A Cal student has given his own response to providing OpenCourseWare sustainability with an online project-based course that grants real academic credit for student-led development of OpenCourseWare within the existing framework of the university.
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance, created by the Library of Congress, will allow government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve and provide access to digital content.
Diana Taylor discusses the transformation of the archive and proposes a simultaneity in the relationships between the repertoire, the archive, and new forms of knowledge and interaction engendered by digital technologies.
The California Digital Library's mass digitization project is ongoing and has involved collaboration with Google, Microsoft, and the Internet Archive over the past few years.
Digital technologies are changing scholarship in literature, history, and the arts by allowing larger research projects than ever before.
UC Santa Barbara and the University of Alberta created a humanities advocacy site, 4Humanities, which boldly argues that the true potential of the humanities is in what humanists can bring to the digital world, rather than the other way around.
ChronoZoom (a program developed by Roland Saekow and Walter Alvarez of Berkeley’s Earth and Planetary Science Department with the Microsoft Live Lab’s Seadragon Deep Zoom technology) presents a scrollable, zooming, and panning “master timeline” that visually situates human history within geologic and galactic time.
Google's new tool allows users to search datasets of 500 billion words contained in published books in multiple languages, enabling the use of data for complex manipulations and new approaches to academic study.
A recent student published in a paper in the Journal of Electronic Publishing argues for the necessity of basic spam filters for Google Scholar in order to prevent researchers from being fooled by well-keyworded papers.
The MLA conference sparked avid and noteworthy discussion in the blogosphere about what it means to be a Digital Humanist.
