term “read” in quotation marks to draw attention to it, as this is not what many of us colloquially call reading–that is,
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This week’s readings concerned the question of scholarship in the digital realm. Specifically, what is digital scholarship, and how is it evaluated? As the semester has gone on, we’ve learned how the digital makes a difference in format. As Lev Manovich discussed
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Can be found here.
John and I are this week’s discussion leaders. We’ve been emailing thoughts back and forth, and decided that each of us are posting our own thoughts/questions for the discussion on our respective blogs, and further commenting. So here are my thoughts: We
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In this post, I am answering several questions about my proposal for “Familiar Strangers,” a website about U.S. and Mexican visitors to each others’ countries between 1776 and 1846. Thanks to my lovely wife Laura, Sharon (the professor), Andrea, and my other
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Here is my presentation for class on October 11.