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The Lake District Online Project and the Digital Humanities Part 2
Date: 2014-11-20
Name(s): Linley, Margaret, Swanick, Eric L.
Description: The Lake District Online project, based on a collection of rare books held in SFU Special Collections, aims to create the first full-text electronic archive of Lake District travel writing dating from the early 18th c. Professor Linley will talk about the process of mobilizing new digital humanities methods and tools to study book history and to ask what it means to explore the book ecologically. A key question to be addressed is: what is at stake when the Victorian memorializing view of…
Vincent Larivière on journal collection development in the digital era
Date: 2017-04-10
Name(s): Larivière, Vincent
Description: Drawing on historical and contemporary empirical data, this talk addresses the past and current transformations of scholarly communication, with an emphasis on the role of journals in this new ecosystem, and present the results of the first large-scale analysis of journal usage in Canada. Vincent Larivière holds the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication at the Université de Montréal, where he is associate professor of information science. He is also scientific…