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The Research Commons in 2014 and Beyond

Jan

30

2014

In the final post of a three-part series, Donald Beagle explores future prospects for the use of an enhanced variant of the Commons models to facilitate DH in libraries. The previous two posts recounted influences on Beagle’s application of Strategic Alignment to manage Information Commons in libraries and the subsequent development of change management approaches. ...

PROJECT: Mapping Books: Charting Former Owners of Penn’s Codex Manuscripts

Jan

28

2014

Mitch Fraas shared his project leveraging library data “to visually display networks of provenance in our manuscript collection” at the University of Pennsylvania. Fraas offers insights on how he was able to transform MARC records into a visual map to learn more about previous owners of some of Penn’s manuscript collections and shares some of his future ...

RESOURCE: Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist

Jan

28

2014

The most recent issue of the Code4Lib Journal includes Anthony Cocciolo’s “Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist.” Cocciolo, an Assistant Professor at Pratt’s School of Information and Library Science, outlines the basics for learning Unix. He describes Unix as offering “high-quality tools for quickly transforming born-digital and digitized assets, such as resizing videos, creating ...

POST: On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack”

Jan

28

2014

Bethany Nowviskie has written a post outlining the history of the familiar digital humanities phrase, “more hack; less yack.” She provides essential context behind the much-debated term: In other words, isn’t “more hack; less yack” really just a strawman? I only find it being used in earnest beyond the academic DH community—and, when pressed, even ...

POST: Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovation in Scholarly Publishing

Jan

27

2014

Johanna Drucker has written an article for the Los Angles Review of Books discussing the misconception that digital technology will “cure” academic publishing: To make sure humanities scholarship thrives, it is crucial that we cut through the fog of pixel dust–induced illusion to the practical realities of what digital technology offers to scholarship. Among the ...

POST: A 3-Step Introduction to Digital Humanities for Library-Dwellers

Jan

27

2014

Ashley Maynard has written an introduction to digital humanities for librarians. The post is part of a series published for Hack Library School’s Digital Humanities Week. Reflecting on her new role as Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Tennessee Libraries, Maynard offers suggestions and resources for getting started in digital humanities. Maynard also remarks what many of ...

POST: Slavery, Memory, Property

Jan

26

2014

John Drabinski has written a post reflecting on memory, property, and digitized materials responding to Readex’s announcement of the availability of a trove of newly digitized materials documenting slavery and abolition between 1820-1922. While Drabinski is excited about the availability of this material on his desktop, he also raises concerns about the paywall and the ...

POST: The Neoliberal Library: Resistance is Not Futile

Jan

21

2014

Chris Bourg (Standford University) writes about the role of the library in the neoliberal university, based on a talk she gave at Duke University on January 14, 2014. Several aspects of neoliberalism are defined, such as “the extension of market logic into previously non-economic realms,” and examples of this mentality in libraries are provided. For instance, ...

CFP: Beautiful Data: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections

Jan

21

2014

Harvard University will be hosting Beautiful Data: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections, June 16 — June 27, 2014. Sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the institute will introduce participants to the “concepts and skills necessary to make use of open collections to develop art-historical storytelling through data visualization, interactive media, enhanced curatorial ...

RESOURCE: Basics of Creating a Scroll Kit Narrative

Jan

21

2014

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has created a tutorial for using Scroll Kit, a simple drag-and-drop framework for creating “multimedia works in a scrolling format suitable for long-form narratives.” Posner also provides a second, advanced tutorial that concentrates on the parallax effect in Scroll Kit. Popular with online journalism outlets, Scroll Kit provides flexibility and allows users to easily ...

RESOURCE: CNI Videos On Digital Humanities Centers & Collecting Social Media

Jan

21

2014

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released videos of presentations from its Fall 2013 meeting, including: Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers, Joan Lippincott (CNI), Harriette Hemmasi (Brown University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University) Capturing the Ephemeral: Collecting Social Media and Supporting Twitter Research with Social Feed Manager, Daniel Chudnov, Bergis Jules, Daniel Kerchner and Laura ...