An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has published a commentary in Nature Reviews Biodiversity highlighting how digitization in a contextualized form can be ...

Two courses in the History department this semester are taking advantage of modern technology to better understand the past. Gabriel Pizzorno—a preceptor in the History Department who teaches “History ...

The digitization of natural history collections has transformed centuries-old cabinets of specimens into dynamic digital archives that underpin modern biodiversity science. By converting physical ...

The idea of creating a "universal library" that contains the entirety of all the human knowledge and heritage has inspired the imaginations of the brightest minds of scholars and humanists since ...

What makes history special in the Web 2.0 era? Have historians' practices changed as the web has become increasingly participatory? Two texts provide a clearer picture of the components of this new ...