- I'm a digital archivist at the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress and a doctoral student at GMU. I'm interested in online communities, digital history, and video games. I blog on this site, and at playthepast.org. Views expressed are not those of any current or former employer.
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My Recent LoC.gov posts
- Glitching Files for Understanding: Avoiding Screen Essentialism in Three Easy Steps November 5, 2012
- The is of the Digital Object and the is of the Artifact October 25, 2012
- Archivematica and the Open Source Mindset for Digital Preservation Systems October 16, 2012
- Media Archaeology and Digital Stewardship: An interview with Lori Emerson October 11, 2012
- Developing a Health and Medicine Blogs Collection at the U.S. National Library of Medicine October 2, 2012
- Yes, The Library of Congress Has Video Games: An Interview with David Gibson September 26, 2012
- Exhibiting Video Games: An interview with Smithsonian’s Georgina Goodlander September 25, 2012
- Born Digital Minimum Processing and Access September 24, 2012
- Sharing, Theft, and Creativity: deviantART’s Share Wars and How an Online Arts Community Thinks About Their Work September 17, 2012
- The AIMS Project and the Stewardship of Born-Digital Archival Materials: An interview with Bradley Daigle September 10, 2012
My Recent Play the Past Posts
- The New Science: Playing the Scientific Revolution September 27, 2012
- “No no no, that’s not the way it happened. Shall I start again?” July 24, 2012
- Playing at Slavery: Modding Colonization for Authenticity May 24, 2012
- Jamestown Adventure: Less is More May 15, 2012
- Guns, Germs, and Horses: Cultural Exchange in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 13, 2012
- if (!isNative()){return false;}: De-People-ing Native Peoples in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 1, 2012
- Playing with World Religion: What Religion Means in Civ IV February 16, 2012
- Pastwatch Reflections: Cause, Counterfactual, and Fracturing the Past February 8, 2012
- Causal Models as Historical Toys: Playing Pastwatch 3 January 18, 2012
- The Madness of Mission 6: Making up Histories for Pixels October 13, 2011
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Tag Archives: monuments
Tripadvisor Rates Einstein: Traces of Public Memory and Science on the Web
Arguing with Einstein is one of my favorite photos of the Albert Einstein memorial. It encapsulates how some of the sculptor’s intentions, his argument about Einstein and science, manifest themselves in an invitation to argue with a statue. The seated statue … Continue reading
35 Views Of Einstein From 2100 C St. NW
I’m working on a piece about the the Albert Einstein Memorial outside the National Academy of sciences. One of the facets I am exploring is the way in which the monument suggests photos to visitors. Many reviews of the monument … Continue reading