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The Internet will not ruin college – Andrew Leonard (Feb 8, 2013)

“I am not arguing that we shouldn’t be looking long and hard at exactly how online courses are “disrupting” education, with special attention devoted to who plans to profit from new delivery models and how taxpayers will inevitably get screwed. What I’m … Continue reading

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Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken – Clay Shirky (Feb 7, 2013)

Current debates on the subject of massive open online courses (MOOC) “For all our good will, college in the U.S. has gotten worse for nearly everyone who relies on us. For some students—millions of them—the institutions in which they enroll are … Continue reading

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“The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” Lecture: Neal Stimler

On Wednesday, November 28, “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” was hosted at the Graduate Center, CUNY by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative and cosponsored by the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Center for the … Continue reading

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“The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” Lecture: Will Noel

On Wednesday, November 28, “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” was hosted at the Graduate Center, CUNY by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative and cosponsored by the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Center for the … Continue reading

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In the news: Two Major Museums Push the Boundaries of Multimedia

A recent article about Getty Voices and the Metropolitan Museum’s new multimedia site 82nd and Fifth published by New York based art and art history blog http://hyperallergic.com/ Kyle Chaya writes: “Museums are continuously pushing the envelope of how we experience the objects … Continue reading

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How long would it have taken to travel from Rome to Alexandria in January circa AD 200?

ORBIS The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, “allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and … Continue reading

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Lightning talk, Tuesday 3:45-4:15PM – Art history and Big Data: Visualizing Massive Image Collections, Lev Manovich

lab.softwarestudies.com/p/research_14.html The projects done at Software Studies Initiative are explorations in the growing field of digital humanities. The lab is developing theory and methods for the analysis of massive sets of images and video (cultural analytics).

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Lightning talk, Tuesday 1:45-2:15PM, Challenges in Building a Collaborative Digital Environment for Research and Publication (The Getty Scholars’ Workspace), Murtha Baca, Susan Edwards and Francesca Albrezzi

The Digital Mellini a collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Department of Art History of the University of Málaga, Spain, takes an unpublished 17th-century manuscript—Pietro Mellini’s 1681 rhyming inventory of paintings and drawings from his family’s collection in Rome—as … Continue reading

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Lightning talk, Tuesday 11:45-12:15PM – Mapping Gothic France, Stephen Murray

mappinggothic.org/

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Lightning talk, Tuesday 9-9:30AM, Digital Visualizations as Art Historical Research: The Question of Scale, The Spatial History Project: Holocaust Geographies, Paul B. Jaskot

www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/project.php?id=1015

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