Eminent Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts Launches New Website
NEW YORK, November 4, 2011 — Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts (JLA), the leading scholarly journal publishing topics related to law and the arts, has launched a new website at www.lawandarts.org. JLA partnered with the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia University for site development, design, and hosting services. Run [...]
Read MoreDistinguished Journal of Socially Engaged Religious Thought Goes Digital
NEW YORK, November 1, 2011 — Founded in 1939, Union Seminary Quarterly Review (USQR), Union Theological Seminary’s journal committed to interfaith, interdenominational, and interdisciplinary dialogue, has launched its open-access website at http://usqr.utsnyc.edu. With the advent of the new site, USQR will release its latest issue, devoted to religion and science. The Center for Digital Research [...]
Read MoreExploring the Uses of the Semantic Web for Scholarship
NEW YORK, October 21, 2011 – In the future, will researchers depend on the Semantic Web? On Wednesday, November 2, at 12:00 PM in Columbia University’s Faculty House Presidential Rooms 2 & 3, the event “Harnessing the Semantic Web for Scholarship” will answer that question by offering an introduction to the Semantic Web and exploring [...]
Read MoreJunior Web Developer Takes on CDRS, New York
CDRS’ new junior web developer Kate Park may have just graduated from Smith College with a computer science degree, but her experience with web development goes way back. Her exploration started with Xanga, an online diary-like blog site, with which she wielded CSS. “I began to notice that you could customize websites to make them [...]
Read MorePublishing Guru Takes on New Role at CDRS
CDRS’ new project coordinator Julie Morris knows more than a thing or two about publishing–a fortuitous attribute for the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. Prior to CDRS, Julie worked at D&M Publishers and Bookriff, a start-up publishing company that allows readers to mix content, in Vancouver, Canada. She started her career at D&M as [...]
Read MoreVideo Team Excels with Conservation Lab Videos
The CDRS Video Team put together three compelling videos for the Columbia University Conservation Lab. The first video, “A Student’s Experience in Conservation,” features an interview with Columbia College alumna Jeana Poindexter, who was a Conservation Lab student assistant. In the next video, “A Curator Talks About Conservation,” Consuelo Dutschke, curator of Medieval and Renaissance [...]
Read MoreEvent Explores Data Policies For Federally Sponsored Research
NEW YORK, September 13, 2011 — In light of requirements instituted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) earlier this year, managing data has become a hot-button issue for federally funded researchers. On Tuesday, September 27, at 12:00 PM in Columbia University’s Faculty House Presidential Rooms 2 & 3, the event “Data Management and Federal Funding: [...]
Read MoreOn (Open) Access vs. (Open) Accessibility
“Open access” may seem like a relatively basic concept: information is free to whomever wishes to consume it. But it isn’t that simple. In an intriguing blog post on Scholarly Kitchen, Kent Anderson explores the differences between access and accessibility by way of an essay written by Maria Popova of the Nieman Journalism Lab. When [...]
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