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POST: Women’s History, and … Metadata?!

Apr

23

2013

Reflecting on the recent Women’s History in the Digital World conference, held March 22-23 at Bryn Mawr, Arden Kikland provides an overview of sessions attended and considers Laura Mandell‘s conference keynote, “Feminist Critique vs. Feminist Production in Digital Humanities.” Kirkland describes the reaction to Mandell’s discussion of the TEI’s coding for gender– 1 for male, 2 for ...

RESOURCE: First Folio Online

Apr

23

2013

In honor of Shakespeare’s birthday (today, April 23), Sarah Werner offers a roundup of high-resolution facsimiles of the First Folio available online. Writing on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s blog, The Collation,Werner reviews the eight digital copies available from various institutions and points readers to additional resources on the First Folio. This post was produced through ...

JOB: Project Assistant, Montana Digital Newspaper Project

Apr

23

2013

From the position description: The Project Assistant is primarily responsible for assisting in the digitization of historical newspapers. To a lesser extent, the Project Assistant will also support the digital conversion of other materials, such as books or manuscripts. This post was produced through a cooperation between Caro Pinto, Patrick Williams, and Amy Wickner (Editors-at-Large ...

JOB: Manager, Digital Scholarly Communication, Australian National University

Apr

23

2013

From the position description: The Manager, Digital Scholarly Communication is responsible for the ANU Digital Collections facility which provides a range of services to assist academic staff and postgraduate researchers to manage the dissemination of their research output (including publications, theses and conference papers) particularly through deposit in the open access repository. The position also ...

CFP: Global Women Wikipedia Write-In

Apr

23

2013

On ProfHacker, Adeline Koh issues a call for participation this Friday, April 26, 1-3PM EST, in the Global Women Wikipedia Write-In. From the call: Ever been disappointed by the level of Wikipedia coverage on the world outside of Europe and the United States? Consider joining in this Friday in the Global Women Wikipedia Write-in (#GWWI), ...

RECOMMENDED: A Matter of Scale

Apr

2

2013

Matthew L. Jockers and Julia Flanders have published the script and slides from their keynote address, “A Matter of Scale,” at the recent Boston-Area Days of DH 2013. Jockers describes how he and Flanders, tasked with staging “a debate on the matter of “scale” in digital humanities research” for their keynote, quickly found themselves on the ...

POST: Patchwork Libraries

Apr

2

2013

In a new post on his Sapping Attention blog, Ben Schmidt offers a visualization of the library sources of books included in Bookworm. Bookworm, a project that “explores new means of library data visualization,” takes books and metadata included in the Internet Archive’s Open Library as its source material. The visualization, beyond drawing attention to the number of books contributed ...

POST: Irreconcilable differences? Name authority control & humanities scholarship

Apr

2

2013

A jointly-written post from OCLC Research describes an area of potential overlap for librarians and humanities scholars: names. Writing on hanging together, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research program officer, and David Michelson, Assistant Professor of early Christianity at Vanderbilt and director of The Syriac Reference Portal, describe a collaboration between OCLC Research and Syriac studies scholars to ...

RESOURCE: Nature, The Future of Publishing

Apr

2

2013

Nature has dedicated a special issue of its weekly publication to exploring The Future of Publishing. The issue looks at OA publication models and arguments, features a Q&A with Robert Darnton, and highlights the role of libraries and information sciences in two articles: Richard Monastersky’s news feature, “Publishing frontiers: The library reboot,” considers the role of ...

RESOURCE: Open Monograph Press 1.0

Apr

2

2013

The Public Knowledge Project has announced the release of Open Monograph Press in 1.0. OMP is a free, open-source platform: “for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes, and scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication.” In developing OMP as a new module, PKP has also provided ...

OPPORTUNITIES: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Publications Liaison

Apr

2

2013

The ADHO invites applications for Publications Liaison, “a volunteer position to help increase the visibility of the association’s journals and other publications.” This would be a great opportunity for a librarian to get involved in a DH project. From the position description: ADHO publications are primarily owned by its constituent organizations; these publications include: LLC. ...