Fairfax, Va. — Turning historical and social-science data into pictures could help scholars identify new patterns in old records, according to researchers who gathered at George Mason University this weekend for a conference on technology in the humanities.
At a session devoted to visualization — as making pictures out of data is [...]
Archive for June, 2008
3 Visualization Projects Point to the Future of Scholarship in the Humanities
Posted in New Information Ecologies, tagged Visualization Humanities on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Encyclopedia Britannica Goes – Gasp! – Wiki
Posted in New Information Ecologies, tagged Encyclopedia Britannica wikis on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to contribute their own articles, which will be [...]
