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POST: Police-Worn Body Camera Footage: A Public Record?

Oct

20

2016

In a two–part series on the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Issues and Advocacy Roundtable blog, Rachel Mattson (Archives of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club) addresses a contemporary debate surrounding police-worn body camera footage. Body-worn cameras (BWCs for short) began raising a range of legal and archival questions that municipalities and police departments were woefully ...

RESOURCE: The Printing Press as Metaphor

Oct

20

2016

Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a preview version of Elyse Graham’s (SUNY Stony Brook) article “The Printing Press as Metaphor,” which examines the popular use of historical technologies of print as metaphors for making sense of our changing media and information landscape. Situating an examination of this rhetoric within a larger discussion of the market ...

RESOURCE: Lexington’s Early Marriage Indexes of African Americans Available Online

Oct

20

2016

The University of Kentucky News points to the release of a new digital collection developed in partnership with the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center and the Fayette County Clerk’s Office. The project provides “access to the Colored Marriage Indexes dated 1866-1882 and 1958-1968. The purpose of the project is to provide researchers with ...

CFP: 17th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

Oct

20

2016

The Association for Computing Machinery / IEEE Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has issued a call for papers for their 2017 conference, to be held June 19-23, 2017, in Toronto. From the call: The field of digital libraries has undergone dramatic changes as digital collections grow in scale and diversity. These changes call ...

JOB: Process Manager, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, KU Leuven University Library

Oct

20

2016

From the announcement: As process manager ‘Digital Scholarship in the Humanities’, you are dedicated to supporting faculty and student use of digital information and computer-based methods to achieve research, teaching and learning goals. You are responsible for the support of digital projects initiated by researchers and teaching staff in the Arts and Humanities. You collaborate ...

JOB: Digital Curation Librarian, Fort Hays State University

Oct

20

2016

From the announcement: Job Description: Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University (FHSU) seeks a creative and service-oriented colleague to build, curate, and promote the library’s unique digital collections and to partner with others across campus in a variety of academic digital initiatives. The Digital Curation Librarian will work closely with colleagues from the library, the ...

JOB: Assistant Manager for Audio and Moving Image Preservation at NYPL

Oct

20

2016

From the announcement: The New York Public Library audio and moving image preservation program safeguards the audio, video, and film research collection holdings through physical treatment and reformatting. In response to a recent Mellon-funded assessment, the Library is moving forward with an ambitious plan to digitize and preserve its critically at-risk media holdings over the ...

POST: Libraries, Technology, and Social Justice

Oct

13

2016

Chris Bourg (MIT Libraries) has posted the text of her Access 2016 talk, “Libraries, Technology, and Social Justice,” in which she takes on the notion of library neutrality and imagines what a social justice agenda would look like in academic libraries. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Safiya Noble and Sapna Cheryan as ...

OPPORTUNITY: Libraries and Museums Advance the Digital Humanities

Oct

13

2016

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced that it will now jointly fund Digital Humanities Advancement Grant projects with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The field of digital humanities is increasingly moving into the domains of library and museum professionals, such as curation, preservation, information architecture, metadata, and sustainability. We ...

PROJECT: Mediate: Identifying the Real Bestsellers of the 18th Century

Oct

13

2016

Eleanor Shevlin (West Chester University of Pennsylvania) has written a post for the Early Modern Online Bibliography (EMOB) blog introducing Mediate, a project based at Radboud University and led by Prof. Alicia C. Montoya. As Shevlin explains, “While prior lenses for studying the Enlightenment have focused on either the canonical, history-of-ideas texts or the forbidden, ...

RESOURCE: State of the Art Report on Open Access Publishing of Research Data in the Humanities

Oct

13

2016

A recent report, released as part of DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale (HAS) project, provides an overview of research data publishing in the humanities. The report, as a post from the project site explains, is the “first step in the design process of an Open Humanities Data Platform,” and is one of the eight “work packages” ...