Is there a workaround that allows libraries to make digitized copies of some copyrighted material publicly accessible? Looks that way. The Internet Archive (the geniuses behind the Wayback Machine) and a crack copyright scholar are testing the limits of a little-known section of the copyright code.
(N.B. I hadn't written for Slate for a while, and I'm thrilled to be contributing now to Slate's Future Tense.) Read More at Slate »Journalism
“Pop Up Archive Filled a Need for Audio Archiving, and Apple Noticed”
"Whatever lies ahead, during its five-year existence Pop Up Archive helped accelerate a collective and rapidly evolving effort to get a handle on audio archives, accidental or otherwise. That Pop Up Archive won the intense support it did in a short time span speaks to the pressing need felt not just by radio producers and broadcasters but by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, too." Read More at Humanities »
“What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like”
Has it really been 10 years? The Office of Digital Humanities at the NEH celebrated a decade of supporting seminal digital scholarship recently, and I was there to mark the occasion. Read More at EdSurge »
“The Character of Its Content”
My alma mater's alumni magazine asked me to profile Peter Dougherty, the outgoing director of Princeton University Press, and I was happy to oblige. Read More at Princeton Alumni Weekly »
“Campus Libraries Are Centers of Information, But Not of Diversity (At Least Among Librarians)
My writeup of a new report from Ithaka S&R, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, about diversity (or the persistent lack thereof) among librarians at research universities, in spite of a number of attempts to improve the situation. Read More at EdSurge »
