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CFP: Call for DH Commons Advisory Board

May

7

2013

centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers, has issued a request for nominations for Advisory Board members for its new publication, DHCommons: The Advisory Board will join Co-Lead-Editor Ryan Cordell, a Co-Lead-Editor from outside North America to be named soon, and Technical Editor Quinn Dombrowski. The Board will be drawn from centerNet’s regions and help ensure the global vision ...

RECOMMENDED: DH Genealogies and the Academy (Weekend Round-Up)

May

7

2013

“I just got done with a good twenty-four hours of arguing with people online about digital humanities.” So begins Stephen Ramsay’s post, “DH Types One and Two,” written in response to a flurry of conversations that took place online over the weekend. In part a reaction to Daniel Allington’s “Managerial Humanities: or, Why the Digital ...

RESOURCE: Keeping Up With…Digital Humanities

Apr

16

2013

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has launched a new online publication called Keeping Up With…, appearing monthly and designed to introduce timely topics to academic librarians. The inaugural issue features Digital Humanities, and is filled with links to resources, tools, and opportunities for self-learning. Written by Jennifer L. Adams and Kevin B. Gunn (both ...

RESOURCE: Group and Method: Collaboration in the Digital Humanities

Apr

16

2013

Last week dh+lib featured a post from Caro Pinto that explored collaboration in the digital humanities in the context of librarian-faculty relationships. Now, Lisa Spiro has made available a PDF of the slides from a recent talk given at Case Western Reserve University’s Freedman Center Colloquium on “Exploring Collaboration in Digital Scholarship.” As she explains ...

POST: Digital Humanities and Digital Preservation

Apr

16

2013

Leslie Johnston (Library of Congress) has written a post reflecting on digital preservation of digital humanities projects that serves as a nice overview of some of the issues involved, and calls for greater consideration of sustainability issues. While one would like to focus on pure scholarship — discovering new sources, intuiting new interpretations, writing and ...

CFP: Archive Journal: “Publishing the Archive”

Apr

16

2013

Archive Journal, an open access and peer-reviewed online journal, has issued a call for projects and essay proposals for its fourth issue under the theme, “Publishing the Archive.” This issue is guest edited by Anvil Academic, “a scholarly publisher of born-digital and born-again-digital research in the humanities.” We invite proposals that investigate the possibilities and ...

RECOMMENDED: The Digital Humanities Contribution to Topic Modeling

Apr

16

2013

Elijah Meeks and Scott Weingart are guest editors for the latest edition of Journal of Digital Humanities, which is devoted entirely to topic modeling (Vol. 2, No. 1 Winter 2012). Topic modeling is a method of textual analysis that has gained popularity in the humanities in the last few years. It uses computer algorithms to ...

RESOURCE: Announcing a Free “Personal Digital Archiving” Publication

Mar

26

2013

The Library of Congress has released a free PDF compilation of key blog posts from its digital preservation blog, The Signal. Intended as “a primer for the digital archive novice, as well as a refresher for those with more experience,” the publication addresses the challenges that individuals face in preserving their personal digital content. The ...

PROJECT: Telling Data: Artifacts and the Digital Humanities

Mar

26

2013

At last week’s DH: The Next Generation symposium at Simmons College, a group from Harvard’s metaLAB presented on Data Artifacts. The research initiative: seeks to understand the collections data of libraries and other institutions as cultural objects—as artifacts, things assembled by human hands and minds, with stories to tell and values to express. In particular, ...

POST: JLA Lights the Way

Mar

26

2013

On Saturday, the news broke that the entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration (JLA) had resigned in protest of the journal’s restrictive author agreement. In a post on ACRLog, Scott Walter (Editor of College and Research Libraries) puts this move in context with the open access movement and asks, “Why do so ...

PROJECT: Announcing the Praxis Network

Mar

26

2013

Last week the University of Virginia’s Scholar’s Lab announced the launch of the Praxis Network, featuring graduate programs at the University of Virginia, Michigan State University, CUNY Graduate Center, University College London, and Duke University, and undergraduate programs at Hope College and Brock University. The network is: a new partnership of innovative graduate and undergraduate ...