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The DataEDGE Conference, hosted by the UC Berkeley School of Information, takes on 'Big Data,' revealing essential research in the management and analysis of vast information sets.

Big Data has promise for creating new avenues of humanist inquiry, but it must be deployed by skilled thinkers in service of worthwhile questions to make it meaningful.

Boston College introduces MediaKron, a project dedicated to exploring the presentation of multimedia course content.

This summer, the panels that comprise the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display in Washington, D.C. AIDS Quilt Touch is a mobile web application that will allow visitors to Washington, D.C. to locate a specific panel when it is laid out on the National Mall.

As universities continue to make use of Google Book content, the question of copyright vs fair use arises. Is the mass scanning of books copyright infringement or fair use?

In an effort to get the school year started on the right foot, here are a few possibilities the digital humanities can present.

In a recent blog post on Solve for Interesting, writer Alistair makes a strong argument that "Big Data is our generation’s civil rights issue, and we don’t know it."

This two-part post lays out a (simplified) explanation of internet censorship technologies. The first of these gives a broad overview of how the internet works in general.

This two-part post lays out a (simplified) explanation of internet censorship technologies. This, the second post, explains how various censorship techniques can block information on the internet.

Three institutions, located in or around our nation's capital, are leaders of innovation in the digital humanities. This post will highlight a few of their key contributions.