April ← 2014 ← dh+lib

POST: The Archive as Data Platform

Apr

29

2014

In a post prompted by the release of the Carter Cables by WikiLeaks, Ed Summers asks the question: What if instead of trying to build the ultimate user experience for archival content, archives focused first and foremost on providing simple access to the underlying data first? Responding to the “URL inspection” that is necessary to ...

CFParticipation: Unhidden Collections (CLIR)

Apr

29

2014

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has announced the end of its “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” program as it shifts instead towards considering the issue of digitization: The input of our constituents will be invaluable in informing our next steps. We are keenly interested in hearing your thoughts about the place of ...

POST: Affinity of Ideas: Using an Affinity Wall to Map Out My Digital Dissertation

Apr

29

2014

Amanda Visconti (University of Maryland), who recently posted about her digital dissertation, “Infinite Ulysses,” has written a post introducing the organizational technique of affinity mapping. She explains: It’s a way to take a bunch of separate ideas and visually map out how they’re related (thus, “affinity”); this helps your areas of focus (or paper section headings) ...

RECOMMENDED: In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities

Apr

29

2014

The latest issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies is organized around the theme, In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities (subscription required). The issue draws on ideas first presented at an MLA 2013 session titled, “The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities,” and later expanded into a 2-day conference sponsored by the Center for 21st ...

POST: Neotopology

Apr

29

2014

Elijah Meeks (Stanford University Libraries) has posted notes from his talk at the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium’s First Annual Conference, Networks in the Humanities (#txdhc). Among several topics, Meeks addresses the notion of scholarly “interlopers” with respect to the digital humanities: I think interloping, more than computational approaches or the digital broadly construed as the object of ...

PROJECT: ieldran, the Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Mapping Project

Apr

21

2014

Katy Myers (Michigan State University) announced that ieldran, the Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Mapping Project built as part of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative (a partnership between Michigan State’s Department of Anthropology and Matrix), is live. The Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Mapping Project provides locations, summaries, and information about citation and collections for numerous cemeteries from the mid-5th to early 7th century ...

RECOMMENDED: How Did They Make That? The Video!

Apr

21

2014

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has shared a video based on a talk she gave at The Graduate Center, CUNY recently following up on her original “How Did They Make That?” post. Posner introduces a three step process for interrogating the work that goes into a digital project in a way that is useful both to students and ...

CFParticipation: Teaching and Learning About Digital Stewardship

Apr

21

2014

Abby Potter (Library of Congress) announced on The Signal that “The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is forming an Education and Training group as part of the NDSA Outreach Working Group. The initial aim of this sub group will be to provide a venue for NDSA member collaboration around education and training issues. The group will also work ...

JOB: Data Curation Librarian, Indiana State University

Apr

21

2014

From the announcement: “This 12-month, tenure-track position provides technical leadership for the creation, management, preservation of and access to digital assets and scholarship. The incumbent will manage, develop and migrate digital application systems and serve as webmaster for digital initiatives’ websites. The successful candidate maintains and develops Sycamore Scholars, the institutional repository for Indiana State ...

POST: Mellon Funding for the Open Library of the Humanities

Apr

21

2014

Adeline Koh (Stockton College) announced on ProfHacker that the Open Library of the Humanities, under the direction of Martin Paul Eve (University of Lincoln) and Caroline Edwards (University of London), has received “a substantial Mellon Foundation grant to build its technological platform, business model, journal and monograph pilot scheme.” In an interview with Koh on ProfHacker this week, Eve explains the origins ...

RESOURCE: Reddit AMA on Digital Preservation

Apr

15

2014

Trevor Muñoz (University of Maryland) and Janel Kinlaw (National Public Radio) hosted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) forum on Reddit on the topic of digital preservation. Questions from the audience included: What is a good formula for recognizing what to actually archive and what to delete? Do you keep material you can’t access in the ...