The recent launch of Parker Library on the Web to the public via a new platform signals big news for medieval studies at the start of 2018. This 10th-anniversary upgrade to 2.0 brings with it compatibility with the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and a Creative-Commons Non-Commercial License, so images and other data are available to use and download for … Continue reading Opening Access in Medieval Studies
Last week I had my first fully immersive experience with virtual reality. I saw the future, and it is good. My experience came about because of the generosity of someone I recently met, Adam Blumenthal, the Virtual Reality Artist-in-Residence at Brown University. Because of my work on our common reading program at RIC, I had invited Adam … Continue reading Getting Medieval in Virtual Reality
Like many other medievalists, this past weekend I attended the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. While there, I was privileged to present on a special session titled "Source Study: A Retrospective," sponsored by the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture (my thanks to Ben Weber for organizing and for including me). I was … Continue reading Source Study in a Digital Age
I have a feeling I'm already behind the trend (with the high pace of digital culture, that's often the case), but for the past week or so I've been mulling over the newly emerged social app called What Would I Say. In short, the online application accesses a user's past activity on Facebook and generates … Continue reading What Would I Say: Social Media Poetics
Brandon W. Hawk 