dh+lib

In a post on his blog, “Embracing ephemerality in the digital humanities,” Andy Schocket (Bowling Green State University) writes about the long-term sustainability of digital humanities projects and how the ephemeral nature of some of this scholarship can impact DH work. One thing that not many digital humanists write about directly, but has become increasingly ...

In a blog post at Modeling Literary History, entitled “Using Networks to Re-think Periodization,” Michael Gavin (University of South Carolina) considers the challenge of communicating more than the mere scope of a dataset with large-scale network visualizations, in this case using EEBO-TCP (Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership) data. After identifying and highlighting dense ...

In a recent blog post on “The Facilitated Collection,” Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC) builds on OCLC’s previous work on networked collections with a consideration of the emergence of “the facilitated collection.” Defined as “a coordinated mix of local, external and collaborative services assembled around user needs,” this type of collection is necessarily organized around network logic rather that print logic. Dempsey points to ...