Re: Thinking

By Rachel Frick Last week I was honored to be one of the 53 poster presenters at the 9th Annual International Data Curation Conference (IDCC) held in San Francisco. It

By Steven Heslip Participatory design affords us an opportunity to understand our users’ perspectives through their eyes and their words. We ask questions about their

By Justin Schell The recent OCLC report, “Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center?”, unfortunately represents digital humanities scholars and librarians as encompassing completely

By Charles Henry Part 2 of a 3-part series My January 9 blog highlighted the contemporary paradox of new computers that will reach the market later this

By Hannah Rasmussen Just over seven months ago I made a leap from consulting in the for-profit sector to working as a research fellow in

By Rachel Frick This is the time of year when many of us reflect on what we accomplished in 2013, as we plan, strategize, and

By Charles Henry Part 1 of a 3-part series A recent front-page article in the New York Times grabbed my attention. Titled “Brainlike Computers, Learning from Experience,”

By Charles Henry Reading CLIR’s Annual Report for 2013 , I was struck by the wide reach of our programs, and the number of grants, fellowships, and

By Katherine Akers Among the obstacles to a more robust culture of research data sharing and preservation, one that stands out to me is the

By David Pierce Public interest in silent films has never been higher, it seems, than today. Beautiful restored copies are released on DVD and BluRay,

By Rachel Frick This week I had the opportunity to participate in the second meeting of Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADPII). For background on this

By Spencer Keralis For the past two years, starting as a CLIR Fellow in 2011, and continuing in my current role as director for digital