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PROJECT: Selfiecity

Mar

10

2014

Selfiecity “investigates selfies using a mix of theoretic, artistic and quantitative methods.” The project, led by Lev Manovich, Mortiz Stefaner and several others, is a collection 3,200 “selfies” collected from five cities around the globe that critically examine a particular type of new media to reveal demographic and other patterns. The site includes an interactive ...

JOB: Lead Developer, MITH

Mar

9

2014

From the announcement: “MITH is seeking a Lead Developer to work on research-intensive projects in the digital humanities. The Lead Developer will work with other senior MITH staff to conceptualize, implement, and develop software for research work in a collaborative, team-driven environment. This role requires creative leadership and commitment to research and development leading to novel ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Illinois Institute of Technology Library

Mar

9

2014

From the announcement: “The Digital Initiatives Librarian is a member of the Paul V. Galvin Library professional staff who, under the direction of the Head of Assessment, Planning and Scholarly Communications, provides leadership for digital collections and special collections services. The Digital Initiatives Librarian will also manage select digital resources at Galvin Library including the ...

POST: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Leadership, Technology, and Gender?

Mar

4

2014

Chris Bourg (Stanford University) has offered initial ideas for the LTG Summit, a 3-day gathering to discuss leadership, technology, and gender in libraries, which will be held March 19-21, 2014, in Austin, Texas. The summit will explore answers to the challenge question, “What can we do to combat gender inequality and sexism in library technology?” Bourg ...

POST: Biases and Errors In Our Tools: How Do You Cope? Reflections of a Newcomer to Textual Analysis

Mar

4

2014

Jennifer Vinopal (New York University) asks the question, “how do you cope with the possibility that the tools you are using may be biased (or error prone) and that the “black box” is sending you down the wrong research highway?” Vinopal relates her experience using a text analysis tool that revealed the term “e-books” was ...

RESOURCE: A Draft Style Guide for Digital Collection Hypertexts

Mar

4

2014

Trevor Owens (Library of Congress) offers a draft style guide for online collections that will be particularly useful for those responsible for creating and curating digital content (such as exhibits built in Omeka). Owens seeks to “take the ideas of exhibition and print publications that make extensive use of deep captions and figure out how ...

RESOURCE: Beyond Gatekeepers of Knowledge: Scholarly Communication Practices of Academic Librarians and Archivists at ARL Institutions

Mar

4

2014

A recent article in College & Research Libraries by Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Andrew Tsou, Sara Naslund, Alexandra Hauser, Melissa Brandon, Danielle Winter, Cody Behles and S. Craig Finlay examines the role of librarians and archivists as scholars. The article has implications for librarians involved in digital projects, particularly those who assert that their contribution to DH ...

RESOURCE: Web Archives for Historians

Mar

4

2014

Web Archives for Historians is building “a collective, crowd-sourced bibliography to bring historians together who are using, thinking about using, or getting interested in web archives.” Contributions to the bibliography may be blog posts or articles or anything in between, and should cover one of the following: (a) reflections on the need for web preservation, ...

POST: What Week Is It? Fair Use Week of Course!

Feb

25

2014

Kevin Smith (Scholarly Communications Officer, Duke University) introduces Fair Use week, taking place Feb. 24-28, and organized by the Harvard Library’s Office for Scholarly Communication. Smith contextualizes this celebration, noting that fair use: is today one of the most important underpinnings of scholarship. We argue about its scope sometimes, but we rely on it everyday. The ...

POST: Analyzing Historical History Dissertations

Feb

25

2014

Lincoln A. Mullen (Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University) has written a series of posts analyzing historical history dissertations using data from the Proquest Dissertations and Theses Database. Mullen was able to obtain two “dumps” from the database: From the MARC records that ProQuest gave me, I’ve been able to extract a number of fields, only some ...

RESOURCE: Combining Narrative Text, Information Visualization, and Computational Models [VIDEO]

Feb

25

2014

Elijah Meeks (Digital Humanities Specialist, Stanford University Library) recently gave a talk on “Combining Narrative, Model, and Information Visualization” at a joint meetup of the Bay Area D3 User Group and Data Visualization Group. Video of the talk, which also introduces some of the digital humanities projects at Stanford, such as Kindred Britain, is now online. ...