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POST: What Crisis in the Humanities? Interactive Historical Data on College Majors

Nov

6

2013

Mark Sample has written a post challenging the recent New York Times article tracing the decline in humanities majors at American universities using data collected by Ben Schmidt of Northeastern University in this interactive graph. While Schmidt’s data is in the aggregate, one can break down the data more granularly to better understand trends in ...

RESOURCE: Encouraging Digital Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities: White Paper

Nov

5

2013

The University Press of North Georgia has released the final white paper from its NEH-funded project, “Encouraging Digital Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities” [pdf]. In addition to going over the design of the project and the conclusions to be drawn, the paper attends to areas of common interest for “libraries, presses, faculty, and administrators,” and includes ...

RESOURCE: Methods and Models for Building Capacity in Digital Cultural Heritage

Nov

5

2013

Ethan Watrall (Associate Director of Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Michigan State University) recently gave a talk at the HumLab at Umeå University in Sweden, in which he discusses MSU’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative. In “Methods and Models for Building Capacity in Digital Cultural Heritage,” Watrall differentiates the term “cultural heritage informatics” from “digital ...

POST: Authors Guild v. HathiTrust: Oral Argument on Appeal

Nov

5

2013

Kenneth Crews (Director, Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University) has shared his notes from the October 30th appellate hearing of the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case. As Crews notes in an earlier post on the original ruling, the case has important implications for fair use in libraries: [T]he judge ruled on motions for summary judgment, finding ...

POST: Topic Modeling Archival Materials

Nov

5

2013

Thomas Padilla (Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has written a brief post on using Topic Modeling Tool to aid with archival arrangement and description. Padilla reviews a test application of the popular text analysis technique to the Carl Woese Papers, finding that: The University Archives’ application of topic modeling to the electronic ...

JOB: Open Rank Faculty Position in Digital Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nov

5

2013

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have listed an Open Rank Faculty Position in Digital Humanities. From the announcement: GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our iSchool. We are particularly interested in candidates specializing in the digital humanities, but strong ...

Open Access Week (#oaweek) in DH

Oct

30

2013

What does Open Access Week have to do with the digital humanities? For those unfamiliar with the event, it is an annual, global celebration of open access (OA) that began in 2007 and is billed as: [A]n opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, ...

PROJECT: NYPL Labs Building Inspector

Oct

29

2013

The New York Public Library Labs team launched Building Inspector last week, an app that extracts, corrects, and analyzes data from fire insurance maps from the 1850s and 1860s. The Building Inspector presents a computer-generated outline of a building and asks the user to decide whether the outline matches the actual building. This user input ...

RESOURCE: Library Publishing Directory

Oct

29

2013

The Library Publishing Coalition has released the Library Publishing Directory (PDF and EPUB), which “provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions ...

POST: A Report from DPLAfest

Oct

29

2013

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) formally launched last week during DPLAfest. Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) wrote a recap of the event, which included announcements of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for public libraries training; the addition of three more service hubs in New York, Texas, and North Carolina; and the ...

JOB: Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship, Swarthmore College

Oct

29

2013

From the position announcement: Initial goals for the Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship include conducting an environmental scan of academic departments, identifying potential scholarly projects, determining suitable tools and methodologies for use in each, and establishing priorities based on the content’s cultural, academic or historical value. Will manage the lifecycle of these identified projects, ...