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POST: Text Capture and Optical Character Recognition 101

Jun

25

2015

Simon Tanner (King’s College London) offers an introduction to Text Capture and OCR in a recent blog post. Tanner outlines the various ways in which digital humanities textual datasets are created from physical artifacts, and the strengths and weaknesses of OCR, rekeying, handwriting recognition, and speech recognition as methods for creating them. This post is ...

RESOURCE: Modern Language Association CORE (Commons Open Repository Exchange)

Jun

25

2015

The Modern Language Association, along with Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), have announced the beta release of CORE, “a digital repository for MLA members to share and archive all forms of scholarly communication, from conference papers to syllabi, published articles to data sets.” CORE offers MLA members a persistent, ...

RESOURCE: Using Google Sheets with ESTC

Jun

25

2015

In a post from Owen Stephens (Open University), readers are provided with a step-by-step guide to using Google Sheets and the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) to generate direct links, Wing/Short Title Catalog (STC) numbers, and other information for titles in ESTC. Stephens manages the JISC-funded TELSTAR project at the Open University. Stephens builds on a post by Benjamin Armintor (Columbia ...

CFParticipation: Digital Public Library of America Seeks Educator Advisors

Jun

25

2015

The Digital Public Library of America has released a call for participants to join its Education Advisory Committee. As a result of a recent Whiting Foundation grant, the DPLA is looking for “a small group of enthusiastic humanities educators in grades 6-14” to build sets of primary resources, provide feedback on tools for students and teachers, and assist the ...

JOB: Digital Projects and Services Librarian, Temple University

Jun

25

2015

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Digital Library Initiatives, the Digital Projects and Services Librarian coordinates the implementation of various digital library projects and services, working collaboratively with the developers’ team, web designer, digitization team, external consultants and partners, and project stakeholders. The librarian acts as a coordinator and team lead for projects, ...

POST: So you want to be a Data Visualization Librarian?

Jun

11

2015

The latest “So What Do You Do?” feature from Hack Library School consists of interviews with four data visualization professionals in different roles at the University of Michigan: Marci Brandenburg, Justin Joque, Stephanie O’Malley, and Ted Hall. The contributors detail what drew them to work in data visualization, document their day-to-day practice, and provide advice ...

POST: Announcing the first subscription journal to flip to open access through the Open Library of Humanities

Jun

11

2015

The Journal Of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, a formerly subscription-access journal in publication since 2009, has become the first of its kind to adopt the Open Library of the Humanities open access model. According to journal editors Scott Thurston, Gareth Farmer, and Vicky Sparrow: This move to a fully open-access platform with the OLH is ...

RESOURCE: A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights

Jun

11

2015

The UCLA Digital Humanities program has released A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights outlining an approach to working with students on DH projects aligned with the values and principles upon which the program operates. Building on the 2011 DH Collaborators’ Bill of Rights, this statement specifically foregrounds the power differential among students and the faculty, ...

RESOURCE: Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice

Jun

11

2015

The University of Michigan’s digitalculturebooks has announced the publication of the seventh title in their Digital Humanities Series, Douglas Eyman’s Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. This title seeks to bring work from fields including composition and rhetoric, human computer interaction, media and new media studies, game studies, and others into a definition of digital rhetoric. ...

JOB: Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Humanities, Arizona State University

Jun

11

2015

From the job announcement: The School of Historical, Philosophical, & Religious Studies (SHPRS) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a full-time, benefits eligible, digital humanities Postdoctoral Fellow. Under guidance of the principal investigators for the SocialScribe project on annotation, history, and time-based media, the successful candidate will take on the following leadership roles ...

JOB: Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist (2 Year Pilot Position), Northeastern University

Jun

11

2015

From the job announcement: Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist […] will help mobilize and design Library services supporting statistics and information visualization activities across Northeastern University. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a cooperation between Elizabeth Anderson, Nickoal Eichmann, Franny Gaede, Leah Henrickson, and Jaqueline Woolcott (Editors-at-large for the week), Patrick Williams (Editor for the ...