Comments on: Becoming a “Digital Scholar”: Digital Discovery 2008

By: Lisa Spiro

Lisa Spiro — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:14:50 +0000

Thanks, Stuart! It’s exciting to hear about folks in different disciplines embracing some of the same approaches.

By: Stuart Shaw

Stuart Shaw — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:58:08 +0000

Great piece! Im putting together a site (launched in a month or so) for psychologists to find and work together – all ages, nationalities, expertise – utilising many of the open digital scholarship tools mentioned, as well as some of our own. For me I think one of the key opportunities of going digital (for scholars) is to use their experiences as a teaching tool for those just getting started. We have students here who would love to ’see’ a piece of research being done by one of their academic heroes from start to finish. In this sense, they see what is being done, what gets thrown out and what kept in, learning the going digital experience by seeing it as it happens. Which is why I found this post so great, and hope what we are putting together helps both those doing the research today and those who will be getting their hands dirty tommorrow. Stuart

By: Doing Digital Scholarship: Presentation at Digital Humanities 2008 « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:34:08 +0000

[...] decided to investigate these questions by remixing my 2002 dissertation as a work of digital scholarship. Now I’ll acknowledge that my study is not exactly scientific—there is a rather subjective [...]

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DigiNative Wanne(May)be(Not) « MEDIA PRAXIS — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:19:35 +0000

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By: How many texts have been digitized? « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

How many texts have been digitized? « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:47:27 +0000

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By: Pia

Pia — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:00:27 +0000

On the copyright issue – I don’t know about scanning, but if someone has taken a photograph of a source, the photograph is copyrighted even if the source is public domain. A useful parallel here is, I believe, the different editions of a text – the text itself might be public domain, but a particular edition be copyrighted.

By: lms4w

lms4w — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:19:29 +0000

Re. Copyright: Yes indeed, public domain materials are free & clear for remixing–I should have been clearer about that. But I’m also interested in including some 20th C materials in my remixes, and I confess to being somewhat confused about how copyright law governs public domain materials digitized by others. For instance, if I wanted to include 19th C cartoons from Harper’s online archive, could I just use the page images downloaded from their site (assuming the quality was sufficient), or would I have to re-scan the pages myself?

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Who’s blogging? And a rant… « (Digital) Humanities — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:05:49 +0000

[...] But I can’t help feeling absurdly pleased that Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center at Rice University’s Fondren Library mentions Canada’s TAPoR tools in her engaging posting about becoming a digital scholar in the humanities. [...]

By: Gavin Baker

Gavin Baker — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:18:01 +0000

Not to let copyright be too much of a bogeyman: If you want to remix materials from the 19th century, no worries that, as that material is firmly in the copyright-free zone of the public domain.