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POST: Genre, Gender, and Point of View

Sep

24

2013

In a new post, Ted Underwood discusses a paper he co-authored for the IEEE “big humanities” workshop that is now available on arXiv as a preprint. He also reviews some questions that arose after the paper was presented regarding the use of first-person narration and gender. According to Underwood, “The paper argues that the blurry mutability of genres is ...

POST: How to Get MODS Using the NYPL Digital Collections API

Sep

24

2013

Dot Porter has written a post sharing her experience working with the NYPL Digital Collections API . Porter explains her initial attempts, roadblocks, and solutions to batch-downloading MODS records for between 1500 and 2000 objects. (Hint: she was able to do it “with a Mac terminal and just a little bit of XSLT.”) dh+lib ReviewThis post was ...

POST: Digital Humanities at MLA 2014

Sep

24

2013

Mark Sample has once again helpfully compiled a list of “digitally inflected” sessions taking place at the 2014 convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), in Chicago. A few of interest to the library community: The Twenty-First-Century Library: Discovery Services versus Subject Specialists Meeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate Research Text-nology Idea Jam: ...

PROJECT: The History Education Pilot Takes Off

Sep

24

2013

The European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO) is collaborating on a project aimed at re-using the digitized cultural heritage resources of Europeana. The history education pilot will offer history educators easy-to-find and free-to-use educational resources (sources, learning activities and tools) that are designed to stimulate historical thinking, multiperspectivity and active learning. The focus of the ...

CFParticipation: Building an #AccessibleFuture

Sep

24

2013

Jen Guiliano and George H. Williams have announced a series of workshops addressing accessibility issues in digital technologies: Workshop 1 will be November 15-16, 2013 at Northeastern University, Boston, MA Workshop 2 will be March 28-29, 2014 at the University of Texas, Austin, TX Workshop 3 will be fall of 2014 at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, ...

POST: Research Data Sharing without Barriers…Get Involved?

Sep

24

2013

Rachel Bruce (JISC) introduces the Research Data Alliance (RDA) by summarizing the group’s first plenary meeting that took place in Washington, D.C. from September 16-18th, 2013. Some of the areas that the groups are tackling: metadata & a metadata standards directory; legal interoperability; data citation; a community capability model; persistent identifiers; practical policy; data foundation ...

RESOURCE: “Out of Cite, Out of Mind” Report on Data Citation

Sep

24

2013

“Out of Cite, Out of Mind,” a new report looking at issues surrounding data citation has been released by the US Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI). The report discusses the current state of data citation policies and practices, its supporting infrastructure, a set of ...

CFP: Digital Humanities 2014

Sep

3

2013

A call for proposals for Digital Humanities 2014, in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been issued in 11 languages. From the announcement: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. This includes but is not limited to: humanities research enabled through digital media, ...

POST: Creating Themes in Omeka 2.0

Sep

3

2013

Margaret Heller (Digital Services Librarian, Loyola University) has written a brief introduction to creating custom themes in Omeka 2.0 on the ACRL TechConnect blog. For libraries that already have Omeka installed, have access to the code, and have multiple groups requesting Omeka sites, creating a theme template can be a useful way to scale what your library ...

EVENT: 2013 NFAIS Annual Humanities Roundtable

Sep

3

2013

A meeting of the National Federation of Advanced Information Studies (NFAIS) Humanities Roundtable will take place in Chicago on September 30th. According to the organizers, this year’s event “offers a chance to learn from active leaders in the field about projects in the digital humanities, content enrichment and linked data, assessing usage and user behavior ...

POST: Crowdsourcing Best Practices for Experimental Journals: Transparency

Sep

3

2013

Drawing on her recent experience working with the Journal of Digital Humanities, Adeline Koh (Assistant Professor of Literature, Stockton College) has invited input on best practices for increasing transparency in the publication process for academic journals. Starting with ideas offered by Roopika Risam and Scott Weingart, Koh seeks to develop practices that take into consideration ...