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The Hammer Principle: Smashable (and Sustainable) DH
Nov. 3, 2016—At THATCamp this past weekend, I had the opportunity to gesticulate with a hammer and talk about smashing stuff. Specifically, I talked about the smashability of the internet, a much underdiscussed property of the most prominent infrastructure of our times. The point is that if the internet is smashable – and it is – then...
A Decade in Digital: Collaborations with the ESSSS Digital Archive
Oct. 27, 2016—Hello Everyone, I’m Angela Sutton, one of the postdoctoral fellows at the Digital Humanities Center here at Vanderbilt. I also have the privilege of working with the brand-new office of the digital archive of Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS), right around the corner in Buttrick 341. The archive holds over 600,000 unique...