Digits and Dreams: Scholarship and computing in the age of abundance

Amy Friedlander

Director of Programs Council on Library and Information Resources All are welcome. 4pm - 5:30pm Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Abstract

This talk describes recent changes in technology and scholarship, considering broad patterns in both sciences and humanities but focusing on the future challenges and opportunities for the humanities. The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) supports a broad agenda that addresses relationships among information, scholarship, technology, and higher education. Workshops in the past two years have convened scholars from many perspectives to consider the implications of a nexus of related issues arising from advanced in technology, their implications for research, and ways that research might be organized and supported. This paper will discuss some of the findings, and how those lessons might inform future work.

About Amy

Amy Friedlander is Director of Programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources where she is primarily engaged in projects involving cyberinfrastructure, preservation, and digital scholarship, encouraging partnerships and cross-fertilization of ideas across disciplines, agencies, and institutional boundaries. She is the author of five short monographs on the history of large scale, technology based infrastructures in the U.S. and holds the A.B. from Vassar College, the M.A., and Ph.D. in U.S. history from Emory University, and the M.S.L.I.S. from The Catholic University of America.