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Open Access Articles! or, what happens to old articles

June 19, 2018 Steven Lubar Comments 0 Comment

How best to make journal articles accessible? Over the years, I’ve published a few dozen essays, in a range of journals, books, encyclopedias, newsletters, and blogs. A recent discussion with folks from the Brown University Library about the Brown Digital Repository got me thinking about how accessible they were, and how to make them more accessible. And so I spent some time trying to figure out what was on the web, what was open to the public, and what to…

Beautiful Data

July 4, 2014 Steven Lubar Comments 3 comments

I spent the last two weeks of June at Beautiful Data, a workshop funded by the Getty Foundation and run by Harvard’s MetaLab. I’m not sure why the name, “Beautiful Data”: but it seems fair, given that the workshop address both data about beautiful things and data made beautiful by its utility. The question for the workshop was what we might do with the newly available data about the collections in art museums. The workshop was pretty intense. Twenty two…

“An olla podrida of queer things pining away its sweetness in the desert air of the Brooklyn Navy Yard”

February 15, 2014 Steven Lubar Comments 0 Comment

By popular demand, the full text of the article about the Brooklyn Naval Lyceum that appeared in the New York Times in 1852. It’s a very odd article. More about it, and the Naval Lyceum, in my article, brand new in Museum History Journal.

Scholarly Research and Writing in the Digital Age

July 22, 2012 Steven Lubar Comments 3 comments

It’s been a long time since I’ve done serious scholarly, research-intensive historical research and writing. I’ve spent the last twenty years or so teaching, advising and administering, and writing for a general audience. But I recently had the opportunity to write an article, using some of the new technologies of scholarship. This is a report on what’s changed, and what’s remained the same. Some background: I had done a lot of research for an exhibition and a talk at the…

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