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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 ...

POST: ADHO Announces New SIG, Libraries and Digital Humanities

Aug

6

2015

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has announced the formation of a new Special Interest Group, Libraries and Digital Humanities: ADHO’s Libraries and Digital Humanities SIG aims at fostering collaboration and communication among librarians and other scholars doing DH work, by showcasing the work of librarians engaged in DH projects, advocating for initiatives of interest and ...

POST: What is “extended” about Extended Collective Licensing?

Aug

6

2015

Kevin Smith (Duke University) has authored a post for the Duke University Libraries Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog on the US Copyright Office’s new proposals on orphan works and mass digitization. Smith breaks down the proposals, including how the “extended collective licensing” provision would work: Alongside this proposal for how to deter use of individual orphan ...

RESOURCE: Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship

Aug

6

2015

In the Library with the Lead Pipe recently published “Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship,” by Juleah Swanson (University of Colorado Boulder), Ione Damasco (University of Dayton), Isabel Gonzalez-Smith (University of Illinois, Chicago), Dracine Hodges (the Ohio State University), Todd Honma (Pitzer College), and Azusa Tanaka (University of Washington). ...

RESOURCE: Kludging: Web to TXT

Aug

6

2015

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has written a post addressing a central concern in text analysis projects: how do you get the data you want, and how to do you make it usable? … more experienced Digital Humanists often have programmatic means of getting data and transforming it in such a way that it suits their needs. These ...

JOB: Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies, Brown University

Aug

6

2015

From the announcement: Brown University Library seeks a dynamic, visionary leader for the role of Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies. This position provides strong leadership and strategic direction in the development, delivery, and integration of new and existing systems, technology services, and digital initiatives across the libraries. S/he supervises department heads for the following ...

JOB: Digital Collections Manager, State Library of North Carolina

Aug

6

2015

From the announcement: The State Library of North Carolina’s Government & Heritage Library (GHL) is looking for an experienced digital librarian who is passionate about digital preservation, committed to ensuring that digital government publications remain available to the public into the future, has innovative ideas, and has a strong customer service ethic. While this is ...

RECOMMENDED: The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms

Jul

16

2015

David Weinberger‘s Shorenstein Center fellowship paper, “The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms: The Twisty Path towards a Net Ecosystem That Makes News More Discoverable, Reusable, and Relevant,” was released this week. The paper details the open APIs developed by The Guardian, The New York Times, and NPR, and how the usage and ...

POST: Down the Rabbit Hole

Jul

16

2015

In “Down the Rabbit Hole,” Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) links his search for the source behind a map he’d seen in a tweet (and the resulting difficulties and dead-ends) to the work of the Viral Texts project. Weingart draws similarities between 19th century newspaper citations and (the failures of) modern-day citation practice online. A single snippet of ...

POST: Towards monocultural (digital) Humanities?

Jul

16

2015

Domenico Fiormonte (University of Roma Tre) has published a blog post on InfoLet, “Towards monocultural (digital) Humanities?” Fiormonte, partially in response to Gregory Crane’s (Tufts University) recent article, “The Big Humanities, National Identity and the Digital Humanities in Germany,” analyzes linguistic diversity in digital humanities research. English native speakers get a free ride, but the ...

RESOURCE: Research Data Curation Bibliography, Version 5

Jul

16

2015

Digital Scholarship (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) has released the fifth version of Research Data Curation Bibliography. The Research Data Curation Bibliography includes over 350 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. For broader coverage of the digital curation literature, see ...