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JOB: Digital Archivist, DePaul University

Sep

30

2013

From the announcement: “The Digital Archivist will report to the Head of Special Collections and Archives. The Digital Archivist will work collaboratively across the library and the University to expand the library’s capacity to responsibly acquire born-digital archival content, manage existing digital holdings, and ensure the effective acquisition, appraisal, description, preservation, future migration, access to ...

POST: Genre, Gender, and Point of View

Sep

24

2013

In a new post, Ted Underwood discusses a paper he co-authored for the IEEE “big humanities” workshop that is now available on arXiv as a preprint. He also reviews some questions that arose after the paper was presented regarding the use of first-person narration and gender. According to Underwood, “The paper argues that the blurry mutability of genres is ...

POST: How to Get MODS Using the NYPL Digital Collections API

Sep

24

2013

Dot Porter has written a post sharing her experience working with the NYPL Digital Collections API . Porter explains her initial attempts, roadblocks, and solutions to batch-downloading MODS records for between 1500 and 2000 objects. (Hint: she was able to do it “with a Mac terminal and just a little bit of XSLT.”)

POST: Digital Humanities at MLA 2014

Sep

24

2013

Mark Sample has once again helpfully compiled a list of “digitally inflected” sessions taking place at the 2014 convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), in Chicago. A few of interest to the library community: The Twenty-First-Century Library: Discovery Services versus Subject Specialists Meeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate Research Text-nology Idea Jam: ...

PROJECT: The History Education Pilot Takes Off

Sep

24

2013

The European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO) is collaborating on a project aimed at re-using the digitized cultural heritage resources of Europeana. The history education pilot will offer history educators easy-to-find and free-to-use educational resources (sources, learning activities and tools) that are designed to stimulate historical thinking, multiperspectivity and active learning. The focus of the ...

CFParticipation: Building an #AccessibleFuture

Sep

24

2013

Jen Guiliano and George H. Williams have announced a series of workshops addressing accessibility issues in digital technologies: Workshop 1 will be November 15-16, 2013 at Northeastern University, Boston, MA Workshop 2 will be March 28-29, 2014 at the University of Texas, Austin, TX Workshop 3 will be fall of 2014 at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, ...

POST: Research Data Sharing without Barriers…Get Involved?

Sep

24

2013

Rachel Bruce (JISC) introduces the Research Data Alliance (RDA) by summarizing the group’s first plenary meeting that took place in Washington, D.C. from September 16-18th, 2013. Some of the areas that the groups are tackling: metadata & a metadata standards directory; legal interoperability; data citation; a community capability model; persistent identifiers; practical policy; data foundation ...

RESOURCE: “Out of Cite, Out of Mind” Report on Data Citation

Sep

24

2013

“Out of Cite, Out of Mind,” a new report looking at issues surrounding data citation has been released by the US Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI). The report discusses the current state of data citation policies and practices, its supporting infrastructure, a set of ...

RECOMMENDED: Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities

Sep

17

2013

Stephen Ramsay, Alan Liu, Alex Reid and others have recently engaged in a fruitful conversation about the role of cultural criticism in the digital humanities. Ramsay begins the exchange with a post revisiting Liu’s 2011 article in Debates in the Digital Humanities, “Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” Quoting Liu, “How the digital ...

CFProposals: Museums and the Web 2014

Sep

17

2013

The Museums and the Web 2014 conference, to be held April 2-5, 2014 in Baltimore, is accepting proposals for conference sessions. Proposals may fit one of several types, including pre-conference workshops, formal papers, how-to sessions, lightning talks, and Best of the Web, to name a few. The conference showcases “advanced research and exemplary applications of ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarships

Sep

17

2013

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute will be accepting applications for scholarships for the Summer 2014 Institute. The scholarships cover tuition costs with the exception of a small, non-refundable administration fee (students $150, non-students $300). Details for submitting applications will be announced via the DHSI e-mail list and DHInstitute on Twitter. Applications are considered on a ...