Wilde on the iPhone
I’m familiarizing myself with the new terrain of the UC Berkeley School of Information (iSchool), and I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Erik Wilde, a member of the iSchool faculty with...
View ArticleGIS, GPS, Geo-Location
Reading the recent posts by Fennelle Miller and Kevin Schwarz got me to look into the spatial data a bit more closely. One of the issues that seems to crop up again and again is cost and complexity....
View ArticleCall for Papers
My colleague Erik Wilde is organizing a workshop on Location and the Web. I’m helping to organize and have already hit some of the email lists with a call for papers. The types of questions explored by...
View ArticleOpen-source and Haiti
And now for something a bit different: “… volunteers are gathering in cities around the world to help bolster relief groups and government first responders in a new way: by building free open-source...
View ArticleGoogle Books may advance scholarly research
… that is, according to the [San Jose, CA] Mercury News: But how did the hundreds of lesser-known Victorian writers regard the world around them? This question and many others in fields like...
View ArticleCultural Heritage Informatics Field School at Michigan State University...
DDIG member Ethan Watrall (Asst. Professor of Anthropology @ MSU) sends us the following information about his upcoming Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) field school, which is part of the CHI...
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