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POST: Digitization Challenges – A Discussion in Progress

Mar

26

2015

Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC) gives an overview of challenges currently faced by libraries working to digitize collections, as reported in a series of discussions hosted by OCLC Research. These challenges, which will inform future work from OCLC Research, include: Metadata: Item-level description vs collection descriptions “…there is an inherent challenge in digitizing collections at the item or ...

JOB: Digital Archive Summer Fellowship, HistoryMakers

Mar

26

2015

From the description: The James A. Lindner Digital Archive Summer Fellow’s primary tasks will include the arrangement, description and preservation of The HistoryMakers Collection. The Fellow will help migrate digital footage, enter metadata into The HistoryMakers FileMaker Pro database, and process The HistoryMakers video oral history interviews, both analog and born-digital, as well as captioning ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Intern, JSTOR

Mar

26

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Intern (DH) will work the JSTOR Labs team to extend Understanding Shakespeare, its partnership project with the Folger Shakespeare Library. Understanding Shakespeare has shown a new way of connecting primary texts with the literature about them, and the DH Intern will play a pivotal role in making this resource ...

CFP: 21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians

Mar

19

2015

The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries is accepting applications for 21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians in July 2015. The institute “consists of a three-day residential experience for 20 mid-career librarians, followed by one year of online engagement and support. The instruction team includes four CLIR fellows, supported by University of Rochester ...

CFParticipation: Revising the Library of Congress’ Recommended Format Specifications

Mar

19

2015

Ted Westervelt (Library of Congress) has written a post about the Library of Congress’ new Recommended Format Specifications. These specifications provide resources for libraries and librarians about how to select content that has the greatest chance of long term preservation and access. It is not merely the Library of Congress which might benefit from something like ...

JOB: Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) Fellows, Amherst College

Mar

19

2015

From the announcement: The Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College, in its inaugural year, seeks three one-year full-time CHI Fellows from varied disciplines to explore the theme of “Mattering Lives.” Our theme resonates with urgent ongoing cultural and political conversations about the ways in which lives matter—that is, take on meaning and value—in differing ways. It also ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian, Georgia State University

Mar

19

2015

From the announcement: Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities. The Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian will be engaged in the exploration of new forms ...

POST: Making Story Games with Twine 2.0

Mar

19

2015

Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida) has written a post for ProfHacker about creating story games with Twine 2.0 . Salter warns long time Twine users that Twine 2.0 is not backwards compatible, but assures readers that the changes to 2.0 will welcome new users and broaden the community, especially as many of the changes to ...

POST: Novice Struggles and Expert Blindness

Mar

19

2015

Jennifer Grayburn (Scholars’ Lab) has written a post about her experiences coding in PHP. In “Novice struggles and expert blindness: How my discomfort with PHP will make me a better instructor,” Grayburn talks about recognizing the “expert blind spot” through her work with the lab: I wonder if we should perhaps make this discomfort a ...

POST: “A City That Never Sleeps?”-new data and analysis from “On Broadway” project

Mar

19

2015

Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, CUNY) wrote the first post in an upcoming series describing the interactive exhibition and web application On Broadway, which includes “660,000 Instagram photos shared along Broadway during six months in 2014; Twitter posts with images for the same period in 2014;over 8 million Foursquare check-ins, 2009-2014;22 million taxi pickups and drop-offs for al of ...

RESOURCE: Watermarking and OCR-ing Your Images

Mar

12

2015

Ammon Shepherd (University of Virginia) has shared the code and instructions for batch watermarking and OCR-ing images. During the course of archival research, Shepherd needed a way to extract text from images of book pages and to add watermarks indicating the source of an image. As a result, he created a script – both a ...