25 March 2011 · I’m going to keep this fairly brief, because I’ve been trying to write this post for two weeks: Starting shortly after THATCamp, I’ll be leaving the Center for History and New Media to be the Humanities Design Architect at Scholars’ Lab. The mix of emotions I’ve had making this decision was almost overwhelming. I’ve been at CHNM [...] Continue reading…
ClioWeb is the online atelier of Jeremy Boggs, Humanities Design Architect at the University of Virginia Library, and a PhD candidate in History at George Mason.
Cognition of Comments
12 October 2010 · The folks at Happy Cog recently rolled out a new (and quite stunning) company blog called Cognition. Founder and Executive Creative Director Jeffrey Zeldman published the first post explaining not only the rationale for the company blog in general, but their experiment with commenting on the blog, done either through a commenter’s Twitter account or [...] Continue reading…
Scholar-in-Residence
17 August 2010 · I’m afraid someone may come along and pinch me, to wake me up from this awesome dream. As Bethany Nowviskie has already announced, I’m going be a visiting scholar for Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia for the Fall semester. To say that I’m honored would be an understatement. The work that comes out [...] Continue reading…
Participating in the Bazaar: Sharing Code in the Digital Humanities
10 June 2010 · Can sharing more code help the digital humanities be a better place? I think so! Here’s how and why. Continue reading…
Hacking our Conferences
28 May 2010 · Coming off another successful THATCamp, I keep thinking there is so much more we can do with the unconference model in academia. The ideas generated from THATCamp, the collegiality and openess lends itself to an intellectual playfulness and exchange that is almost wholly lacking in traditional academic conferences. It’s time we start hacking our conferences. [...] Continue reading…
But I Want You to Think!
8 June 2009 · Early last semester, we had a conversation in my Clio Wired 2 course about building websites to meet user needs, and the strategies to take to ensure our websites were usable. Most of our reading focused on strategies for building commercial websites, but unlike building websites for business, digital humanities projects have to walk a [...] Continue reading…
Assigning Wikipedia in a US History Survey
5 April 2009 · As some of you might guess, I get mixed reactions whenever I reveal that I use Wikipedia in my history classes. And not just for reading; I actually assign my students to research and write an article for Wikipedia. And it has consistently been one of my most successful assignments. It shows students the difference between fact-only writing and analytical writing, it provides an introduction to research methods, and it gives them more insight into the working of Wikipedia, so they understand why they should or shouldn’t use it for various circumstances. Continue reading…
Academic Technology Goals for Higher Education
12 March 2009 · Jeff McClurken’s recent post, “Writing a Strategic Plan for Academic Technologies and Libraries,” asks a really great question: If given the task of writing a strategic plan for a small institution, what would your top academic technology goals be? After teaching several undergraduate courses, and while currently teaching a graduate course, I’ve thought about my own goals at a classroom-level, and I think these goals could be applied to a broader strategic plan for a university. Continue reading…
Frontiers in Digital History Conference
24 February 2009 · The American Association for History and Computing has extended the deadline for its 2009 Annual Conference to March 2. The conference theme is “Frontiers in Digital History,” and its taking place at George Mason University April 3-5. Here’s the updated Call for Papers. Continue reading…
THATCamp 2009
10 February 2009 · THATCamp, the immensely fun and popular digital humanities unconference hosted by CHNM is back in 2009. Its a true working weekend, where people show things their working on, get feedback, toss around ideas, and connect with others equally excited about the possibilities of digital humanities. If that sounds like your kind of event, keep reading. Continue reading…