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Defining Digital Social Sciences

Apr

9

2014

In this post, Lisa Spiro (Rice University) provides an overview of the different facets of digital social sciences, observing points of connection with digital humanities. As a member of a research team investigating the skills and competencies important to digital scholarship, I’ve become interested in what “digital scholarship” means in different disciplines, particularly the social sciences and ...

POST: Digital History and the Death of Quant

Apr

8

2014

In a post on the British Library’s Digital Scholarship Blog, James Baker (Curator, Digital Research) poses the question, “What do historians need to do good digital research?” In his answer, Baker laments the lack of basic training in statistical and quantitative methods offered to historians in undergraduate programs: As someone who was trained during the ...

POST: The Dividends of Difference: Recognizing DH’s Diverse Family Tree/s

Apr

8

2014

Tom Scheinfeldt (University of Connecticut) has posted a recent talk, “The Dividends of Difference: Recognizing Digital Humanities’ Diverse Family Tree/s,” in which he advocates for a more nuanced genealogy of DH. Framed by his realization that minimizing differences in digital humanities “in the name of collegiality” can be problematic (nodding to #dhpoco for its important work ...

RESOURCE: Value & Impact of Data Curation & Sharing (JISC Report)

Apr

8

2014

Clifford Lynch (CNI) points to a new report from JISC (the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee) that summarizes key finding from recent studies on research data services. The Value and Impact of Data Curation and Sharing: A Synthesis of Three Recent Studies of UK Research Data Centres [pdf] (Neal Beagrie and John Houghton) draws on studies ...

CFP: DHCommons Journal

Apr

8

2014

DHCommons, a new journal from centerNet, seeks submissions for “mid-stage digital projects who wish peer review and feedback that will contribute to the project’s development,” to be included in its inaugural issue (late Fall 2014). The DHCommons journal aims to support digital humanities scholarship by providing peer review for mid-stage digital projects. DHCommons will make visible the important work that often ...

JOB: DPLA Metadata Coordinator

Apr

8

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Public Library of America is recruiting for a Metadata Coordinator to join our growing team. The Metadata Coordinator will be a member of the Content Team and will report to the Director for Content. The Metadata Coordinator: serves as DPLA’s metadata expert, responsible for DPLA MAP data model creation and ...

CFP: Practices in the Digital Humanities Book Series

Apr

8

2014

Proposals are now being accepted for “Practices in the Digital Humanities,” a new series of short, practice-based books on the digital humanities from digitalculturebooks, an imprint of Michigan Publishing. More about the series: This book series is focused on the practices of the digital humanities by providing best practices, models, case studies, and examples of how to ...

We’re Looking for dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Summer 2014

Apr

8

2014

The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for editors-at-large for the Summer 2014 semester. We’ve had a steadily increasing number of editors-at-large for each of the four semesters the Review has been in operation, and we’re hoping to continue the trend. Sign up ...

PROJECT: Beyond Citation

Apr

1

2014

Eileen Clancy (City University of NY) discusses the ideas behind Beyond Citation, a project from students in the Digital Praxis Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center that seeks to understand how “databases shape the questions that can be asked and the arguments that can be made by scholars through search interfaces, algorithms, and the items ...

POST: Critical Code Studies Working Group: In Review

Apr

1

2014

Viola Lasmana (University of Southern California) provides a summary of the recently completed, month-long Critical Code Studies Working Group, an online discussion group based at the University of Southern California seeking to apply “humanities hermeneutics to the interpretation of the extra-functional significance of computer source code.” The first week of discussion centered around exploratory programming, ...

RESOURCE: 4R-Digitization

Apr

1

2014

4R-Digitization has launched. By relying on VC funding to scaffold a post-digital infrastructure, the project aims to model public-private partnerships in DH. From the announcement: Notable projects in DH have focused on transcription, with efforts aimed at improving Optical Character Recognition (OCR) through machine learning or employing crowdsourcing techniques to transcribe texts. Emphasizing the transformation of ...