Tag: web 2.0

NY Times: For Bentham and Others, Scholars Enlist Public to Transcribe Papers

The New York Times has an on-going “Humanities 2.0” series in which they examine how new digital tools and technologies are changing the nature of scholarship in history, literature, and the arts. The latest article in the series discusses how researchers at the University College London (UCL) are utilizing new Web 2.0 tools to process Jeremey Bentham’s collection of unpublished…

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NY Times: U.S. National Archives Asks Whether Politicians Tweets and Blogs Are Official Government Records

U.S. National Archives Asks Whether Politicians Tweets and Blogs Are Official Government Records – NYTimes.com. The New York Times today asks if social media information objects from politicians are considered federal records. David Ferreiro, Archivist of the United States, says they are and that federal agencies should should follow regular records management practices in regards to social media objects. Though,…

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