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TOOLS FOR DATA-DRIVEN SCHOLARSHIP, co-hosted by George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), is an invitation-only event, convening leaders in the creation of digital tools and related services.

A MITH Digital Dialogue Tuesday, October 21, 12:30-1:45 MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library “Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy.” by Kathleen Fitzpatrick Much attention has been paid in recent years to the digital future of scholarship, and in particularly to the technological and infrastructural development necessary to new publishing structures. This talk will argue, however, that there is a set of social, intellectual, and institutional changes that will be a precondition for any such technological development to succeed, requiring scholars to think differently about the ways we write, the ways we publish, and the ways we review, in order to make any digital publishing future a reality. Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of English and Media Studies and chair of the Media Studies program at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She is the author of “The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television” (Vanderbilt UP, 2006), which was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2007 by CHOICE. She serves on the editorial board of the Pearson Custom Introduction to Literature database anthology, as well as of the Journal of e-Media Studies and the Journal of Transformative Works, and is a member of the executive committee of the MLA Discussion Group on Media and Literature. She is currently working on a book-length project, to be published by New York University Press, entitled “Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy.” Coming up @MITH 10/28: Matthew Kirschenbaum (English and MITH), “War (and) Games” View MITH’s complete Digital Dialogues schedule here: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_fall_2008.pdf All talks free and open to the public! Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith@umd.edu, 5-8927).

This site is a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner. Recognizing that the effort would require specialized expertise, two separate working groups were formed with the possibility that more tightly focused groups might be necessary as the work progressed. The Federal Agencies Still Image Digitization Working Group will concentrate its efforts on image content such as books, manuscripts, maps, and photographic prints and negatives. The Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group is focusing its work on sound, video, and motion picture film.

MeAggregator is a JISC funded project allowing the user to integrate and disseminate information from a wide range of institutional and third party sources, incorporating a peer trust model and folksonomological ontologies.

Any set of statistics about word frequencies in Latin will inevitably be, in the absence of a survey covering all classical texts (however one might define "classical" or "text"), a function of the specific works and passages chosen for the database. This collection is drawn from two word counts made much earlier in this century...

Bibliography assembled by the Project Bamboo community: Nature of and Problems in Digital Humanities, Digital Resources and Tools in Humanities Scholarship, Scholarly Communication and the Library, Digital Humanities Projects, Digital Humanities Journals, Business Models for Digital Humanities, Cyberinfrastructure

The adoption and growth of the scientific journal system has created a body of shared knowledge for our civilization, a collective long-term memory which is the basis for much of human progress. This system has changed surprisingly little in the last 300 years. The internet offers us the first major opportunity to improve this collective long-term memory, and to create a collective short-term working memory, a conversational commons for the rapid collaborative development of ideas.