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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: New Versions of Omeka Plugins for Solr and Fedora

Apr

1

2014

The Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia has announced the release of two updates to its Omeka plugins, SolrSearch and FedoraConnector. Version 2.0 of the SolrSearch plugin integrates SolrSearch, a (fast) search engine that supports advanced features like hit highlighting and faceting. The SolrSearch plugin is advantageous over the existing Omeka search in a ...

CFP: The (Digital) Lives of Cities, Midwest MLA 2014

Apr

1

2014

The DH section of the Midwest Modern Language Association is accepting paper abstracts for its upcoming conference, to be held November 13-16, 2014, in Detroit, Michigan. Possible topics include: Historical approaches to mapping and visualization Absence, silence, and (in)visibility in maps Mapping difference—class, race, gender, and accessibility Critical visual literacies Remediations and reconceptualizations of space ...

JOB: Knowledge Transfer Manager, Royal Irish Academy

Apr

1

2014

From the position announcement: “The Academy is seeking applications to fill a 16 fixed term contract position as Knowledge Transfer Manager on the DAH programme. The successful candidate will join the DRI team and be responsible for developing and delivering outreach, educational and skills training events on behalf of the DRI/RIA for the DAH programme. The Knowledge Transfer manager will ...

POST: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Leadership, Technology, and Gender?

Mar

4

2014

Chris Bourg (Stanford University) has offered initial ideas for the LTG Summit, a 3-day gathering to discuss leadership, technology, and gender in libraries, which will be held March 19-21, 2014, in Austin, Texas. The summit will explore answers to the challenge question, “What can we do to combat gender inequality and sexism in library technology?” Bourg ...

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, ...

RECOMMENDED: Asking For It

Feb

11

2014

Last week, OCLC Research released the report “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” Written by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, the report is aimed at helping library administrators communicate with their deans and provosts about the library’s roles in digital humanities. Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia) offers a response that acknowledges the report’s value ...