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JOB: Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Archives, GW

Feb

17

2014

From the announcement: The GW Libraries seeks nominations and applications for an Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Archives (AUL/SC&A). The person in this recently redefined position will lead a dynamic team in developing policies, strategies and innovative approaches to growing the collections and services that give the twenty-first century research library its identity. ...

PROJECT: Calling All Walt Whitman Fans

Feb

17

2014

The Chief Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, issued a call to assist The Walt Whitman Archive at the University of Nebraksa-Lincoln in discovering new Walt Whitman documents. In 2011, the Archive discovered 3,000 documents penned by the famous author during his years working as a clerk in the Office of the Attorney General, ...

TOOL: etcML: text classification tool

Feb

14

2014

Geoffrey Rockwell has written a post introducing etcML (Easy Text Classification Machine Learning) a new, freely available, text analysis tool developed at Stanford. The tool’s “primary mode of analysis is ‘classification,’ which you can think of as automatic categorization”: The tool allows you to pass a text (or a Twitter hashtag) to an existing classifier like the ...

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 ...

CFP: Book Chapter Proposals, Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists

Nov

19

2013

Editors Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb have put out a call for book chapter proposals for Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, with the Association of College & Research Libraries as the potential publisher. “Digital humanities is changing the way that humanities scholars research and teach, and libraries ...

CFParticipation: DH Curation Institute

Nov

18

2013

Applications are now being accepted for the third (and final) Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at Northeastern University, April 30-May 2, 2014. Visit the Institute Web site to complete an application by January 31, 2014. Workshops are limited to 20 participants, and applicants will be notified regarding acceptance in mid-February. As the ...