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POST: Using data from historic newspapers

Sep

7

2017

Library of Congress’ blog The Signal features a post drawn from a talk by David Brunton (Library of Congress) on the need to simplify APIs. Brunton explains why complicated APIs are challenging for users, and offers his observations from his work on LoC’s Chronicling America project: But over time it has been my unscientific observation ...

RESOURCE: Feminist Research Practices and Digital Archives

Sep

7

2017

In her recent article in Australian Feminist Studies, “Feminist Research Practices and Digital Archives,” Michelle Moravec (Rosemont College) examines the ethical considerations of putting archival materials online. After reviewing issues that arose in conjunction with the British Library’s digitisation of the feminist magazine Spare Rib in 2013, I offer three questions researchers should consider before consulting materials in ...

RESOURCE: Syllabus: Women and gender non-conforming people writing about tech

Sep

7

2017

Sarah Myers West (University of Southern California) and Jillian C. York (Electronic Frontier Foundation) have created and invited contributions to a syllabus of “Women and gender non-conforming people writing about tech.” Their work was inspired by Siva Vaidhyanathan’s (University of Virginia) twitter thread and Gabriella Coleman’s (McGill University) letter in response to a recent Los Angeles Review of Books digital ...

CFP: Our (Digital) Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing and Social Justice

Sep

7

2017

Lehigh University has released a call for session proposals for “Our (Digital) Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing and Social Justice,” scheduled for April 20–22, 2018, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. From the call: Sessions may be proposed under one of the conference’s six tracks. A track is a series of sessions connected by a shared theme; in this ...

CFP: Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries

Sep

7

2017

Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries is hosting a conference from March 7–9, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland. The organizers are particularly interested in submissions that address the following areas: History While the number of researchers describing themselves as digital historians is increasing, computational approaches to history have rarely captured the attention of those without innate ...

JOB: Digital Pedagogy Librarian, University of Michigan

Sep

7

2017

From the announcement: The University of Michigan Library is one of the world’s largest academic research libraries and serves a vibrant University community that is home to 19 schools and colleges, 100 top ten graduate programs, and annual research expenditures approaching $1.5 billion a year. To enable the University’s world-changing work and to serve the public good, ...

POST: A History Dissertation Goes Digital

Aug

31

2017

AHA Today has posted an interview with Celeste Sharpe (Carleton College), discussing “what is purportedly the first born-digital dissertation in the discipline of history.” In the post, Kritika Agarwal speaks with Dr. Sharpe about her dissertation, They Need You! Disability, Visual Culture, and the Poster Child, 1945–1980, built in Scalar. Dissatisfied with “the rigidity of ...

RESOURCE: The JavaScripting English Major

Aug

31

2017

Moacir P. de Sá Pereira (New York University) has released The JavaScripting English Major, a fifteen-session course aimed at helping humanities students to code projects in JavaScript. The course, built in support of de Sá Pereira’s Digital Literary Studies: Novel Maps of New York class, presents a series of lessons covering both the conceptual and ...

RESOURCE: Public Libraries as Publishers: Critical Opportunity

Aug

31

2017

The Idealis has featured an article by Kathryn M. Conrad (University of Arizona Press) in the Journal of Electronic Publishing, “Public Libraries as Publishers: Critical Opportunity.” The paper examines how public libraries can engage their communities by offering publishing services. From the abstract: Libraries have a long and distinguished history of publishing, since their earliest ...

CFP: PMLA Varieties of Digital Humanities

Aug

31

2017

Publications of the Modern Language Association has a released a call for submissions for its upcoming special topic issue, “Varieties of Digital Humanities,” coordinated by Alison Booth (University of Virginia) and Miriam Posner (University of California, Los Angeles). From the call: Digital humanities (DH) may not be a full-fledged discipline, but it has advanced beyond ...

CFParticipation: Archives Hashtag Party

Aug

31

2017

The National Archives has announced an ongoing Archives Hashtag Party through December, and they have released an open call for Libraries, Archives, Galleries, and Museums to participate: You’re invited to the Archives Hashtag Party! Come hang out on social media and share highlights from your collections around a different theme each month. We want to ...