Shawn Martin

Shawn Martin is an informationist and historian, and is currently an IDEASc Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington. See more at http://www.shawnmartin.net

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Sep 22, 2016

Open Access Alchemy

One of my first posts when I launched this blog asked the question, why don’t alchemists share? Another scholar I mentioned…

History and Public Communication of Scholarship

Lately it seems that many articles have been coming through my news-feed about the failure of scholars to communicate their research to the public. Some of these articles have even taken a historical viewpoint in order to propose solutions. Still…

Managing Big Data — Again

I was reading the recent Distillations magazine from the Chemical Heritage Foundation and saw an article on Information Overload. It reminded me of the post I wrote a while ago on big data in the 19th century, along with multiple posts about the American Chemical Society and…