At one point in Paola Antonelli’s HASTAC 2013 keynote, she gave a dispirited frown and held out her thumb and forefinger, pinky extended, clutching an imaginary teacup.  She was considering the recent explosion of 3D printing and the sometimes unfortunate products of easy fabrication. Just because we can make something, she said (to paraphrase), doesn’t…

We are pleased to announce the addition to our board of Marguerite Avery. She is a senior acquisitions editor at The MIT Press, where she acquires scholarly, trade, and reference work in Science and Technology Studies, Information Science, Communications, and Internet Studies.  She is also Digital Publications Chair of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), a member…

A brief word to say that I’ll be traveling to Toronto tomorrow (April 25) for the HASTAC 2013 conference. If you’re there, come say hi. And if you have a project you’d like to talk about, feel free to let me know (through Twitter, DM, email, etc.) and we can set up some time over…

We’re happy to report more progress this week as we look to future web preservation and consider approaches to editorial review and lightweight production. On this last front, Anvil is pleased to announce a new partnership with Trinity College IT and the Trinfo.Café program. Along with Suzanne Aber, director of IT at Trinity, Carlos Espinosa,…

We are excited to announce that Anvil will be able to offer authors and affiliated projects robust web preservation through Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service. What Archive-It provides Archive-It is a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations to harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content. Anvil will be using the…