Data Unbound » Sorin Matei on Project Bamboo and the role of mashups
The immediate prompt for this post is Sorin Matei’s The Bamboo Digital Humanities Initiative: A Modest Proposal. Matei’s post has been of sufficient interest to me that I using it to prompt some discussion in a community of humanists and technologists. Matei makes a lot of useful points, but the segment that caught my attention is:
Amen. That’s an approach I’ve been pursuing for a while now (in the Scholar’s Box, for example)– and one I think that Zotero, as a desktop client, with some capacity for extensibility, can embody rather deeply.Matei goes on: I stop here, rather abruptly, waiting for reactions. I am planning, however, to release a sketch of such a platform, including essential services and affordances. It will also try to leverage the idea of the mashup editor as basic architecture strategy, which could be use to support the infrastructure of the system.
Data Unbound » Sorin Matei on Project Bamboo and the role of mashups
The idea of a scholar’s desktop with someplace like the Internet Archive serving the whole deal is the medieval scriptorum writ very large.
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