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RECOMMENDED: The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities

Aug

13

2015

The newest issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly will feature an article by Alix Keener (University of Michigan) addressing questions around collaboration between digital humanities researchers and academic librarians. “The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities” is based on research conducted with participants from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries, which includes ...

POST: A Dataset for Distant-Reading Literature in English, 1700-1922

Aug

13

2015

Ted Underwood has written a post describing his work in collaboration with HathiTrust Research Center to create a dataset for scholars looking to get started with distant reading methods on 18th & 19th century literature (in English). Using the page-level wordcounts available in HTRC and pairing them with page-level metadata created to track the genre ...

RESOURCE: Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective

Aug

13

2015

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released a recording of “Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective,” a presentation by Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University), Lisa Spiro (Rice University), and Xuemao Wang (University of Cincinnati) given at the Spring 2015 meeting. The presentation shares results from a Mellon-funded ...

CFP: Journal of Open Humanities Data

Aug

13

2015

The Journal of Open Humanities Data invites submissions for publications “describing humanities data, software, and ontologies with high potential for reuse.” The journal, an open-access and peer-reviewed publication, has an open call for: 1. Metapapers describe humanities research objects with high reuse potential. This might include quantitative and qualitative data, software, algorithms, maps, simulations, ontologies ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Specialist, University of the Pacific

Aug

13

2015

From the announcement: The University of the Pacific seeks to hire a creative and collaborative Digital Humanities Specialist (DHS) to develop and manage strategies and infrastructure for curating digital and pre-digital content and data; provide computer programming support for projects; and author and/or co-author new digital humanities resources or scholarship. This is a full-time 20-24 ...

JOB: Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, Boston College

Aug

13

2015

From the announcement: Boston College Libraries seek a Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian to guide digital preservation and digital archiving activities for an increasing amount of born-digital and digitized content. Working closely with the Head of the Digital Library Program and in concert with team members and professionals across the libraries, he or she will ...

RECOMMENDED: How to destroy special collections with social media

Aug

6

2015

Sarah Werner has posted the slides, notes, and audio from her recent talk at Rare Book School, “How to Destroy Special Collections with Social Media in 3 Easy Steps: A Guide for Researchers and Librarians.” After pointing out that many special collections are engaging in outreach via social media, Werner lays out, step-by-step, how to ...

RECOMMENDED: What’s Counted Counts

Aug

6

2015

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) wrote a blog post, reflecting on his research on gender inequality in academia, particularly for his ongoing blog series on acceptances to the annual Digital Humanities conference. I’ll cut to the chase. My well-intentioned attempts at battling inequality suffer their own sort of bias: by focusing on measurements of inequality, I bias that ...

POST: ADHO Announces New SIG, Libraries and Digital Humanities

Aug

6

2015

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has announced the formation of a new Special Interest Group, Libraries and Digital Humanities: ADHO’s Libraries and Digital Humanities SIG aims at fostering collaboration and communication among librarians and other scholars doing DH work, by showcasing the work of librarians engaged in DH projects, advocating for initiatives of interest and ...

POST: What is “extended” about Extended Collective Licensing?

Aug

6

2015

Kevin Smith (Duke University) has authored a post for the Duke University Libraries Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog on the US Copyright Office’s new proposals on orphan works and mass digitization. Smith breaks down the proposals, including how the “extended collective licensing” provision would work: Alongside this proposal for how to deter use of individual orphan ...

RESOURCE: Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship

Aug

6

2015

In the Library with the Lead Pipe recently published “Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship,” by Juleah Swanson (University of Colorado Boulder), Ione Damasco (University of Dayton), Isabel Gonzalez-Smith (University of Illinois, Chicago), Dracine Hodges (the Ohio State University), Todd Honma (Pitzer College), and Azusa Tanaka (University of Washington). ...