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JOB: Digital Applications Librarian, University of Oregon

Jun

24

2014

From the position description: The Digital Applications Librarian is responsible for providing leadership and expertise for the Libraries on existing and emerging technologies including digital repository, discovery and preservation systems. This position manages the day-to-day technical support for digital asset management systems and digital humanities’ tools; recommends, configures, and provides support for new and emerging ...

dh+lib Guide to ALA Annual 2014

Jun

18

2014

To aid in navigating the behemoth that is the ALA Annual Conference (1797 sessions!), we’ve compiled a list of sessions that intersect in some way with the digital humanities. Thanks to all who responded to our call for suggestions, including Kristen Mapes, Abby Scheel, and Lisa McFall. Have a session you’d like us to add? ...

TOOL: Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)

Jun

17

2014

The British Library Digital Scholarship blog posted an update on the Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT), which was one of the winners of the British Library Labs Competition 2014. TILT tackles the challenge of making manuscripts machine readable by “link[ing] the transcription to the page-image at the word-level.” Here’s how the tool works: As the user moves ...

POST: A Win, Oddly

Jun

17

2014

Kevin Smith (Duke University) has written a post on the Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog about the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decision, which Smith describes as “another important win for libraries and fair use.” Smith discusses a technical but important aspect of the decision: The oddity about this remand is that it does not actually question the conclusion that digitization for ...

CFParticipation: Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship Colloquium: Pedagogy & Practices

Jun

17

2014

The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University is soliciting proposals for their Pedagogy & Practices Colloquium in November. The Center welcomes proposals for panels, papers, and presentations that address pedagogical approaches for using digital tools in humanities, science, and social science classrooms. Submission topics may include ...

RESOURCE: Manuscriptlink

Jun

16

2014

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) released several videos recently from their spring membership meeting, including video of a talk by Eric J. Johnson (Ohio State University) about a digital humanities initiative called Manuscriptlink. Together with a tools and metadata, Manuscriptlink “provides a worldwide ‘collective collection’ of virtual manuscripts from ca. 800 to ca. 1600, drawn from thousands of individual ...

POST: Bringing an “Archival Mind” to the Evolving Scholarly Record

Jun

16

2014

Responding to the #esrworkshop (Evolving Scholarly Record and Evolving Stewardship Ecosystem workshop, preceding a meeting on Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support), Jennifer Schaffner (OCLC Research Library Partnership) has written a post on the “evolving scholarly record.” Schaffner considers the changing nature of archival collections in the digital age as “components of the ‘scholarly record.'” Schaffner discusses how context ties ...

POST: Preserving Digital and Software-Based Artworks

Jun

16

2014

In a post to The Signal, Kate Murray (Library of Congress) summarizes a recent meeting of the NDSA Standards and Practices Working Group, focused on issues around preserving digital and software-based artworks. Presenters from the Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian’s Time Based Media Art initiative, and the San ...

RECOMMENDED: The (Digital) Library of Babel

Jun

10

2014

The closing keynote address to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2014 was given this year by Alex Gil (Columbia University), under the title, “The (Digital) Library of Babel.” With nods to both Jerome McGann and Bethany Nowviskie, Gil reminds us of the intellectual urgency surrounding the work undertaken by digital humanities scholars, and calls for a more ...

POST: How to Get a Digital Humanities Project off the Ground

Jun

10

2014

Paige Morgan (University of Washington) has written a post summarizing the advice she shared while leading an unconference session at DHSI 2014. “How to Get a Digital Humanities Project off the Ground” includes 15 points of general and specific recommendations. Though some address issues that are specific to graduate students, many could be useful for librarians ...

POST: What’s in a Digital Archivist’s Toolset?

Jun

10

2014

Jackie Dooley (OCLC Research) has written a series of posts looking at the current landscape of job ads and requirements for digital archivist positions. “What’s in a Digital Archivist’s Toolset?” summarizes both the technical and non-technical skills required in the most recent listings. Dooley has compiled the “well-worded statements” that she encountered, noting: The range of ...