RECOMMENDED: Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship

Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) has shared a post, “Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies as an Object Lesson,” based on her recent keynote at the ACRL-Delaware Valley Chapter annual meeting. Porter writes: “I … realized that reuse of data is not new. In fact, it is ancient, and thinking in these ...

CFParticipation: Digital Literary Studies (Journal)

Digital Literary Studies (site under development), a new open access peer-reviewed journal based out of Pennsylvania State University, is currently building its editorial team: Digital Literary Studies will look to publish scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources. … We are inviting expressions of interest ...

JOB: Digital Publishing Production Lead, Mason Publishing

From the announcement: Mason Publishing Group seeks an experienced professional responsible for the management of and front-line user support for digital publishing tools and platforms. Mason Publishing Group is a new initiative that unites the George Mason University Libraries’ existing digital publishing activity with the George Mason University Press to form a new set of ...

JOB: HathiTrust Research Center Digital Humanities Specialist

From the announcement: Reporting to the English and Digital Humanities Librarian, the Visiting HTRC Digital Humanities Specialist will assist with the development of training and outreach initiatives in support of libraries who wish to start their own HTRC research services as well as researchers working with the Hathi Trust Research Center.  Responsibilities will include planning, ...

POST: Submissions to Digital Humanities 2015 (pt. 1-3)

Scott Weingart (Indiana University) has written a series of posts about submissions to Digital Humanities 2015. The first post provides an overview of submissions, the second post compares and contrasts submissions for 2015 with the previous two years, and the third post investigates “the geography of submissions.” He observes, among other shifts, a rise in ...

RESOURCE: Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities

Alex Christie (University of Victoria), Andrew Pilsch (Arizona State University), Shawna Ross (Arizona State University- Polytechnic), and Katie Tanigawa (University of Victoria) released the Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities following the Modernist Studies Association Annual conference.  The manifesto offers strategies for critiquing methods and content, a framework for how modernists can create their own digital strategies: Modernists Digital Strategies should ...

POST: Johannes Factotum and the Ends of Expertise

Bethany Nowviskie has shared the text of her keynote address at the 2014 Digital Library Federation Forum, in which she examines the changing nature of expertise in the academy. Nowviskie lauds the DLF community and the Forum in particular for bringing together a unique mix of experts and generalists: The ability (actually, I think, the ...

POST: The Internet Arcade and the Textures of Emulation

Matthew Battles (metaLAB at Harvard) has written a post reflecting on his recent visit to the Internet Archive, where he was given a peek into Jason Scott‘s work archiving computer software and arcade games after giving a talk at the Books in Browsers conference. It’s technologically both antic and elegant: Jason’s system has parsed and ...

RESOURCE: Library Collections as Humanities Data

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has shared a postprint pdf of a paper co-authored with Devin Higgins that “argues for thinking about library collections as Humanities data.” As Padilla writes in a blog post introducing their work: I think its important that we as librarians study and argue about our collections in a manner befitting ...

CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2015

Proposals are now being accepted for the Personal Digital Archiving 2015 conference, to take place April 24-26, 2015, in New York City. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program, the NYU Libraries, and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the conference “will have two full days of presentations focused on a set ...

RESOURCE: Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline

Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library) has shared the online pdf of the paper she co-wrote with Matthew Kirschenbaum (MITH) for the journal Book History, titled “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline.” Reflecting on her blog, Werner writes that:  Our review essay, “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies,” takes as its argument our belief that book historians ...