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POST: Neotopology

Apr

29

2014

Elijah Meeks (Stanford University Libraries) has posted notes from his talk at the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium’s First Annual Conference, Networks in the Humanities (#txdhc). Among several topics, Meeks addresses the notion of scholarly “interlopers” with respect to the digital humanities: I think interloping, more than computational approaches or the digital broadly construed as the object of ...

POST: Digital History and the Death of Quant

Apr

8

2014

In a post on the British Library’s Digital Scholarship Blog, James Baker (Curator, Digital Research) poses the question, “What do historians need to do good digital research?” In his answer, Baker laments the lack of basic training in statistical and quantitative methods offered to historians in undergraduate programs: As someone who was trained during the ...

POST: The Dividends of Difference: Recognizing DH’s Diverse Family Tree/s

Apr

8

2014

Tom Scheinfeldt (University of Connecticut) has posted a recent talk, “The Dividends of Difference: Recognizing Digital Humanities’ Diverse Family Tree/s,” in which he advocates for a more nuanced genealogy of DH. Framed by his realization that minimizing differences in digital humanities “in the name of collegiality” can be problematic (nodding to #dhpoco for its important work ...

RESOURCE: Value & Impact of Data Curation & Sharing (JISC Report)

Apr

8

2014

Clifford Lynch (CNI) points to a new report from JISC (the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee) that summarizes key finding from recent studies on research data services. The Value and Impact of Data Curation and Sharing: A Synthesis of Three Recent Studies of UK Research Data Centres [pdf] (Neal Beagrie and John Houghton) draws on studies ...

CFP: DHCommons Journal

Apr

8

2014

DHCommons, a new journal from centerNet, seeks submissions for “mid-stage digital projects who wish peer review and feedback that will contribute to the project’s development,” to be included in its inaugural issue (late Fall 2014). The DHCommons journal aims to support digital humanities scholarship by providing peer review for mid-stage digital projects. DHCommons will make visible the important work that often ...

JOB: DPLA Metadata Coordinator

Apr

8

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Public Library of America is recruiting for a Metadata Coordinator to join our growing team. The Metadata Coordinator will be a member of the Content Team and will report to the Director for Content. The Metadata Coordinator: serves as DPLA’s metadata expert, responsible for DPLA MAP data model creation and ...

CFP: Practices in the Digital Humanities Book Series

Apr

8

2014

Proposals are now being accepted for “Practices in the Digital Humanities,” a new series of short, practice-based books on the digital humanities from digitalculturebooks, an imprint of Michigan Publishing. More about the series: This book series is focused on the practices of the digital humanities by providing best practices, models, case studies, and examples of how to ...

POST: Literary Texts and the Library in the Digital Age, or, How Library DH is Made

Mar

18

2014

Glen Worthey (Stanford University) has posted a written version of his talk from last year’s ALA Annual conference in Chicago, “Literary texts and the library in the digital age, or, How library DH is made.” As part of a panel on new roles for European and American Studies librarians in digital literary scholarship, Worthey touches ...

RESOURCE: Critical Approaches to Digital Humanities at VCU

Mar

18

2014

Fiona Barnett (HASTAC) has created a Storify from the recent “Critical Approaches to Digital Humanities” (#cadh) symposium at Virginia Commonwealth University. Featuring a keynote address by Tara McPherson (USC), the event aimed to provide “an opportunity for scholars and students to focus specifically on DH’s impact, both positive and negative, on the humanities.” The Storify also includes discussion ...

POST: The Red Herring of Big Data

Mar

18

2014

Brian Croxall (Emory University) has shared text and slides from an August 2013 talk entitled, “The Red Herring of Big Data,” in which he offers an engaging overview of the ways that digital humanities scholars can use digital technologies to go beyond pattern recognition and into humanities interpretation. Croxall reviews recent projects concerned with both ...

CFP: Bridging GLAM and Humanities through DH (JADH 2014)

Mar

18

2014

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities has issued a call for papers for its annual conference, JADH 2014, to take place September 19-21, 2014 in Ibaraki, Japan. This year’s conference theme is “Bridging GLAM and Humanities through Digital Humanities”: At JADH2014 we will be especially interested in hearing presentations that focus on these [digital] methodologies ...