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Library Observatory goes live!

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Matthew Battles

In conjunction with the launch of the DPLA, metaLAB at Harvard is pleased to share Library Observatory, a web-native graphical search tool for discovering the DPLA’s growing collection of millions of digital books, images, maps, and archival treasures. It’s available … Continue reading →

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Telling Data: Artifacts and the Digital Humanities

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Matthew Battles

Beginning last week, Boston hosted four days of digital-humanities doing, thinking, and making: on Friday and Saturday at Simmons College, Digital Humanities: the Next Generation brought scholars, librarians and archivists, and technologists together for presentations and hands-on learning; on Monday … Continue reading →

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metaLAB’s 2012 community of fellows

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Matthew Battles

Last Friday, metaLAB’s inaugural fellows community convened for the first time! Here they are in the backyard of metaLAB’s offices at 42 Kirkland—with an unseen wild turkey roaming in the background—from left to right: Georgina Lewis, Sara Hendren, Gretchen Henderson, … Continue reading →

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Data Artifacts

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Yanni Loukissas

The term “artifact” has at least two meanings: From a technical perspective, an artifact is an unintentional pattern in data, arising from processes of collection and management. From a cultural perspective, an artifact is a designed object, with a social … Continue reading →

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Summer moves

Posted on June 21, 2012 by jschnapp

The summer is upon us and metaLAB is looking forward to a number of important initiatives that will be launched during its course. Several new collaborators will be joining the core team both for the long term and the short. … Continue reading →

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Point Cloud: networked weather, rematerialized

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Matthew Battles

Have a look at the enigmatic Point Cloud, described by its creator James Leng as “an attempt to reimagine our daily interaction with weather data.” Leng, who was a student in the metaLAB-affiliated GSD course Mixed-Reality City this past Spring, … Continue reading →

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Interactive documentary and the wild, wired world

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Matthew Battles

Bear 71 isn’t your grandfather’s grizzly. She knows the name of the drug that tranquilized her, knows too about Zoloft and Viagra, knows that her radio collar broadcasts in the VHF range. She can tell you that a rubber bullet … Continue reading →

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Tweet withheld: (mis)understanding censorship on the Internet

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Matthew Battles

Since Twitter announced its Country Withheld Content policy last Thursday, fear and outrage have spread at tweetspeed across the blogosphere and the connected media, with Reporters Without Borders director Olivier Basille firing off an open letter to Twitter’s chairman Jack … Continue reading →

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Exciting Spring courses by metaLAB friends

Posted on January 24, 2012 by jshapins

There are lots of very exciting courses be offerred around campus by friends with many overlapping concerns. In particular, these two studios in VES should be great: VES 45: “The New Photographers” by visiting artist Sue Johnson The Web and … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities and the merry-go-round of metacommentary

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Matthew Battles

At his own blog, game designer, critic, and Georgia Tech digital media professor Ian Bogost comments on the free-wheeling blog carnival that is the digital humanities (putting himself in the grip of an irony, as he entertainingly indicates). Having returned … Continue reading →

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