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POST: Rehabbing DH101

Oct

22

2015

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has published a post on redesigning the Introduction to Digital Humanities course she teaches. Posner notes that how and why she reworked the syllabus of the course might be valuable to others and shares her rationale: My version of DH101 is about developing a humanistic attitude toward data. To me, that means the ability ...

POST: A Critical Take on OER Practices: Interrogating Commercialization, Colonialism, and Content

Oct

22

2015

In the Library with the Lead Pipe has published “A Critical Take on OER Practices: Interrogating Commercialization, Colonialism, and Content” by Sarah Crissinger (Davidson College). Crissinger’s article critiques Open Educational Resources (OER) using an Open Access lens, and suggests how information professionals can engage with OER in a more thoughtful way. Opening her article, Crissinger ...

RESOURCE: DHCommons Journal, Issue 1

Oct

22

2015

This week marked the release of the first issue of the DHCommons journal, “a new kind of publication for digital humanities projects.” DHCommons seeks to provide robust peer review of projects that are still in process, in the model of NINES and 18th Connect. The work of the journal builds upon what DHCommons, an initiative ...

RESOURCE: Building Histories of the National Mall: A Guide to Creating a Digital Public History Project

Oct

22

2015

Sheila A. Brennan (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) has published a post on her blog, Lot 49, discussing “Building Histories of the National Mall: A Guide to Creating a Digital Public History Project“. The Guide details the creation of the Histories of the National Mall project and website. As Brennan explains: For ...

RESOURCE: Online Tool Aims to Help Researchers Sift Through 15 Centuries of Data

Oct

22

2015

North Carolina State University has announced the unveiling of a new tool, Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application, or BigDIVA. BigDIVA, created by digital humanities scholars from NC State and Texas A&M University, will allow users to search thousands of scholarly articles and archival items spanning from 450 A.D. to the 20th century, using a visual ...

CFP: Special Issue of DHQ: Spanish-Language Digital Humanities

Oct

22

2015

Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a call for proposals for a special issue of the journal, highlighting digital humanities work in Spanish. This issue will be “the first of several planned for DHQ in different languages or regional traditions.” Submissions will be anonymously peer reviewed, with editors looking for: The scholarly contribution of the article. ...

JOB: Program Manager – Latin American Studies Digital Scholarship Coordinator, University of Texas at Austin

Oct

22

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Coordinator at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections partners with faculty, librarians and staff to promote the use of digital technologies to enhance teaching, learning and research at UT Austin, with a focus on Latin American Studies. Essential Functions: Digital Strategy and Technology: Provide leadership for the incorporation ...

JOB: Digital Accessioning Archivist, Yale University Library

Oct

22

2015

From the announcement: The Yale University Library (YUL) is seeking a Digital Accessioning Archivist for Yale Special Collections to fill a two-year position. Under the supervision of the Digital Archivist in the Manuscript Unit of the Beinecke Library, and in collaboration with the Born Digital Working Group, the position will help establish a centralized born-digital ...

dh+lib Meetup at SAA 2015

Aug

15

2015

Are you attending the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting and want to meet other archivists engaging in digital humanities and scholarship? Join dh+lib for an informal gathering in the repurposed 1908 Cleveland Trust Rotunda Building, at Heinen’s Grocery Store’s The Lounge on Friday, August 21, 6:15-8:00pm. Review Editor Caitlin Christian-Lamb will be there as the ...

RECOMMENDED: How to destroy special collections with social media

Aug

6

2015

Sarah Werner has posted the slides, notes, and audio from her recent talk at Rare Book School, “How to Destroy Special Collections with Social Media in 3 Easy Steps: A Guide for Researchers and Librarians.” After pointing out that many special collections are engaging in outreach via social media, Werner lays out, step-by-step, how to ...

RECOMMENDED: What’s Counted Counts

Aug

6

2015

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) wrote a blog post, reflecting on his research on gender inequality in academia, particularly for his ongoing blog series on acceptances to the annual Digital Humanities conference. I’ll cut to the chase. My well-intentioned attempts at battling inequality suffer their own sort of bias: by focusing on measurements of inequality, I bias that ...