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RESOURCE: Inclusive DH2016

Jun

30

2016

In “Inclusive DH2016: Papers and posters that address gender, race, sexuality, class, and cross cultural language issues,” Amy Earhart (Texas A&M) provides a list of papers, workshops, and sessions at the upcoming Digital Humanities 2016 Conference (Kraków, 11-16 July) that specifically mention issues of diversity and inclusion. The list includes a two-part session on diversity: ...

RESOURCE: The Sourcecaster

Jun

30

2016

Thomas Padilla (University of California, Santa Barbara) and James Baker (University of Sussex) recently launched the sourcecaster, a tool that “helps you use the command line to work through common challenges that come up when working with digital primary sources.” Padilla has written a brief post to explain the project, which is based on ffmprovisr, ...

Building a dh+lib Community with a Global Outlook

Jun

22

2016

“How can we move beyond a monolingual DH, and promote exchange of works among linguistic communities? And how can we ensure this exchange is ongoing and sustainable?” dh+lib has long been interested in tackling these issues for our community of practice. The 2016 Digital Humanities conference will offer an opportunity to design and test an approach: attendees ...

ROUND-UP: Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities (and Responses)

May

5

2016

Daniel Allington (University of the West of England), Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University) and David Golumbia (Virginia Commonwealth University) published “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities” in the Los Angeles Review of Books, arguing that the digital humanities have “played a leading role in the corporatist restructuring of the humanities.” Positioning DH ...

RECOMMENDED: Everywhere, Every When

May

5

2016

Bethany Nowviskie (Digital Library Federation) has shared the text of a talk given at Columbia University’s Insuetude symposium, which brought together scholars in archaeology and media archaeology to examine how the past is “made present both in and through its traces.” Among her comments in “Everywhere, Every When,” Nowviskie asks, “What would it mean to ...

RESOURCE: Digitizing Books, Obscuring Women’s Work: Google Books, Librarians, and Ideologies of Access

May

5

2016

The latest issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology includes an article by Anna Lauren Hoffman (University of California, Berkeley) and Raina Bloom (University of Wisconsin, Madison) that examines the Google Books project “using the gendered history of librarianship” as a critical lens. The full abstract is reproduced below. Hoffman, Lauren, ...

RESOURCE: Fifty Shades of Open

May

5

2016

The newest issue of First Monday includes an article by Jeffrey Pomerantz (EDUCAUSE) and Robin Peek (Simmons College) that attempts to disambiguate the various meanings of the word “open.” The brief introduction is reproduced below. Pomerantz, Jeffrey, and Robin Peek. “Fifty Shades of Open.” First Monday 21, no. 5 (2016). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i5.6360 Open source. Open ...

JOB: Digital Scholarly Publishing Librarian, University of Pennsylvania

May

5

2016

From the announcement: The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek a creative, collaborative and enthusiastic librarian to join the Digital Scholarship team as the Digital Scholarly Publishing Librarian. Under the leadership of the Digital Publishing and Repository Coordinator and in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship and Data Curation Librarian, the incumbent will manage the day-to-day operations ...

RECOMMENDED: Returning Women to the History of Digital History

Mar

10

2016

Sharon Leon (RRCHNM, George Mason University) has shared a draft of a forthcoming book chapter, “Beyond the Principal Investigator: Complicating ‘Great Man’ Narrative of Digital History.” The chapter investigates the origin stories of digital history and seeks to “… [recover] women’s contributions to the field … and question the conditions that have contributed to their erasure…” ...

POST: The New Wave of Review

Mar

10

2016

In “The New Wave of Review,” Cameron Blevins (Rutgers University) considers what he sees as an increase in digital history project reviews that appear in the discipline’s print scholarly journals. Blevins identifies three trends in the approach of these reviews: those that treat digital history projects primarily as public engagement (and not a scholarly contribution ...

PROJECT: The Book Biography Machine

Mar

10

2016

In “The Book Biography Machine at the Medieval Academy of America,” the authors of the metaLAB (at) Harvard blog discuss the development of The Book Biography Machine, an “interface that permits humanities scholars to map the diffusion of written works across geographic space and time in order to ask new questions about the history of ...