Bethany Nowviskie (CLIR) has shared a “blended” version of two recent talks in her post, “On Capacity and Care.” Addressing the dual topics of sustainable digital humanities and the future of graduate education, Nowviskie frames her discussion using the notion of “care”: I offer care as a hard-nosed survival strategy, and as a strategy to ...

Sarah Werner highlights some of the thornier issues around access to digital collections in a recent blog post, “Questions to Ask When You Learn of Digitization Projects.” As news reports of increased access to historical materials make the rounds, Werner reminds us to interrogate the motives behind projects, noting the challenges of balancing the often ...

Sharon Leon (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) has written a post discussing the genesis of the newly-released “Digital Dissertation Guidelines” for George Mason University’s History and Art History Department. Leon points to some of the materials that were consulted in developing the guidelines, though she ends on a cautionary note: [W]e still ...

Jaye Weatherburn (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) authored a post summing up the Whyte Memorial lecture delivered by Ross Harvey (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia), “Keeping, Forgetting, and Misreading Digital Material: Libraries Learning from Archives and Recordkeeping Practice.” Harvey “extolled the benefits of archival principles, and called for them to be used for managing digital materials.” ...