23 Jan 2008
A mashup is a computer program that draws information from a number of different online databases, integrates it on-the-fly, and presents it to the user in the form of a dynamic webpage. The idea behind collective intelligence is to harness the problem-solving capabilities of a networked and communicating group of collaborators. Both phenomena are quintessentially “Web 2.0″. How can / will they change the practice or products of historical research?
Readings for Discussion
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Do APIs Have a Place in the Digital Humanities?” dancohen.org (21 Nov 2005).
Cohen, Daniel J. “When Machines Are the Audience,” dancohen.org (2 Mar 2006).
Cohen, Daniel J. “Where Are the Noncommercial APIs?” dancohen.org (10 Mar 2006).
Howe, Jeff. “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” Wired 14, no. 6 (Jun 2006).
Jenkins, Henry. “Collective Intelligence vs. The Wisdom of Crowds,” Confessions of an Aca-Fan (27 Nov 2006).
Koman, Richard. “Remixing Culture: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig,” O’Reilly Network (24 Feb 2005).
Marks, Paul. “‘Mashup’ Websites Are a Hacker’s Dream Come True,” New Scientist 2551 (12 May 2006).
Miller, Paul. “Web 2.0: Building the New Library,” Ariadne Magazine 45 (Oct 2005).
Mills, Elinor. “Mapping a Revolution with ‘Mashups’,” CNET News (17 Nov 2005.)
Nardi, Bonnie A. and Vicki L. O’Day. “Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart,” First Monday 4, no. 5 (1999).
Turkel, William J. “Collective Intelligence and ARGs,” Digital History Hacks (11 Dec 2006).
Turkel, William J. “Pedagogy for Collective Intelligence,” Digital History Hacks (13 Dec 2006).
Technical Background Readings
Merrill, Duane. “Mashups: The New Breed of Web App,” IBM developerWorks (16 Oct 2006).
O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0,” oreillynet.com (30 Sep 2005).
Programmable Web. “How to Make Your Own Web Mashup.”
Ramsay, Stephen. “Databases,” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Further Reading
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Meet. NYU, 2006.
Lévy, Pierre. Collective Intelligence: Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace. Basic Books, 1997.
Segaran, Toby. Programming Collective Intelligence. O’Reilly, 2007.
Sunstein, Cass R. Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. Oxford, 2006.
