http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/ Hope Greenberg, Academic Computing, University of Vermont. 2008-08-08T08:36:10-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/08/vermont_is_a_st.html When the NY Times publishes an article on the 1930s Works Progress Administration's American Guide on Vermont, it is only natural that they would interview Dona Brown, associate professor of History here at UVM. The article, "Going Down the Road:... hag 2008-08-08T08:36:10-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/08/digital_promise.html Digital Promise continues to move along. It has now passed the US House and Senate. According to the website it : ". . .seeks to establish the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT), to be funded by revenues from a... hag 2008-08-04T10:27:48-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/07/opendoar_dspace.html Two related yet unrelated items today: dSpace and Fedora have officially announced they will be partnering. This comes as good news for those of us who have long wanted to use Fedora for its open and expandable model, but have... hag 2008-07-29T15:19:48-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/07/mcluhan_mailer.html Mailer, McLuhan, 1968, a CBS talking show program titled "The Summer Way" and Google Video. Web serendipity strikes again, or always, or...hmm...I'm sure McLuhan would find another way to express it. But one fav quote from the show: McLuhan (around... hag 2008-07-28T15:37:11-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/07/univ_presses_ma.html According to an article in a recent "Inside Higher Education" several University Presses are releasing new or existing books on the Kindle. "By the beginning of the fall, Princeton plans to have several hundred books available for sale through Kindle.... hag 2008-07-08T12:29:30-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/07/mbooks_their_li.html University of Michigan has created an interesting digital library application: building on its partnership with Google Books, it offers users the opportunity to create custom collections of works that have been digitized. Once you create an account you can create... hag 2008-07-02T11:04:19-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/06/safari_to_kindl.html Safari books users rejoice: Well-known NY Times tech pundit David Pogue mentions that: "O'Reilly is about to offer a bunch of its bestsellers for sale on the Amazon Kindle. . . Early next month, the company will also start selling... hag 2008-06-23T09:17:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/05/bb_europe_some.html While the B in Blackboard might just as well stand for Behemoth, right now it's the only game in town for us. Meanwhile, BbWorld Europe continues apace and the bloggers are buzzing. Niall Sclater of Open University has a longish... hag 2008-05-22T22:02:44-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/05/american_civil.html Alexander Street Press is offering free access, until June 30, to its digital collection of American Civil War materials. This contains four collections: Letters and Diaries Illustrated Newspapers and Magazines Photographs War Research Database This is a gold mine! For... hag 2008-05-16T17:58:41-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/05/powerset_smarte.html Powerset has been working on a search engine that incorporates natural language and semantic web technologies. They've just released their first product which is used to search Wikipedia. According to their blog: "Instead of being limited to keywords, Powerset allows... hag 2008-05-12T13:20:44-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/04/ncsu_library_lo.html Next week the Learning Commons at the North Carolina State University Library will begin lending Kindle ebook readers. Students will tell reference librarians which books they would like to have downloaded onto the devices, which they will check out for... hag 2008-04-24T10:48:29-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/04/harvard_tail_wa.html Students at Harvard have decided not to wait for an 'official' open repository for undergraduate theses. A group of students calling themselves the Harvard College Free Culture have set up a repository for undergraduate honors and senior theses. The site... hag 2008-04-15T13:00:28-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/04/loc_flickr_pilo.html Library of Congress is experimenting with Flickr Collections. There are currently 2 collections: 1910s in the News and 1930-40s in Color. Over 3,000 photos to date. Check it out at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/... hag 2008-04-14T15:44:54-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/04/large_digital_l.html The Internet Archive has been building a library since 1996. Many know it as the home of the "wayback machine" a tool that lets you search for older versions of web pages, including those that may no longer exist. For... hag 2008-04-10T14:59:10-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2008/04/google_books_di.html Google had promised to release its Viewability API to give access to Google Books. The buzz around digital humanists was that this wold be a wonderful tool allowing access to the content of the books. Think of the fun! Instead,... hag 2008-04-02T18:59:46-05:00