A friend who is very involved in the leadership of the American Folklore Society just shared with me a link to James Lappin’s very effective blog post “The Impact of the Web 2.0 World on the Records Management Society.” While presented as a case study of information science/archives organizations in the UK, its arguments generalize [...]
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The Impact of the Web 2.0 World on Scholarly Societies
August 15th, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: Case studies · conferences · Facebook · Links · Ning · Scholarly Societies · tools · Twitter · Web 2.0 · Weblogs · YouTube
EduPunk Repositories
August 6th, 2009 6 Comments
EduPunk, as I understand it, refers to scholars who, frustrated by the inferior tools offered by their universities, have embraced free online (i.e. “web 2.0″) social tools as a substitute. Much of the focus of EduPunk has been on teaching; for instance, using Google Groups instead of Blackboard. But I think Anthropologists should also think [...]
Tags: Mana'o project · Self-Archiving · tools
Open Monograph Press
March 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Via digital humanities guru Dan Cohen, I learned about an exciting new Open Access initiative. I’ve long known about the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems (OJS), which is used to power many peer-reviewed Open Access journals, but it seems that one of the people involved in that project, John Willinsky, is taking it to [...]