“Perhaps we’d find out what the historian of the 21st century should look like, rather than how to protect the career path of the 20th-century historian for decades to come.”
Gregory Crane: “Automated Methods, Human Understanding, and Digital Libraries of Babel”
The challenges and opportunities of a hyperlingual dialogue among civilizations, where humans work with machines and with each other to communicate and where books do talk to each other.
Podcast, Robert Darnton and Susan Flannery: “Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects”
How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future?
Preserving Our Digital Heritage
William Uricchio: “UNESCO, long concerned with world heritage sites such as the Taj Mahal, extended its remit to include something far more ephemeral.”
