In New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives, Alex de Waal offers a new political history of epidemics, identifying and critiquing a repeated mobilisation of the ‘war metaphor’ of pandemic disease to show our…
Connecting local knowledge to International Law – How social science changed the course of a landmark trial
Researchers can play important roles bridging and connecting different communities and their knowledge. In this post, Duncan Green talks to Holly Porter about how her anthropological research has helped to inform cross-cultural understandings of sexual…
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The Stanford ORCID Initiative
June 10, 2021
by Tom Cramer
Digital library
News
Open source
The Stanford ORCID Initiative’s goal is to maximize the presence and value of ORCID…
Diving into Branch Rickey: Using a dataset of crowdsourced transcriptions as a tool for open research
Today’s blog post is from Abby Shelton and Lauren Seroka, two Digital Collections Specialists in the Digital Content Management Section here at the Library of Congress. Abby and Lauren discuss their work with the University of Michigan School of Information’s Ann Arbor Data Dive earlier this year. On March 27, 1956, Branch Rickey wrote of baseball […]
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The epistemological chaos of platform capitalism and the future of the social sciences
Networked digital platforms have destabilised and reconfigured long-established forms of knowledge production and communication, changing the ways in which we consume media and engage with the public sphere and expert knowledge. In this extract from th…
The White Supremacy of Library Learning Analytics
I’ve removed this post because it is problematic. I want to thank my colleagues of color for pointing this out to me and educating me. It is a privilege to not see white supremacy in learning analytics research. I jumped … Continue reading