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CFP: Slate’s Call for Historical Datasets

Jun

30

2016

Rebecca Onion (Slate) is “in search of historical data.” Inspired by the success of Slate‘s interactive graphic based on the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, Onion seeks datasets that can be used to create “history presented using the interactive power of the web.” If you, in your work as a historian or humanities scholar, have put ...

CFP: The Digital Teaching Edition

Jun

30

2016

Dr. Mary Balkun (Seton Hall University) and Dr. Diana Polley (Southern New Hampshire University) have issued a call for a proposed roundtable session at NeMLA 2017 on The Digital Teaching Edition: From the call: This roundtable will generate discussion about the future of the traditional teaching edition; the benefits, drawbacks, and challenges of creating a digital ...

RESOURCE: Inclusive DH2016

Jun

30

2016

In “Inclusive DH2016: Papers and posters that address gender, race, sexuality, class, and cross cultural language issues,” Amy Earhart (Texas A&M) provides a list of papers, workshops, and sessions at the upcoming Digital Humanities 2016 Conference (Kraków, 11-16 July) that specifically mention issues of diversity and inclusion. The list includes a two-part session on diversity: ...

RESOURCE: The Sourcecaster

Jun

30

2016

Thomas Padilla (University of California, Santa Barbara) and James Baker (University of Sussex) recently launched the sourcecaster, a tool that “helps you use the command line to work through common challenges that come up when working with digital primary sources.” Padilla has written a brief post to explain the project, which is based on ffmprovisr, ...

RECOMMENDED: Must Digital Divide?

Jun

23

2016

In her latest Library Babel Fish column for Inside Higher Ed, Barbara Fister (Gustavus Adolphus College) reflects on the recent Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference. Her observations about digital pedagogy and the ways in which libraries and archives are, might, and ought to be involved in digital scholarship will be of use to librarians and archivists ...

POST: Digital Humanities Dissertation Defense Talk

Jun

23

2016

Amanda Visconti (Purdue University Libraries) has posted her dissertation defense talk, “‘How can you love a work, if you don’t know it?’ Critical code and design toward participatory digital editions,” delivered in April 2015. Visconti’s dissertation project, Infinite Ulysses, explores the ways in which digital editions can support social reading, annotation, and other affordances of reading and ...

POST: A Novice’s Intro to XSLT

Jun

23

2016

In a post at the ACRL TechConnect Blog, Eric Phetteplace (California College of Arts) provides a tutorial on eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). In the tutorial, Phetteplace gives his description of what XSLT is and how it can be used, and offers a step-by-step method for a MODS-to-Dublin-Core metadata transformation, including links to his complete ...

RESOURCE: Teaching Literature Through Technology: Sherlock Holmes and Digital Humanities

Jun

23

2016

Issue nine of the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy features an article by Joanna Swafford (SUNY New Paltz) entitled “Teaching Literature Through Technology: Sherlock Holmes and Digital Humanities,” which documents an introductory digital humanities course’s use of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories as “a corpus on which to practice basic digital humanities methodologies ...

CFP: DHQ Special Issue: Creative Pedagogical Approaches in Information Design

Jun

23

2016

From the call: Digital Humanities Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue on creative pedagogical approaches in the instruction of information visualization. Contributions are invited on methodologies, tools, and resources that practitioners have used to teach any facet of information visualization, which may include (but is not limited to) best practices in design, the use ...

CFP: Calling for Proposals to Host Day of DH in 2017 and 2018

Jun

23

2016

From the call: Day of DH has been generously hosted for the past 2 years by LINHD: Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales de la UNED, and was previously hosted by MATRIX at Michigan State University. See the latest Day of DH site for further information: http://dayofdh2015.uned.es/. centerNet is now accepting proposals for the next ...

OPPORTUNITY: Coordinator of The American Archivist Reviews Portal

Jun

23

2016

From the call: From the latest digital preservation tools to new digital exhibits, the tools and technologies at the disposal of archives profession are constantly changing and emerging. Are you interested in new technologies and digital projects and want to explore their impact and utility for archives and archivists? Do you have more than a passing ...