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CFP: Critical Data Studies

Jul

2

2015

The journal Big Data & Society has issued a call for proposals for a special themed issue on “Critical Data Studies,” to be guest edited by Andrew Iliadis (Purdue University) and Federica Russo (Universiteit van Amsterdam). Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique theoretical, ethical, and epistemological challenges ...

JOB: Digital Projects Manager, Montana Historical Society

Jul

2

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Manager (DPM) is responsible for the management of the Research Center’s digital assets and projects and acts as a resource for all MHS programs on digital asset and digital project management. The DPM ensures both the Research Center and the wider agency are managing digital assets and projects in ...

POST: Text Capture and Optical Character Recognition 101

Jun

25

2015

Simon Tanner (King’s College London) offers an introduction to Text Capture and OCR in a recent blog post. Tanner outlines the various ways in which digital humanities textual datasets are created from physical artifacts, and the strengths and weaknesses of OCR, rekeying, handwriting recognition, and speech recognition as methods for creating them. This post is ...

RESOURCE: Modern Language Association CORE (Commons Open Repository Exchange)

Jun

25

2015

The Modern Language Association, along with Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), have announced the beta release of CORE, “a digital repository for MLA members to share and archive all forms of scholarly communication, from conference papers to syllabi, published articles to data sets.” CORE offers MLA members a persistent, ...

RESOURCE: Using Google Sheets with ESTC

Jun

25

2015

In a post from Owen Stephens (Open University), readers are provided with a step-by-step guide to using Google Sheets and the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) to generate direct links, Wing/Short Title Catalog (STC) numbers, and other information for titles in ESTC. Stephens manages the JISC-funded TELSTAR project at the Open University. Stephens builds on a post by Benjamin Armintor (Columbia ...

CFParticipation: Digital Public Library of America Seeks Educator Advisors

Jun

25

2015

The Digital Public Library of America has released a call for participants to join its Education Advisory Committee. As a result of a recent Whiting Foundation grant, the DPLA is looking for “a small group of enthusiastic humanities educators in grades 6-14” to build sets of primary resources, provide feedback on tools for students and teachers, and assist the ...

JOB: Digital Projects and Services Librarian, Temple University

Jun

25

2015

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Digital Library Initiatives, the Digital Projects and Services Librarian coordinates the implementation of various digital library projects and services, working collaboratively with the developers’ team, web designer, digitization team, external consultants and partners, and project stakeholders. The librarian acts as a coordinator and team lead for projects, ...

RECOMMENDED: Stewarding Digital Humanities Work on the Web at MITH

Jun

18

2015

Trevor Muñoz (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) has written the first of what will become a summer series of posts documenting the preservation work that MITH has undertaken since its founding in 1999. “Stewarding Digital Humanities Work on the Web at MITH” introduces the institution’s guiding principles and details the considerations involved in ...

POST: Exploring Digital Humanities and Media History

Jun

18

2015

Lisa Spiro (Rice University) has written a post recapping her experience at the Arclight Symposium at Concordia University, an event which “brought together film and media historians with digital humanists to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of digital methods for media history.” In “Exploring Digital Humanities and Media History,” Spiro details the core principles, challenges, ...

POST: Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data

Jun

18

2015

What would the Statistical Atlas of the United States (first published in 1874) look like with current data? Nathan Yau (Flowing Data) has created a project doing just that, using the programming language, R. “Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data” I used similar styling, and had one main rule for ...

RESOURCE: Integrating Digital Epigraphies (Video)

Jun

18

2015

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has shared video of a presentation on a digital project for Greek epigraphy by Joshua D. Sosin (Duke University) given at the Spring 2015 meeting. The presentation, entitled “Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: More than Notes,” discusses the “Integrating Digital Epigraphies” project, which “involves building a set of services that align ...