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        Date: 2023-06-25 21:57:56+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.122: a methodology for abundance?

Hi Willard,
and everyone who knows the work of Roy Rosenzweig:
i saw that he published also a book

    Rosenzweig, Roy. /Clio wired: the future of the past in the digital
    age/. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

on what appear to be same broad theme of the article “Scarcity or
Abundance: Preserving the Past in a Digital Era”
the book is of 2011, the article of 2003.
any comments about the book?
with my thanks
Maurizio


Il 23/06/23 07:44, Humanist ha scritto:
>                Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 122.
>          Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
>                        Hosted by DH-Cologne
>                         www.dhhumanist.org
>                  Submit to:humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
>          Date: 2023-06-23 05:39:28+00:00
>          From: Willard McCarty<willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
>          Subject: the problem of abundance
>
> Much missed historian Roy Rosenzweig, reflecting on the digital present
> in 2003,* referred to "the problem of abundance", by which any clever
> scholar can quickly become overwhelmed--and went on to warn of the
> opposite if we pay insufficient attention to preserving the deluge of
> the digital. What I want to raise here is the question he quickly turns to,
> namely the methodological change required by the need to sort
> through "this overwhelming record in creative, but systematic,
> ways" (p. 23) so that one can arrive at a reference point from which to
> make (provisional) sense of the abundance. Consider the difficulty that
> an interdisciplinary scholar faces in finding a way to an argument
> across disciplines that does not immediately elicit the derision of the
> specialists.
>
> Your thoughts on this?
>
> Yours,
> WM
> ---
> *“Scarcity or Abundance: Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” rpt. in
> Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age (Columbia
> University Press), from American Historical Review 108.3 (June 2003).
>
> --
> Willard McCarty,
> Professor emeritus, King's College London;
> Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
> www.mccarty.org.uk



the knowledge gap between rich and poor is widening
Witten & Bainbridge, how to build a digital library

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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli


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