Session Details

Thursday, 30 December

657. It’s 2010—Do You Know Where Your Data Is? Open Standards for Technology in the Academy

8:30–9:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Committee on Information Technology

Presiding: Julia H. Flanders, Brown Univ.

1. “The Open Source Movement and Higher Education: Consequences for the Humanities,” Saul Fisher, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

2. “Open Source Software: Quality Learning, Improved Productivity, or a Distraction?” James Farmer, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “‘What I Assume You Shall Assume’: The Whitman Archive and the Challenge of Integrating Different Open Standards,” Kenneth M. Price, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln; Brett Barney, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln

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