Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians. London In a vault beneath the British Library here, Jeremy Leighton John grapples with a formidable challenge in digital life. Dr. John, the library's first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today's discoveries and better understand the people who made them. His task is only getting harder. Scientists who collaborate via email, Google, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook are leaving fewer paper trails, while the information technologies that do document their accomplishments can be incomprehensible to other researchers and historians trying to read them.
"It would be tragic if there were no record of lives that were so influential," Dr. Usually, historians are hard-pressed to find any original source material about those who have shaped our civilization. Digication e-Portfolios: Home. ETDs from the Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech's Electronic Theses and Dissertations VT ETDs are migrating into VTech Works! 21,363 will move from the ETD Database to join the >1,380 most current ETDs already in VTechWorks. Virginia Tech has been a worldwide leader in ETD initiatives for more than 20 years. On January 1, 1997 VT was the first university to require ETDs.
Our mission is to preserve and provide access to the research and scholarship of Virginia Tech's graduate students. ETDs give students the opportunity to prepare, submit, review, and publish electronic works such as book chapters, journal articles, and conference presentations. VT's ETD policies, procedures, and software are openly available from this web site. What is OSP all about? | Open Source Portfolio. Teaching Generation Z » Blog Archive » E-Portfolio Research Wiki Finalised. Boy, this has been a bit drawn out – mainly through my own procrastination and inferior time management skills. My report for the 2006 ICT Learning Grants is up on the wiki where I originally started my efforts. By real research standards, you wouldn’t even call what I’ve cobbled together as “research” but it does represent thinking changed and challenged over a period of time examining an idea that many people in education immediately think is good without any further clarification.
The report had to be submitted in a proprietary Word document format but I’ve extracted all of the interesting stuff and pasted it (not without formatting issues) into the wiki so anyone interested or referenced can take a look. I relied a lot of my conversations with other edubloggers to sort through my ideas so if you commented on any of my posts tagged in my E-Portfolios category, then you may well be referenced. A snippet to attract your interest: