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RESOURCE: Getting Started with APIs

May

6

2014

In a post for ACRL TechConnect, Lauren Magnuson (Trine University) writes a primer on getting started with APIs, including an overview of basic terminology, authentication, and methods for working with APIs. Magnuson also provides a case study using the Twitter API, which can be used for creating bots, automating tweets, and connecting Twitter with other ...

CFP: Digital Small-Scale Editions, 2015 Issue of Scholarly Editing

May

6

2014

Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing is accepting proposals for its 2015 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 ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACH Microgrants 2014: DH Pedagogies

May

6

2014

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is accepting proposals for microgrants – awards up to $1,000 and $3,000 total grant call – related to pedagogy, although all applications will be considered. Projects should be completed within roughly six months, and might include: a framework for sharing DH syllabi a means of annotating and sharing ...

JOB: Research Associate, Oxford e-Research Centre

May

6

2014

From the job description: We are seeking a Research Associate which is a technical role working on Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies that support research in Digital Humanities, specifically for the ElEPHãT and Transforming Musicology projects. These projects share a need for identifying and semantically linking diverse digital resources (images of books OCR-ed text, ...

JOBS: Digital Scholarship Librarians, Boston College

May

6

2014

From the position announcement: Boston College Libraries seeks two creative, knowledgeable, and intellectually curious Digital Scholarship Librarians (Arts & Humanities and Sciences & Social Sciences) to advance digital scholarship initiatives at Boston College by providing consultation, technical support, and project management for faculty, librarians, staff, and students engaged in technology-rich scholarly projects … s/he works ...

POST: The Archive as Data Platform

Apr

29

2014

In a post prompted by the release of the Carter Cables by WikiLeaks, Ed Summers asks the question: What if instead of trying to build the ultimate user experience for archival content, archives focused first and foremost on providing simple access to the underlying data first? Responding to the “URL inspection” that is necessary to ...

CFParticipation: Unhidden Collections (CLIR)

Apr

29

2014

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has announced the end of its “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” program as it shifts instead towards considering the issue of digitization: The input of our constituents will be invaluable in informing our next steps. We are keenly interested in hearing your thoughts about the place of ...

POST: Affinity of Ideas: Using an Affinity Wall to Map Out My Digital Dissertation

Apr

29

2014

Amanda Visconti (University of Maryland), who recently posted about her digital dissertation, “Infinite Ulysses,” has written a post introducing the organizational technique of affinity mapping. She explains: It’s a way to take a bunch of separate ideas and visually map out how they’re related (thus, “affinity”); this helps your areas of focus (or paper section headings) ...

RECOMMENDED: In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities

Apr

29

2014

The latest issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies is organized around the theme, In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities (subscription required). The issue draws on ideas first presented at an MLA 2013 session titled, “The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities,” and later expanded into a 2-day conference sponsored by the Center for 21st ...

POST: Neotopology

Apr

29

2014

Elijah Meeks (Stanford University Libraries) has posted notes from his talk at the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium’s First Annual Conference, Networks in the Humanities (#txdhc). Among several topics, Meeks addresses the notion of scholarly “interlopers” with respect to the digital humanities: I think interloping, more than computational approaches or the digital broadly construed as the object of ...

PROJECT: ieldran, the Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Mapping Project

Apr

21

2014

Katy Myers (Michigan State University) announced that ieldran, the Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Mapping Project built as part of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative (a partnership between Michigan State’s Department of Anthropology and Matrix), is live. The Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Mapping Project provides locations, summaries, and information about citation and collections for numerous cemeteries from the mid-5th to early 7th century ...