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CFP: Digital Preservation 2014

Feb

11

2014

The Library of Congress is accepting proposals for its Digital Preservation 2014 conference, to be held July 22-24 in the Washington, DC, area. Session types include panels or presentations, 5-minute lightning talks, demonstrations, and posters. To be considered, submit a proposal (up to 300 words) describing what you would like to present to ndiipp [at] ...

CFP: Digital Libraries 2014

Feb

11

2014

Proposals are being accepted for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), which will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) from September 8 – 12, 2014 in London, UK. Workshop, tutorial, and panel submissions due: March 2, 2014 Full ...

CFParticipation: Taxonomy of DH Research Activities and Objects

Feb

4

2014

Librarians! An invitation to comment and provide feedback on a draft “Taxonomy of DH Research Activities and Objects” has been extended until February 9, 2014. The taxonomy, which is available as a Google doc, will be used by digital humanities resources such as DH Commons, Bamboo DiRT (Digital Research Tools), and DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure ...

JOB: Director of Digital Humanities and Social Science Lab, MSU

Feb

4

2014

From the announcement: The Department of History at Michigan State University seeks a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). The successful candidate will have knowledge of digital research methods and tools; experience developing collaborative research projects; strong oral and written communications skills; expertise ...

POST: Paris Review Interviews and Wikipedia

Feb

4

2014

Ed Summers (Library of Congress) has written a brief post about playing with interviews from the Paris Review and Wikipedia articles, and his attempts to use JSON-LD and D3 for network visualization. His post is a great example of the way that a passing interest in something can be an entry into new technology skills. It also demonstrates ...

POST: Interface, Exhibition & Artwork: Geocities, Deleted City and the Future of Interfaces to Digital Collections

Feb

4

2014

Trevor Owens (Library of Congress) has written an intriguing post on The Signal that considers the future direction of interfaces to digital collections by examining the rescue of Geocities data by a group of digital preservationists known as the Archive Team. Owens explains: Through data dumps of full sets of raw data, cultural heritage organizations can consider embracing ...

Opportunity: Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents

Feb

4

2014

Applications are open for the Association of Documentary Editing’s 43rd Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (July 20-24, Louisville, KY). The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is an annual five-day workshop for individuals new to the field of historical documentary editing. With the needs of the participants as a guide, experienced documentary editors ...

JOB: Digital Archivist for Manuscript Collections at Ball State University Libraries

Feb

4

2014

From the announcement: Position Function: Engage in acquisition, processing, preservation, digitization, promotion, and use of the unit’s collections, programs, and services; contribute to the development, management, and promotion of the University Libraries’ digital initiatives and transformation to a predominately digital environment. Duties/Responsibilities: 1. Acquire, process, digitize, preserve, and promote use of Archives and Special Collections materials, including ...

PROJECT: Mapping Books: Charting Former Owners of Penn’s Codex Manuscripts

Jan

28

2014

Mitch Fraas shared his project leveraging library data “to visually display networks of provenance in our manuscript collection” at the University of Pennsylvania. Fraas offers insights on how he was able to transform MARC records into a visual map to learn more about previous owners of some of Penn’s manuscript collections and shares some of his future ...

RESOURCE: Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist

Jan

28

2014

The most recent issue of the Code4Lib Journal includes Anthony Cocciolo’s “Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist.” Cocciolo, an Assistant Professor at Pratt’s School of Information and Library Science, outlines the basics for learning Unix. He describes Unix as offering “high-quality tools for quickly transforming born-digital and digitized assets, such as resizing videos, creating ...

POST: On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack”

Jan

28

2014

Bethany Nowviskie has written a post outlining the history of the familiar digital humanities phrase, “more hack; less yack.” She provides essential context behind the much-debated term: In other words, isn’t “more hack; less yack” really just a strawman? I only find it being used in earnest beyond the academic DH community—and, when pressed, even ...