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RESOURCE: Crowdsourcing + Machine Learning: Nicholas Woodward at TCDL

Jun

4

2013

Nicholas Woodward, Software Developer at the University of Texas Libraries, shares the text of the talk he gave at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Woodward describes his novel approach for transcribing the Digital Archive of the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive, a collection of over 12 million pages: My approach looks to break up ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Rutgers University

Jun

4

2013

From the position description: The Digital Humanities Librarian will: – Provide leadership and instruction within the Libraries on the creation and curation of digital objects for the humanities in all formats, fostering collaboration among scholars, technologists, and information specialists. – Utilize the infrastructure of RUcore (Rutgers Community Repository) to archive, preserve, and present digital resources. ...

RECOMMENDED: Data curation as publishing for digital humanists

Jun

4

2013

Text and slides from a talk delivered by Trevor Muñoz, Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research at the University of Maryland Libraries, at the CIC Center for Library Initiatives conference. Muñoz presents an intriguing synthesis of a couple of growing trends in libraries – data curation and publishing. Data curation here is defined as “information work ...

RESOURCE: “What’s in it for Me?”; or, Collaboration is not an End in Itself

Jun

4

2013

In April, Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Strategist at Emory University, delivered a talk at Case Western Reserve University as part of a colloquium on “Exploring Collaboration in Digital Scholarship.” As he described in his write-up of the talk, the heart of Croxall’s argument is the idea that collaboration is not an end in itself. Furthermore, If you ...

POST: Function over Form: understanding the TCP encoding philosophy

Jun

4

2013

Sarah Wingo from the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), a group of libraries that encode early printed books, outlines one of the Partnership’s basic rules for marking up texts: function over form. Serving the goal of creating searchable texts, “TCP aims to capture structural information which will be useful for intelligible display, informed searching, and intelligent navigation. ...

RECOMMENDED: The Joy of Topic Modeling

Jun

4

2013

Matt Burton, graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Information, provides an accessible introduction to topic modeling. Aimed at beginners (though useful for everyone), the article unpacks the meaning of the terms used in topic modeling, such as model, word, document, topic, tokenization and stemming. For example, At the start of any text ...

RECOMMENDED: The Poetics of Non-Consumptive Reading

May

28

2013

Building off of the amicus brief filed by Matthew Jockers, et al. in Authors Guild vs. Google, Mark Sample (George Mason University) has written a provocative post urging digital humanists to think critically about what it means to frame non-consumptive use–text-mining, topic modeling, etc.–as “non-expressive.” As the brief’s abstract explains: The brief argues that, just ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Ohio State University

May

28

2013

The Ohio State University Libraries have announced several openings as part of its Research and Education Faculty Librarian Cohort Search, including a Digital Humanities Librarian [pdf], a Geospatial Information Librarian [pdf], and a Data Management Services Librarian [pdf]. A portion of the announcement for the Digital Humanities Librarian position is reproduced below: Digital Humanities Librarian Responsibilities Conduct environmental ...

EVENT: Digital Preservation 2013

May

28

2013

Registration is now open for Digital Preservation 2013, the annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). Taking place on July 23-25 in Alexandria, VA, the conference is free but seats are limited. The first two days feature a great lineup of speakers, including ...

JOB: Lead Academic Programmer, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities

May

28

2013

From the job description: Reporting to the Academic Technology Manager, the Lead Academic Programmer architects and writes code for humanities and digital humanities projects, and provides project management and development team oversight for designated projects. This includes three primary areas: web development, instructional programming, and faculty-driven digital research projects. The incumbent works with faculty and ...

POST: How Collaboration Works and How It Can Fail

May

28

2013

In a thoughtful post, Elijah Meeks (Stanford University Libraries) considers the role of the librarian in digital humanities projects, touching on the question of academic hierarchies, alt-ac, and the professional designation of librarians as “staff”: Anyone who has worked with undergraduate and graduate research assistants knows that their effort and engagement is not demanded but ...