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CFP: Help to Pick Panels for the 2014 South By Southwest Conference

Sep

3

2013

As Butch Lazorchak (Library of Congress) points out in a recent post on The Signal: SXSW has now become so popular that the jockeying for presentation slots now commences months before the conference. The process of choosing panels includes a crowd-sourced aspect called the Panelpicker that engages the public to vote on the panels they’d be more interested in ...

POST: How Did They Make That?

Sep

3

2013

Miriam Posner has crafted a useful introduction to some exemplary digital humanities projects, outlining the tools and technology used to create each and giving helpful pointers to resources for getting started with them. She writes: Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of ...

JOB: Digital Projects Specialist, UWM Libraries

Sep

3

2013

From the announcement: UWM Libraries seeks an energetic, knowledgeable, and technologically capable individual to serve as a Digital Projects Specialist. This position supports resource and digital collection development in the Library’s Digitization Department. The department has been building digital collections drawn from the Library’s unique collections in Archives, Special Collections and the American Geographical Society Library ...

RESOURCE: Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track

Aug

13

2013

The finished report and data from the Scholarly Communication Institute’s study on graduate education and career development is now available. “Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track” includes specific recommendations on how to better prepare graduate students for alt-ac jobs, including: Evaluate and modify required aspects of graduate-level curricula Rethink standard methods ...

POST: What IS on the Menu? More Work with NYPL’s Open Data, Part One

Aug

13

2013

Part of making the argument for open collections data is showing what can be done with it. Trevor Muñoz’s recent blog post, in which he plays with the NYPL’s open data from the “What’s on the Menu?” project, explains how he uses the collection data as a testbed for data curation work. As Muñoz states: ...

POST: What’s a Nice English Professor Like You Doing in a Place Like This: An Interview With Matthew Kirschenbaum

Aug

13

2013

Trevor Owens has posted a terrific interview with Matt Kirschenbaum (Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities). In it, they discuss his involvement in the digital archives and digital forensics communities, the hurdles that born digital materials create, BitCurator, and ...

OPPORTUNITY: Speaking in Code

Aug

13

2013

Applications are now being accepted for “Speaking in Code,” an NEH-funded symposium taking place November 4-5, 2013, at the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab. The event has been organized as an attempt to make explicit the tacit knowledge that is usually employed by software developers in the digital humanities. As the announcement explains: Over the ...

POST: From Trees to Webs: Uprooting Knowledge through Visualization

Aug

13

2013

Scott B. Weingart has posted a preprint [pdf] of “From Trees to Webs: Uprooting Knowledge through Visualization,” in which he discusses the shift from visualizing the classification of knowledge as hierarchical and linear (tree) to the modern conception of knowledge as rhizomatic and networked (web). In the blog post announcing the work, which also contains ...

CFP: Focus Issue on Digital Scholarship, International Journal of Digital Libraries

Jul

16

2013

A call for contributions has been made for a special issue of International Journal of Digital Libraries, edited by Steve Griffin and Stefan Gradmann. Submissions are due November 30, 2013, for a projected publication in September, 2014. From the announcement: This special issue will solicit high quality papers that demonstrate exceptional achievements in digital scholarship, including but ...

RECOMMENDED: “The Literary”: Digital Humanities Quarterly (Issue 2013 7.1)

Jul

16

2013

The latest issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly, edited by Lisa Swanstrom and Jessica Pressman, is devoted entirely to “The Literary,” and contains several articles of interest to the library and archives community. From the introduction to the issue: As the essays in this issue demonstrate, the conjunction of the literary and the digital humanities produce ...

RESOURCE: Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from Media You Can Read In-house

Jul

16

2013

OCLC has released the third report in the “Demystifying Born Digital” series: Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from Media You Can Read In-house [pdf]. Designed to be a practical guide for those beginning to work with born-digital content, the report: [C]ollects the assembled wisdom of experienced practitioners to help those with less ...