Posted on July 16, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So back in April, gg at Skulls in the Stars challenged science bloggers across the disciplines to read and research some classic article in their discipline, and then write a blog post about it. The results are in, and they’re awesome. Not just fascinating - this is a potential time suck (with none of the [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 by Anne-Marie
well, not really bad metadata. More like the wrong metadata.
Dipity lets you build interactive timelines. You can pull in all kinds of information sources — video, text, images — and display them in a nice, linear timeline. The interface is easy to navigate. Each item in the timeline can be viewed [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2008 by Anne-Marie
There’s an interesting conversation going on at Historiann’s blog about peer review. It’s especially interesting to librarians I think as a peek behind the curtain of academic publishing - at least a glimpse of what it’s like in certain disciplines.
I have always wondered how closely my experiences writing in the peer-reviewed library science literature match [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I don’t know that I have anything really insightful to say about this example of scholarship on the read/write web, but when I clicked over to HNN’s Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention this morning I didn’t have high expectations.
(For non-historians, OAH = Organization of American Historians. This is one of the two main [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Anne-Marie
For reasons I won’t go into, I recently spent way too much time on the internet looking for magazine scans. (Anyone going to Online NW might soon be able to piece together why). Looking for those I ran across some other things I thought were awesome, even if I’m not always clear on [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I saw this on the American Historical Association blog today - the AHA is maintaining an archives wiki - a clearinghouse of information for researchers with everything they need to know before heading off to a new archive. I went there expecting to see the usual just-launched wiki with more promise than content and [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2008 by Anne-Marie
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