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POST: Johannes Factotum and the Ends of Expertise

Nov

6

2014

Bethany Nowviskie has shared the text of her keynote address at the 2014 Digital Library Federation Forum, in which she examines the changing nature of expertise in the academy. Nowviskie lauds the DLF community and the Forum in particular for bringing together a unique mix of experts and generalists: The ability (actually, I think, the ...

POST: The Internet Arcade and the Textures of Emulation

Nov

6

2014

Matthew Battles (metaLAB at Harvard) has written a post reflecting on his recent visit to the Internet Archive, where he was given a peek into Jason Scott‘s work archiving computer software and arcade games after giving a talk at the Books in Browsers conference. It’s technologically both antic and elegant: Jason’s system has parsed and ...

RESOURCE: Library Collections as Humanities Data

Nov

6

2014

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has shared a postprint pdf of a paper co-authored with Devin Higgins that “argues for thinking about library collections as Humanities data.” As Padilla writes in a blog post introducing their work: I think its important that we as librarians study and argue about our collections in a manner befitting ...

CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2015

Nov

6

2014

Proposals are now being accepted for the Personal Digital Archiving 2015 conference, to take place April 24-26, 2015, in New York City. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program, the NYU Libraries, and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the conference “will have two full days of presentations focused on a set ...

Digital Libraries + Hybridity: An Interview with Clifford Wulfman

Oct

29

2014

Clifford Wulfman is the Coordinator of Library Digital Initiatives at the Firestone Library at Princeton University and consultant to Princeton’s new Center for Digital Humanities. He has been involved with the Perseus Digital Library, the Modernist Journals Project, and is currently Director of the Blue Mountain Project, an NEH-funded project to digitize European and North ...

POST: Linking Lived Experiences of WWI Through Battalions?

Oct

16

2014

Mia Ridge (Trinity College Dublin) has written an update on the project, “In their own words: linking lived experiences of the First World War,” as part of her CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship. In addition to discussing the potential of crowdsourcing transcriptions, Ridge post helps to “figure out the issues researchers face and the variations in ...

RESOURCE: Día de las Humanidades Digitales 2014

Oct

16

2014

October 15th marked the second annual “Día de las Humanidades Digitales” (Día HD), a Day of DH for digital humanists who work primarily in Spanish or Portuguese. The event, which consists of individuals blogging about their workday, aims to draw attention to digital humanities work in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. Ernesto ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities — Where are the Libraries?

Oct

16

2014

The 12th International Bibliotheca Baltica Symposium, which took place October 9-10, 2014, at Södertörn University in Stockholm, focused on “Digital Humanities — Where Are the Libraries?” The symposium included presentations from institutions from a variety of countries across Europe, including Latvia, Sweden, Poland, Finland, Germany, and Russia. Jussi-Pekka Hakkarainen (National Library of Finland) posted slides from ...

RESOURCE: HILT Trip Report

Oct

16

2014

Archivist Eira Tansey (University of Cincinnati) has written a detailed trip report outlining her experience in the Digital Forensics course at the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Institute (HILT), taught by Kam Woods (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Porter Olsen (University of Maryland) of BitCurator. In addition to a day-by-day recap of the course and the lectures, ...

OPPORTUNITY: The Digital Antiquarian Conference + Workshop (AAS)

Oct

16

2014

The American Antiquarian Society has announced “The Digital Antiquarian,” a 2-day conference and 5-day workshop taking place May 29-June 5, 2015, in Worcester, MA. The two-day conference will open up questions related to digitization, cataloguing, and research design, exploring applications of digital tools and methods to diverse library materials, and identifying needs and opportunities in ...

CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference

Oct

16

2014

Proposals are now being accepted for the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference which will take place on July 22-24, 2015, at the University of Pennsylvania. Presentations may take the form of interactive presentations, short papers, project demos, or panel discussions. We welcome proposals from emerging and veteran students, teachers, and scholars. Proposals of 200-300 words are ...