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POST: Questions to Ask When You Learn of Digitization Projects

Oct

8

2015

Sarah Werner highlights some of the thornier issues around access to digital collections in a recent blog post, “Questions to Ask When You Learn of Digitization Projects.” As news reports of increased access to historical materials make the rounds, Werner reminds us to interrogate the motives behind projects, noting the challenges of balancing the often ...

POST: Guidelines for Digital Dissertations in History

Oct

8

2015

Sharon Leon (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) has written a post discussing the genesis of the newly-released “Digital Dissertation Guidelines” for George Mason University’s History and Art History Department. Leon points to some of the materials that were consulted in developing the guidelines, though she ends on a cautionary note: [W]e still ...

EVENT: #transformDH Conference 2015 (Roundup)

Oct

8

2015

The first conference convened by the #tranformDH collective took place at the University of Maryland last weekend, October 2-3, 2015. A day of panels and video showcases embracing the group’s tagline, “Transformative Digital Humanities: Doing Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Disability, and Class in DH,” culminated in a keynote address by Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan) ...

PROJECT: RRCHNM to Build Software to Help Researchers Organize Digital Photographs

Oct

8

2015

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has announced a new project to develop open source software to help researchers organize digital photographs, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The tool, which will be called Tropy, is a response to the challenges of managing large collections of images ...

RESOURCE: Digital Repository of Ireland’s Repository Specifications

Oct

8

2015

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) has published the repository’s requirements specifications, containing the functional, legal, and business requirements for the project—from ingest to APIs to user interface and copyright. The repository links together and preserves both historical and contemporary data held by Irish institutions, providing a central internet access point and interactive multimedia tools. ...

JOB: Senior Researcher Fellowship, Swedish School of Library and Information Science (DiXiT Project))

Oct

8

2015

From the announcement (“Digital Scholarly Editing and Memory Institutions”: The study of this Experienced Researcher project aims to critically explore the range of measures and methods for establishing trustworthiness, quality parameters and authenticity of digital reproductions in libraries and archives, particularly by looking at cases where levels and measures are negotiated between such memory institutions ...

POST: Introducing Git-Lit

Sep

24

2015

Jonathan Reeve (Columbia University) has written a post, “Introducing Git-Lit,” inviting input on a project that turns digitized manuscripts from the British Library into GitHub repositories: Git-Lit aims to parse, version control, and post each work in the British Library’s corpus of digital texts. Parsing the texts will transform the machine-readable metadata into human-readable prefatory ...

RECOMMENDED: An Information Science Question in DH Feminism

Sep

17

2015

A new article from Tanya Clement (UT Austin) is included in a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (Vol 9, No 2 – now available as a preview) “Feminisms in Digital Humanities,” edited by Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University). “An Information Science Question in DH Feminism” considers how “feminist inquiry can help us articulate and better ...

CFParticipation: EADH Day 2015

Sep

17

2015

The European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH) will be holding a symposium on October 8, 2015 at UNED (Madrid) “to provide the principal annual focus for practitioners of Digital Humanities in Europe to network and discuss common challenges and opportunities.” The event will coincide with the Second International Conference of the Hispanic Digital Humanities Association, ...

RESOURCE: Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age

Sep

17

2015

Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) has drawn attention to a new resource from the Modern Language Association, “Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age: A White Paper on the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions.” Though intended as “a tool for thinking through a set of pressing questions for the MLA’s Committee ...

RESOURCE: Data Rights and Responsibilities: A Human Rights Perspective on Data Sharing

Sep

17

2015

The Digital Koans blog highlights a new article in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, “Data Rights and Responsibilities: A Human Rights Perspective on Data Sharing” (Theresa L. Harris and Jessica M. Wyndham) explores data sharing through a human rights lens, leading to the formation of “a different set of problems, priorities, ...