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POST: Interface, Exhibition & Artwork: Geocities, Deleted City and the Future of Interfaces to Digital Collections

Feb

4

2014

Trevor Owens (Library of Congress) has written an intriguing post on The Signal that considers the future direction of interfaces to digital collections by examining the rescue of Geocities data by a group of digital preservationists known as the Archive Team. Owens explains: Through data dumps of full sets of raw data, cultural heritage organizations can consider embracing ...

Opportunity: Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents

Feb

4

2014

Applications are open for the Association of Documentary Editing’s 43rd Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (July 20-24, Louisville, KY). The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is an annual five-day workshop for individuals new to the field of historical documentary editing. With the needs of the participants as a guide, experienced documentary editors ...

JOB: Digital Archivist for Manuscript Collections at Ball State University Libraries

Feb

4

2014

From the announcement: Position Function: Engage in acquisition, processing, preservation, digitization, promotion, and use of the unit’s collections, programs, and services; contribute to the development, management, and promotion of the University Libraries’ digital initiatives and transformation to a predominately digital environment. Duties/Responsibilities: 1. Acquire, process, digitize, preserve, and promote use of Archives and Special Collections materials, including ...

RECOMMENDED: Looks Like the Internet: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Projects Succeed When They Look Like the Network

Dec

10

2013

Last week Tom Scheinfeldt (University of Connecticut) gave a talk at the 2013 ACRL/NY Symposium, whose theme was “The Library as Knowledge Laboratory.” His talk, “Looks Like the Internet: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Projects Succeed When They Look Like the Network,” addresses what he sees as a worrisome trend that is moving digital heritage ...

POST: Big Data for Dead People: Digital Readings and the Conundrums of Positivism

Dec

10

2013

Historian Tim Hitchcock has posted the text and images from his recent keynote at the CVCE (Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe) Conference on “Reading Historical Sources in the Digital Age,” which took place on December 5-6 in Luxembourg. The talk, “Big Data for Dead People: Digital Readings and the Conundrums of Positivism,” explores ...

POST: From Print to Digital: Reconfiguring Postcolonial Knowledge

Dec

10

2013

Adeline Koh has posted the text of and slides from her talk at the recent HumLab workshop in Umeå, Sweden (“Sorting the Digital Humanities Out“). Koh frames the talk as a “provocation” to the field of postcolonial studies: “a discussion of some of the potential opportunities that digital forms of publication offer to postcolonial studies, ...

POST: Copyleft, IP Rights, and Digital Humanities Dissertations

Dec

10

2013

Amanda Visconti has a new post on Literature Geek that asks readers, “Who holds the intellectual property (IP) rights to your digital dissertation?” Taking her own work on the Infinite Ulysses project as an example, Visconti considers the many elements and sources of a typical digital humanities dissertation, noting: I’d like to think that good ...

POST: A Working Definition of Digital Humanities

Dec

10

2013

Scott Weingart has compiled a collection of statements from digital humanities scholars in an attempt to come to “A Working Definition of Digital Humanities.” Spurred by a conversation on Twitter, Weingart sought out recommendations for courses that an aspiring (undergraduate) digital humanist should take. Responses from Ted Underwood, Johanna Drucker, Melissa Terras, John Walsh, and ...

RESOURCE: 2013 LITA Forum Keynotes

Dec

10

2013

Recordings from the 2013 Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Forum are now available via U-stream. The three keynote presentations are: Travis Good (Make Magazine), “Making Maker Libraries“ Providing resources for lifelong learning is taking on new meaning. Making is part of the mix. Tools are part of the mix. Project learning is part of ...

RESOURCE: Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

Dec

10

2013

Ashgate Publishing Group has recently released Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader. Edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, and Edward Vanhoutte, the book includes contributions from Geoffrey Rockwell, John Unsworth, Jerome McGann, Willard McCarty, Julia Flanders, Chris Forster, Fred Gibbs, Bethany Nowviskie, and many others. The compilation includes essays and blog posts from the last 10 years, and ...

CFP: Publishing Text for a Digital Age

Dec

10

2013

Tufts University has issued a call for contributions to a two-day workshop on publishing textual data, to take place on March 27-30, 2014. From the announcement: As a follow-on to Working with Text in a Digital Age, an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Digital Humanities and in collaboration with the Open Philology Project at the ...