Copyright (c) 2008 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar Recent documents in Shawn Martin en-us Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:49 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/6 http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/6 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:49:51 PDT In an age of mass digitization with book scanning projects like Google and Microsoft and their open access rival, the Open Archives Initiative, it is easy to forget that this is not the first time such efforts to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" have been attempted. In 1926, A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave compiled A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 which at that time was the most comprehensive bibliography of English printed material in the early modern period. That project later developed into Early English Books (EEB), a microfilm project started by University Microfilms International (UMI), and an electronic database Early English Books Online (EEBO) produced by ProQuest Information and Learning. Shawn Martin http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/5 http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/5 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:50:36 PDT Shawn Martin http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/4 http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/4 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:53:33 PDT Shawn Martin http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/3 http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/3 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:50:00 PDT Electronic technology has changed the way scholars in the humanities do their work, creating two distinct groups of scholars: first, those who perform leading-edge humanities computing research (a relatively small number); and second, scholars who perform traditional humanities research with new electronic tools (a fairly large number). How is it possible to bring these two groups together? The Text Creation Partnership at the University of Michigan provides one way of providing services to both. And as the electronic publishing community looks for ways to provide reliable cyberinfrastructure in the humanities, the Text Creation Partnership provides a model for building large digital collections that meet the needs of future scholars. Shawn Martin http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/2 http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/2 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:49:54 PDT The potentials for teaching and learning using technology are tremendous. Now, more than ever before, computers have the ability to spread scholarship around the globe, teach students with new methodologies, and engage with primary resources in ways previously unimaginable. The interest among humanities computing scholars has also grown. In fact at ACH/ALLC last year, Claire Warwick and Ray Siemens et al. gave some excellent papers on the humanities scholar and humanities computing in the 21st century. Additionally, in the most recent version of College and Research Libraries (September 2004), a survey was conducted specifically among historians to determine what electronic resources they use. The interest in this is obviously growing, and the University of Michigan as both a producer of large digital projects as well as a user of such resources is an interesting testing ground for this kind of survey data. Theoretically, Michigan should be a potential model for high usage and innovative research and teaching. In many cases it is; nevertheless, when one looks at the use of electronic resources in the humanities across campus and their use in both the classroom and innovative research, it is not what it could be. The same is true at other universities. At many universities across the U.S. and Canada, including those with similar large scale digitization efforts, use remains relatively low and new potentials of electronic resources remain untapped. Why? Shawn Martin http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/1 http://works.bepress.com/shawnmar/1 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:49:50 PDT The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project at the University of Michigan, a project that maximizes the respective strengths of scholars, libraries, and commercial publishers, has created a new model for academic scholarly publication and collaboration in the humanities. Such new electronic resources come with the tremendous possibility of changing the study of history, yet with such collaborative endeavors come many questions about use and collaboration. These endeavors also bring up new questions about the use of such resources by historians and how scholars of history should be proactive in the creation of digital scholarship. Shawn Martin