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RECOMMENDED: Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction

Jul

2

2015

Miriam Posner (University of California, Los Angeles) has shared the text of her talk, “Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction,” given at the Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium. Posner suggests that libraries have an “underexplored opportunity” to help humanities scholars manage their research data, but notes the peculiarity of humanities data as compared to science or ...

POST: Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (series)

Jul

2

2015

Each year, Scott Weingart (Indiana University) analyzes the publicly available data surrounding the accepted submissions to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization’s Digital Humanities conference. This year, he’s drafted a series of posts that individually tackle different aspects of the data and we’ve reproduced the tl;dr for each here: Part 1: Part 1 is about ...

POST: Digital Manuscripts as Critical Edition

Jul

2

2015

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies has posted a lightly edited version of “Digital Manuscripts as Critical Edition,” a talk given by Christoph Flüeler (University of Fribourg) at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. In his examination of the relationship between originals and digital reproductions, Flüeler calls for a “critical theory of the digital ...

RESOURCE: Modelling the (Inter)national Printmaking Networks of Early Modern Europe

Jul

2

2015

Matthew Lincoln (University of Maryland) has shared slides and speaking notes from his DH2015 talk, “Modelling the (Inter)national Printmaking Networks of Early Modern Europe,” in which he draws on museum datasets to construct network graphs for early modern printmakers. Lincoln considers the effect of relying on a single institution’s data and explores future directions for ...

CFP: Critical Data Studies

Jul

2

2015

The journal Big Data & Society has issued a call for proposals for a special themed issue on “Critical Data Studies,” to be guest edited by Andrew Iliadis (Purdue University) and Federica Russo (Universiteit van Amsterdam). Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique theoretical, ethical, and epistemological challenges ...

JOB: Digital Projects Manager, Montana Historical Society

Jul

2

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Manager (DPM) is responsible for the management of the Research Center’s digital assets and projects and acts as a resource for all MHS programs on digital asset and digital project management. The DPM ensures both the Research Center and the wider agency are managing digital assets and projects in ...

The art of DH: Reflections on an ARLIS/NA 2015 workshop

Jul

1

2015

How are the Digital Humanities finding their way into art libraries? In this post, Sarah Long (Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) reviews a DH workshop preceding the ARLIS/NA annual conference. The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), a professional organization of librarians in the arts, holds a week-long conference of sessions, workshops, tours, and meetings. The ...

dh+lib/DHIG/ADHO Libraries and Digital Humanities SIG Meetup at DH2015

Jun

29

2015

Attending Digital Humanities 2015 in Sydney and interested in how libraries, archives, and museums contribute to global digital humanities? Join dh+lib, ACRL’s DH Interest Group, and the

POST: Text Capture and Optical Character Recognition 101

Jun

25

2015

Simon Tanner (King’s College London) offers an introduction to Text Capture and OCR in a recent blog post. Tanner outlines the various ways in which digital humanities textual datasets are created from physical artifacts, and the strengths and weaknesses of OCR, rekeying, handwriting recognition, and speech recognition as methods for creating them. This post is ...

RESOURCE: Modern Language Association CORE (Commons Open Repository Exchange)

Jun

25

2015

The Modern Language Association, along with Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), have announced the beta release of CORE, “a digital repository for MLA members to share and archive all forms of scholarly communication, from conference papers to syllabi, published articles to data sets.” CORE offers MLA members a persistent, ...

RESOURCE: Using Google Sheets with ESTC

Jun

25

2015

In a post from Owen Stephens (Open University), readers are provided with a step-by-step guide to using Google Sheets and the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) to generate direct links, Wing/Short Title Catalog (STC) numbers, and other information for titles in ESTC. Stephens manages the JISC-funded TELSTAR project at the Open University. Stephens builds on a post by Benjamin Armintor (Columbia ...