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POST: There’s a New Whale in Town

Aug

11

2016

Hugh Cayless (Duke University) has written a post introducing CETEIcean, a new JavaScript library he developed with Raff Viglianti (MITH) to display unmodified TEI documents using HTML5: Instead of transforming TEI XML into HTML for rendering in a browser, it does a 1::1 conversion of the XML into HTML Custom Elements. In practice what that ...

POST: Critical Work: Archivists as Maintainers

Aug

11

2016

Hillel Arnold (Rockefeller Archive Center) has shared the text of his talk, “Critical Work: Archivists as Maintainers,” given at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) earlier this month. In it, Arnold considers archivists’ “invisibility problem” alongside recent work in maintenance theory to respond to “the imbalance of prestige, power and ...

RESOURCE: Planning a Digital Scholarship Center Report (CNI)

Aug

11

2016

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has posted Planning a Digital Scholarship Center 2016[pdf], the report of the May 2016 workshop by the same name organized by CNI and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Authored by Diane Goldenberg-Hart (CNI), the paper includes summaries of presentations by Alison Armstrong (The Ohio State University), Dale Askey ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, University of New Mexico

Aug

11

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Librarian will provide specialized reference, consulting and project development services to humanities students, faculty, and researchers at UNM. As the Libraries’ designated expert in emerging humanities research tools and methods, this position will collaborate with library and academic colleagues across campus and throughout New Mexico to develop and promote ...

JOB: Programmer Analyst, University of Alberta Digital Initiatives (2 positions)

Aug

11

2016

From the announcement: We are looking for two passionate and knowledgeable Programmer Analysts. As a member of the Digital Initiatives and Information Technology Teams, you will develop and implement applications and tools to support a growing range of digital asset management use cases, including: deposit, access, management, analysis and preservation. Digital material we frequently interact ...

RECOMMENDED: Searching for a Blazing World

Jun

30

2016

In “Searching for a Blazing World,” Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) reflects on her recent plenary address at the Rare Books and Manuscript Section (RBMS) annual conference and revisits the issue of digital access to special collections. In the talk, Werner questioned how and why libraries decide what to digitize, and discussed the difficulties of locating and ...

POST: Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb

Jun

30

2016

Stephanie Kingsley (American Historical Association) has written a post recapping “Saving the Web: The Ethics and Challenges of Preserving What’s on the Internet,” the one-day symposium held at John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress earlier this month. “Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb” is a detailed and thoroughly referenced summary of ...

CFParticipation: Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries

Jun

30

2016

Library Juice Press has issued a call for participation for Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries, edited by Melissa Morrone (Brooklyn Public Library). Morrone is seeking participants willing to be interviewed for the book, which intends to “bring out specific critiques of technology as well as more inspiring aspects of what’s ...

POSTS: DH in China

Jun

30

2016

The China Policy Institute blog (University of Nottingham) featured six articles on digital humanities in China from June 3-13, 2016. As Lik Huang Tsui writes in his post: University libraries will likely become important focal points for developing digital scholarship in China. Researchers from various humanistic disciplines are aware as well that the digital humanities ...

CFP: Slate’s Call for Historical Datasets

Jun

30

2016

Rebecca Onion (Slate) is “in search of historical data.” Inspired by the success of Slate‘s interactive graphic based on the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, Onion seeks datasets that can be used to create “history presented using the interactive power of the web.” If you, in your work as a historian or humanities scholar, have put ...

CFP: The Digital Teaching Edition

Jun

30

2016

Dr. Mary Balkun (Seton Hall University) and Dr. Diana Polley (Southern New Hampshire University) have issued a call for a proposed roundtable session at NeMLA 2017 on The Digital Teaching Edition: From the call: This roundtable will generate discussion about the future of the traditional teaching edition; the benefits, drawbacks, and challenges of creating a digital ...