[Asis-l] "Cyberinfrastructure & the Liberal Arts" - Academic Commons special issue released today

[David Green]

Monday Dec 17, 2005

Academic Commons today released its December 2007 special issue  
devoted to CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE & THE LIBERAL ARTS  
(www.academiccommons.org/).
Edited by David L. Green (Principal at Knowledge Culture), the issue  
is dedicated to the memory of Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), an  
extraordinary historian who inspired a generation of fellow  
historians and others working at the intersection of the humanities  
and new technologies (http://thanksroy.org/).

Cyberinfrastructure offers the liberal arts new resources and new  
ways of working - with revolutionary computing capabilities, massive  
data resources and distributed human expertise. How will students,  
scholars, teachers, librarians, museum professionals and others  
connect, use and contribute to these new capabilities? Will humanists  
work collaboratively and produce new forms of scholarship "more  
interesting than the book"? How will institutions change the way they  
do business in putting cyberinfrastructure to work?

This collection of essays, interviews and reviews captures the  
perspectives of scholars, scientists, information technologists and  
administrators on the challenges and opportunities  
cyberinfrastructure presents for the liberal arts and liberal arts  
colleges. What difference will cyberinfrastructure make and how  
should we prepare?

Table of Contents: http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/ 
announcement/table-of-contents

*Introduction*
     - David L. Green, "A Cyberinfrastructure for Us All."

*Humanities Cyberinfrastructure*
     - Gary Wells, "The (Uncommon) Challenge of the Cultural  
Commonwealth" (Review)
     - Kevin Guthrie, "Beyond the ACLS Report: An Interview with John  
Unsworth."  (Interview)

*Beyond the Two Cultures*
     - Michael Lesk, "From Data to Wisdom: Humanities Research and  
Online Content." (Essay)
     - Sayeed Choudhury and Timothy Stinson, "The Virtual Observatory  
and the Roman de la Rose:
          Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative  
Imperative." (Essay)

*Cyberscholarship*
     - Gregory Crane, "'Building the Infrastructure for  
Cyberscholarship'." (Review)
     - Janet Murray, "Cyberinfrastructure as Cognitive Scaffolding:  
The Role of Genre Creation
          in Knowledge Making." (Essay)
     - Amelia Carr, Guy Hedreen, and Dana Leibsohn,  
"Cyberinfrastructure and the Future of
         Art History."  (Roundtable Discussion)

*Institutional Change: Colleges and Museums*
     - David Green, "Leveraging Institutional Change: An Interview with
          James J. O'Donnell." (Interview)
     - David Green, "Museums, Cataloging & Content Infrastructure:
          An Interview with Kenneth Hamma." (Interview)
     - John Weber, "College Museums in a Networked Era--Two  
Propositions." (Essay)

*Institutional Change: Colleges and Museums*
     - Francis Starr, "Deploying Cyberinfrastructure for the Sciences at
          Liberal Arts Colleges." (Essay)
     - Todd Kelley, "Managed Cyber Services as a Cyberinfrastructure
         Strategy for Smaller Institutions of Higher Education." (Essay)
     - Matthew Coté, "The Sciences, Cyberinfrastructure and the  
Liberal Arts:
         The Case of the Bates College Imaging Center." (Essay)

*Profiles*
Descriptions of some key organizations and networks whose missions  
include leveraging cyberinfrastructure.
     - Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (AHDO)
     - American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
     - ARTstor
     - Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
     - Cyberinfrastructure Partnership (CIP) & Cyberinfrastructure  
Technology Watch
     - Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced  
Collaboratory (HASTAC)
     - CenterNet
     - Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
     - Ithaka
     - The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
     - National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
     - NITLE
     - Open Content Alliance
     - Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research  
(SEASR)


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