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RECOMMENDED: The Joy of Topic Modeling

Jun

4

2013

Matt Burton, graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Information, provides an accessible introduction to topic modeling. Aimed at beginners (though useful for everyone), the article unpacks the meaning of the terms used in topic modeling, such as model, word, document, topic, tokenization and stemming. For example, At the start of any text ...

CFParticipation: Help With Technology Challenges at NYPL

May

15

2013

The New York Public Library is reimagining the “public” in its name and is calling on you to “help build new tools and services that have the potential to impact libraries everywhere”. The contest is open to all, so assemble your team of librarians and hackers, and create a project in one of the following ...

RESOURCE: Digital Preservation Tool Grid

May

15

2013

Preserving (Digital) Objects With Restricted Resources (POWRR) has created a useful grid that tracks 24 different features of over 45 digital preservation tools, ranging from the very basic (e.g. Dropbox) to powerful, full-service platforms (e.g. Portico). The information was culled from tool websites, contacting the tool developers directly, discussion boards, and some direct tool testing, ...

RESOURCE: Catalog Search Plugin for Omeka

May

15

2013

Lincoln Mullen, PhD candidate at Brandeis University, has created the Catalog Search plugin for Omeka, which builds upon Omeka’s Library of Congress Subject Heading plugin to search Archive Grid, the DPLA, Google Books, Google Scholar, the Hathi Trust, JSTOR, the Library of Congress, and WorldCat based on subject heading. See it in action at the ...

RESOURCE: CKAN

May

15

2013

The Open Knowledge Foundation has announced the release of CKAN, an open source data management system that provides tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. CKAN is intended for large and small data publishers, and will soon power data.gov, the U.S. government open data portal that will soon be seeing a spike in ...

RECOMMENDED: U.S. Open Data Policy

May

15

2013

On May 9, 2013, the U.S. government issued Executive Order 13642, declaring that “the default state of new and modernized Government information resources shall be open and machine readable.” The announcement coincided with a memorandum outlining the creation of an open data policy that requires government agencies “to collect or create information in a way ...

RECOMMENDED: #dhpoco Open Thread

May

15

2013

The Digital Humanities as a Historical “Refuge” From Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability? Sparked by David Golumbia’s recap of the “Dark Side of the Digital” conference (#c21dsd) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Postcolonial Digital Humanities posted an open thread on the issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability in DH. The thread has generated over 150 comments, providing ...

JOB: Fulbright Opportunities in Digital Humanities and Digital Culture

Apr

30

2013

Laurie Taylor writes: The most recent application solicitation for US Fulbright Scholar grant opportunities includes many wonderful opportunities including ones in digital culture and digital humanities. Applications for the 2014-2015 academic year are due by August 1, 2013. The Digital Culture opportunity is in Norway and the Digital Humanities opportunity is in Ireland, and these ...

JOB: Project Manager, MITH

Apr

30

2013

From the position description: The Project Manager will work with senior MITH staff to conceptualize, implement, and manage digital humanities research work in a collaborative, team-driven environment. The successful candidate will have experience developing and administering collaborative research projects and events; strong oral and written communications skills; experience writing for, and working with, academic and ...

POST: The Digital Public Library of America: Details, the Librarian Response and the Future

Apr

30

2013

Micah Vandegrift, Scholarly Communication Librarian at Florida State University Library, discusses the recently-launched Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and its implications for librarians and libraries in general, providing a helpful overview of the project and its aims and stakeholders. Vandegrift clarifies that “DPLA is not a public library, a content repository, or a threat ...

POST: Humanities Unbound: Careers & Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track

Apr

30

2013

Despite the amount of discussion that alternative academics, or alt-ac, has generated recently, much of it has been speculative or anecdotal. Now, Katina Rogers, Senior Research Specialist the University of Virginia’s Scholarly Communication Institute, discusses the findings of her research over the past year on alt-ac employees and employers. The study looked at “perceptions of ...