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I recently read the MAY 2012 Kress report about digital art history, and it really made me THINK about the future of the field.
Tracking Samothrace DiSC project
Views of Rome DiSC project
The report, Transitioning to a Digital World Art History, Its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship by Diane M. Zorich, included this wonderfully provocative statement…. Contributing to the marginalization of digital art history “is an absence of dialogue among the community’s leadership – its professional organizations, funders, thought leaders, and research centers – about what art history will be in the 21st century, and the role digital art history plays in that scenario.”
The Next Generation of the Digital Classics Collaboration: Perseus Project’s New Plan by Jong Hwan Lee (PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Woodruff Fellow, Emory Libraries)
On March 20, Perseus Digital Library, which assembles digital collections of Greek and Roman resourses, announced plans to promote online collaboration.
Perseus announces plans to decentralize the curation, annotation, and general editing of the TEI XML texts that it hosts. Ultimately this will include every textual object in Perseus, allowing individuals to modify (where rights allow), and to create new, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, translations, commentaries, introductions, as well as machine actionable annotations such as identifications of people and places and the morpho-syntactic analyses in the Greek and Latin Treebanks.
It is hard to tell from the prototype youtube clips what the actual and final outlook of this change would be like. But I think there are lots of potential for this new plan.
by Melanie T. Kowalski, Library Research Fellow, The Intellectual Property Rights Office
UPDATE: Since the original drafting of this post, several organizations and publishers have released statements against the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699):
The United States has taken step forward in the Open Access Movement. On October 5th, 2011, the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) announced its partnership with Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa) in developing an Institutional Repository Service for federal agencies.
Open Access is a method of sharing scholarship that is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. You can participate in Open Access initiatives at Emory to preserve your work, and to make it more visible and accessible around the world.
Open Access is all about openly and freely sharing scholarly content. Understanding the rights you have as an author under copyright law is the first step in participating in Open Access, since these right give you the ability to ensure that your content is openly accessible. You own the copyright to your work from the moment you put your finger tips to a keyboard or pen to paper. This includes articles, manuscripts, poems and even blog posts. Copyright owners have the exclusive right to reproduce their work, distribute their work, and publicly perform or display their work.
October 24 to 30 is the fourth annual international Open Access Week. So what exactly is ‘Open Access?’
“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” –Peter Suber, A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
