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POST: The Invention & Dissemination of the Transparent GIF

Apr

9

2015

Trevor Owens (Institute of Museum and Library Services) authored a post about the invention and dissemination of the transparent GIF, noting: “These invisible files have a story to tell, and I think exploring there presence and traces in web archives can end up illustrating some ideas for modes of researching in web archives.” [sic] Owens ...

POST: Not Enough Perspectives, Pt. 1

Apr

2

2015

Scott Weingart (Indiana University) wades into the conversation about Syuzhet, distant reading, and “the great unread” in a recent blog post, “Not Enough Perspectives, Pt.1.” Syuzhet is an R package created by Matthew Jockers (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) and used to extract sentiment in text analysis, which became the subject of much discussion, in part ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists

Apr

2

2015

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, a new book edited by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb is available from the American Library Assocation. The book, published in collaboration with the ACRL Literatures in English Section, features a “collection of essays focusing on the role of the subject specialist in ...

RESOURCE: The Complete n00b’s Guide to Gephi

Apr

2

2015

Brian Sarnacki (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) has created a tutorial for beginners interested in using the visualization tool Gephi (Mac users having trouble with Gephi should start here). Sarnacki provides a sample CSV file that lists bankers in Grand Rapids in 1902, and walks through the process of prepping data, importing the CSV file into Gephi, ...

CFP: Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze

Apr

2

2015

Proposals are being accepted for Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze, to be held November 12-13, 2015, at the University of Michigan. Possible topics include: The role of libraries, archives and museums in building and sustaining curated web collections. Methods and tools for preserving and curating online materials. Resources and best practices to promote access ...

CFP: Digital Small-Scale Editions, 2016 Issue of Scholarly Editing

Apr

2

2015

Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing is accepting proposals for its 2016 issue from individuals interested in editing a small-scale digital edition, which will be peer reviewed and open access. We believe that many scholars have discovered fascinating texts that deserve to be carefully edited and published, and we offer a ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Dartmouth College

Apr

2

2015

From the position description: Reporting to the Scholarly Communication, Copyright and Publishing Program Director, the Digital Scholarship Librarian provides expertise, information management, technical and organizational skills to the realization of the Library’s Scholarly Communication Program’s strategic goals and initiatives in a highly collaborative environment. The successful candidate will coordinate and implement programs that provide the ...

CFP: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference

Mar

26

2015

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is accepting proposals for its annual Scholarly Publishing Conference, to be held August 11-14, 2015 in Vancouver. Suggested topics include: Roles for next generation scholars, researchers, and librarians; Community connections and partnerships among scholarly journals, the digital humanities, and libraries; Open education and open learning; New reading and publishing technologies, e.g., ...

RESOURCE: Textual Artifacts and their Digital Representations: Teaching Graduate Students to Build Online Archives

Mar

26

2015

The new issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly includes an article by Deena Engel and Marion Thain (NYU) on “Textual Artifacts and their Digital Representations: Teaching Graduate Students to Build Online Archives.” From the article abstract: Co-teaching a digital archives course (ENGL-GA.2971) for graduate students in the English Department allowed us to bring together our expertise in both research ...

POST: Digitization Challenges – A Discussion in Progress

Mar

26

2015

Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC) gives an overview of challenges currently faced by libraries working to digitize collections, as reported in a series of discussions hosted by OCLC Research. These challenges, which will inform future work from OCLC Research, include: Metadata: Item-level description vs collection descriptions “…there is an inherent challenge in digitizing collections at the item or ...

JOB: Digital Archive Summer Fellowship, HistoryMakers

Mar

26

2015

From the description: The James A. Lindner Digital Archive Summer Fellow’s primary tasks will include the arrangement, description and preservation of The HistoryMakers Collection. The Fellow will help migrate digital footage, enter metadata into The HistoryMakers FileMaker Pro database, and process The HistoryMakers video oral history interviews, both analog and born-digital, as well as captioning ...