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RECOMMENDED: Identifying Early Modern Books: Challenges for Citation Practices in Book History and Early Modern Studies

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2017

Archive Journal has published an essay by Meaghan Brown (Folger Shakespeare Library), Paige Morgan (University of Miami), and Jessica Otis (Carnegie Mellon University), “Identifying Early Modern Books: Challenges for Citation Practices in Book History and Early Modern Studies.” The article considers the tools and methodologies of bibliometrics, offering insights into the study of citations to ...

POST: Playing at Orientation: Interview with the Designers of “The Parasite” at University of Chicago

Nov

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2017

For the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker blog, Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida) interviewed Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt, two of the creators (with Heidi Coleman [all University of Chicago]) of an alternate reality game,”The Parasite,” which was a part of undergraduate orientation at the University of Chicago this fall. The conversation details the collaborations and ...

EVENT: Recounting Evidence in African American Digital Studies

Nov

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2017

Columbia University Libraries’ Studio@Butler will host an afternoon workshop entitled “Recounting Evidence in African American Digital Studies (REAADS)” on January 6, 2018 to coincide with Modern Language Association’s Annual Conference. Scholars of African American experiences have long insisted that we shift perceptions about evidentiary privilege. Now, in tapping historical and contemporary humanities data, how do ...

JOB: University Archivist, George Washington University

Nov

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2017

From the announcement: The George Washington University Libraries & Academic Innovation (GWLAI) seeks nominations and applications for an innovative, collaborative, and service-oriented University Archivist. The University Archives serves as the official “institutional memory” of George Washington University, providing long term stewardship and central access to the collections that document GW’s history and the people who ...

JOB: Reference & Outreach Archivist, Northeastern University

Nov

30

2017

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Special Collections and University Archivist, the Reference and Outreach Archivist (ROA) manages all University Archives and Special Collections’ public and outreach services. The ROA manages the Archives’ reference services, including managing reading room staff and overseeing answering reference or research requests; plans and implements online and physical ...

RECOMMENDED: Computation in Conversation

Nov

16

2017

Shawn Averkamp (New York Public Library) gave a presentation, “Computation in Conversation,” at a Library of Congress event hosted by NDSR resident Charlotte Kostelic (@chuckkostelic). As part of the residency, the NDSR fellows each organize an educational event, and Averkamp discussed metadata enrichment of digital collections. From her slide notes: I want to talk today ...

POST: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech (NYTimes)

Nov

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2017

Cathy O’Neil (mathbabe.org) published an opinion piece in the New York Times suggesting that academia should play a larger and more responsible role in educating lawmakers and lobbyists on the problems with influential algorithms. She argues that the issue of limited engagement of algorithmic ethics in academia stems from limited infrastructure in addition to there being ...

RESOURCE: RDA Research Data Collections WG Recommendations

Nov

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2017

The RDA Research Data Collections Working Group has published and seeks comment on “Recommendations on Research Data Collections.” From the abstract: Recent efforts of the Research Data Alliance have established a conceptual model for the management of research data that promotes the use of digital objects, transcending the traditional notion of files and decoupling questions ...

RESOURCE: Digital History & Argument White Paper

Nov

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2017

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media published a white paper produced from the Arguing with Digital History Workshop earlier this fall. The paper was written collaboratively by workshop participants and edited by Stephen Robertson Lincoln Mullen (both at George Mason University). From the introduction: This white paper aims to help bridge the ...

CFP: Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives (NHPRC)

Nov

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2017

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) seeks preliminary grant proposals to support projects that enable public discovery and use to major historical records. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may: Digitize historical records collections, or related collections, held by a single ...

CFParticipation: NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Nov

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2017

The NEH Office of Digital Humanities has opened submissions for the 2018 Digital Humanities Advancement Grants. Digital Humanities Advancement Grants may involve: creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based methods, techniques, or infrastructure that contribute to the humanities; pursuing scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society, or explores the philosophical ...