The Pool featured in digital learning anthology
The Pool is one of the software packages showcased in Trebor Scholz’s 2011 anthology Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, along with Facebook, Tumblr, and Second...
View ArticleU-Me to launch Digital Curation program in fall 2012
The University of Maine is poised to launch an innovative graduate program in digital curation, beginning September 2012. The online, 18-credit curriculum aims to train anyone who works with digitized...
View ArticleFlorianopolis Keynote: “Trusting Amateurs with the Future”
Which is the oldest human record? In his keynote presentation to the National Symposium of Brazilian Cyberculture, Jon Ippolito argues it is lurking in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil is a country on...
View ArticleAre footnotes obsolete? Craig Dietrich at SCMS
Screengrab of Debra Levine’s DEMONSTRATING ACT UP Scalar project Are footnotes obsolete? At this month’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Craig Dietrich suggests crediting other...
View ArticleDigital Curation graduate program to launch September 2012
The Digital Curation program is a two-year graduate certificate, taught online, intended for professionals working in museums, archives, artist studios, government offices, and anywhere that people...
View ArticleDigital Curation summit asks, what do today’s curators need to know?
Whether they manage bits for their local historical society or the Library of Congress, the digital era has placed added demands on today’s curators. The growing need for training in these new skills...
View ArticleRandom Penguin book covers make a splash
A contagious media project by John Bell remixing famous book covers has taken flight, visualizing the literary possibilities attending the recent merger of Random House and Penguin Books. As reported...
View ArticleWhat good is knowledge that can’t be shared?
Maine Public Radio highlights the debate over open access to scholarly publications in conversation with Still Water’s Jon Ippolito and his fellow colleagues from the University of Maine. In a story...
View ArticleNew course teaches how to put your digital collection online
It’s hard to find a collecting institution that doesn’t have a Web site these days, and you’re going to need to know MySQL and PHP to run most of them. But training as an archivist or librarian...
View ArticleThe Ex-files: how long will our software last?
Is DOOM doomed? Should we say our last words for Word? Will Mozilla be a dinosaur? These questions echoed through the Montpelier room of the Library of Congress earlier this week during...
View ArticleDigital Curation tuition now discounted for *all* distant students!
Sharpening your digital skills just got a lot more accessible, thanks to a huge discount in tuition pricing for the University of Maine’s Digital Curation online courses. Last January, the Digital...
View ArticleWhen homework is real work: Digital Curation students help preserve media art
Graduate students in the University of Maine’s Digital Curation program do more than read archival theory and study metadata standards. As their final project for DIG 550 (Digital Preservation),...
View ArticleBottoms up! Maine’s first THATCamp 7-10 October
Using a 3-D printer. Custom-styling a WordPress blog. Growing your own medicine. Conducting a social media campaign with YouTube and Twitter. Is there a skill you wanted to learn but haven’t found the...
View ArticleHow to turn a conference upside-down in four steps
One of the challenges of Maine’s first THATCamp (the 2013 Digital Humanities Week) was how to get 60 people to decide what they want to learn together. Fortunately, several of the participants offered...
View Article$10 piracy settlements signal that file-sharing is the new normal
By now university administrators and IT departments are accustomed to passing on letters from the music industry accusing students of sharing music illegally over the Internet. What’s surprising about...
View ArticleRe-collection, the first academic book on new media preservation, hits the...
Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, the new book by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito published this week by MIT Press, has already received acclaim from some high-profile reviewers. Five...
View ArticleSpecial online discussion celebrates publication of Re-collection
The July discussion on the Yasmin email list focuses on MIT Press’s publication last month of Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito, which has been...
View ArticleStill Water’s John Bell accepts Dartmouth digital humanities position
Starting this September, Still Water Senior Researcher John Bell will be starting a full-time position with the Dartmouth Research Commons at Dartmouth College. Bell will be spearheading the...
View ArticleRegister by September to get the in-state rate for online Digital Curation...
After observing the impressive response to its fledgling Digital Curation program, which has already been called “a national standard for the study of digital curation,” the University of Maine has...
View ArticleWill your obsolete software live on in the cloud?
If you’re over 30, chances are you’ve stumbled on a CD-ROM, game cartridge, or floppy disk in a box that you’d like to access but can’t, because you’ve long gotten rid of the hardware that went with...
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