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RESOURCE: Digital Preservation Tool Grid

May

15

2013

Preserving (Digital) Objects With Restricted Resources (POWRR) has created a useful grid that tracks 24 different features of over 45 digital preservation tools, ranging from the very basic (e.g. Dropbox) to powerful, full-service platforms (e.g. Portico). The information was culled from tool websites, contacting the tool developers directly, discussion boards, and some direct tool testing, ...

RESOURCE: Catalog Search Plugin for Omeka

May

15

2013

Lincoln Mullen, PhD candidate at Brandeis University, has created the Catalog Search plugin for Omeka, which builds upon Omeka’s Library of Congress Subject Heading plugin to search Archive Grid, the DPLA, Google Books, Google Scholar, the Hathi Trust, JSTOR, the Library of Congress, and WorldCat based on subject heading. See it in action at the ...

RESOURCE: CKAN

May

15

2013

The Open Knowledge Foundation has announced the release of CKAN, an open source data management system that provides tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. CKAN is intended for large and small data publishers, and will soon power data.gov, the U.S. government open data portal that will soon be seeing a spike in ...

RECOMMENDED: U.S. Open Data Policy

May

15

2013

On May 9, 2013, the U.S. government issued Executive Order 13642, declaring that “the default state of new and modernized Government information resources shall be open and machine readable.” The announcement coincided with a memorandum outlining the creation of an open data policy that requires government agencies “to collect or create information in a way ...

RECOMMENDED: #dhpoco Open Thread

May

15

2013

The Digital Humanities as a Historical “Refuge” From Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability? Sparked by David Golumbia’s recap of the “Dark Side of the Digital” conference (#c21dsd) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Postcolonial Digital Humanities posted an open thread on the issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability in DH. The thread has generated over 150 comments, providing ...

RESOURCE: Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy

May

7

2013

The National Academies Press has released a new report outlining the need for increased empirical research on U.S. copyright law. Sponsored in part* by Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) and noted copyright expert Pamela Samuelson, Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy: describes a wide range of questions that are ripe for analysis: ...

CFP: British Library Labs Competition 2013

May

7

2013

The British Library Labs has announced the details of a competition ” designed to attract scholars, explorers, trailblazers and software developers who see the potential for new and innovative research and development opportunities lurking within these immense digital collections.” Details from the site: We’re looking for people over 18 who are interested in researching and developing ...

POST: Historicizing the Digital for Digital Preservation Education

May

7

2013

Once again, The Signal features an excellent interview highlighting the work of digital preservationists. This time, Trevor Owens talks with Alison Langmead and Brian Beaton, who are co-teaching a course on digital preservation at the University of Pittsburgh. Their innovative approach to structuring the course is described as “Media Archaeology meets Historical Epistemology”: [W]e wanted to ...

CFP: Call for DH Commons Advisory Board

May

7

2013

centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers, has issued a request for nominations for Advisory Board members for its new publication, DHCommons: The Advisory Board will join Co-Lead-Editor Ryan Cordell, a Co-Lead-Editor from outside North America to be named soon, and Technical Editor Quinn Dombrowski. The Board will be drawn from centerNet’s regions and help ensure the global vision ...

RECOMMENDED: DH Genealogies and the Academy (Weekend Round-Up)

May

7

2013

“I just got done with a good twenty-four hours of arguing with people online about digital humanities.” So begins Stephen Ramsay’s post, “DH Types One and Two,” written in response to a flurry of conversations that took place online over the weekend. In part a reaction to Daniel Allington’s “Managerial Humanities: or, Why the Digital ...

JOB: Project Manager, MITH

Apr

30

2013

From the position description: The Project Manager will work with senior MITH staff to conceptualize, implement, and manage digital humanities research work in a collaborative, team-driven environment. The successful candidate will have experience developing and administering collaborative research projects and events; strong oral and written communications skills; experience writing for, and working with, academic and ...