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POST: Biases and Errors In Our Tools: How Do You Cope? Reflections of a Newcomer to Textual Analysis

Mar

4

2014

Jennifer Vinopal (New York University) asks the question, “how do you cope with the possibility that the tools you are using may be biased (or error prone) and that the “black box” is sending you down the wrong research highway?” Vinopal relates her experience using a text analysis tool that revealed the term “e-books” was ...

RESOURCE: A Draft Style Guide for Digital Collection Hypertexts

Mar

4

2014

Trevor Owens (Library of Congress) offers a draft style guide for online collections that will be particularly useful for those responsible for creating and curating digital content (such as exhibits built in Omeka). Owens seeks to “take the ideas of exhibition and print publications that make extensive use of deep captions and figure out how ...

RESOURCE: Beyond Gatekeepers of Knowledge: Scholarly Communication Practices of Academic Librarians and Archivists at ARL Institutions

Mar

4

2014

A recent article in College & Research Libraries by Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Andrew Tsou, Sara Naslund, Alexandra Hauser, Melissa Brandon, Danielle Winter, Cody Behles and S. Craig Finlay examines the role of librarians and archivists as scholars. The article has implications for librarians involved in digital projects, particularly those who assert that their contribution to DH ...

RESOURCE: Web Archives for Historians

Mar

4

2014

Web Archives for Historians is building “a collective, crowd-sourced bibliography to bring historians together who are using, thinking about using, or getting interested in web archives.” Contributions to the bibliography may be blog posts or articles or anything in between, and should cover one of the following: (a) reflections on the need for web preservation, ...

POST: What Week Is It? Fair Use Week of Course!

Feb

25

2014

Kevin Smith (Scholarly Communications Officer, Duke University) introduces Fair Use week, taking place Feb. 24-28, and organized by the Harvard Library’s Office for Scholarly Communication. Smith contextualizes this celebration, noting that fair use: is today one of the most important underpinnings of scholarship. We argue about its scope sometimes, but we rely on it everyday. The ...

POST: Analyzing Historical History Dissertations

Feb

25

2014

Lincoln A. Mullen (Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University) has written a series of posts analyzing historical history dissertations using data from the Proquest Dissertations and Theses Database. Mullen was able to obtain two “dumps” from the database: From the MARC records that ProQuest gave me, I’ve been able to extract a number of fields, only some ...

RESOURCE: Combining Narrative Text, Information Visualization, and Computational Models [VIDEO]

Feb

25

2014

Elijah Meeks (Digital Humanities Specialist, Stanford University Library) recently gave a talk on “Combining Narrative, Model, and Information Visualization” at a joint meetup of the Bay Area D3 User Group and Data Visualization Group. Video of the talk, which also introduces some of the digital humanities projects at Stanford, such as Kindred Britain, is now online. ...

CFP: Bibliography for the 21st Century (MLA 2015)

Feb

25

2014

A call for proposals sponsored by the Libraries and Research discussion group and the Bibliography and Textual Studies discussion group of the Modern Language Association (MLA) has been issued on “Bibliography for the 21st Century”: Bibliography has long been integral to literary studies, textual studies, and book history. Not only does it serve an evidentiary ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, OSU Libraries

Feb

25

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Librarian will establish and grow a dynamic, multifaceted program that addresses the growing demand for digital arts and humanities support on campus. Working with arts and humanities scholars, faculty and students, the Digital Humanities Librarian will foster successful adoption and application of digital arts and humanities approaches to research, ...

JOB: Digital Collections Specialist, Library of Virginia

Feb

25

2014

From the announcement: The Library of Virginia, the archival agency for the Commonwealth of Virginia, is seeking a creative and innovative professional to serve as our Digital Collections Specialist. Reporting to the Digital Initiatives & Web Services Manager in the Information Technology Division, the individual selected for this position will work with the agency staff ...

TAPAS: Publishing and Archiving TEI

Feb

19

2014

In this post, Julia Flanders and Scott Hamlin introduce the Text Encoding Initiative Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service project (TAPAS), which will launch in spring 2014, and invite the community to beta test the service. For over 20 years, scholars of all kinds have been encoding transcriptions of scholarly and archival documents using the Text ...