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RESOURCE: Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation: An NDSA Report

Dec

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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards (NDSA) and Practices Working Group have released “Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation: An NDSA Report,” a survey of 85 institutions with a mandate to preserve digital content. The questions focused on staffing and organization, and some of the key findings include: There is no dedicated digital preservation department in most ...

RESOURCE: A Million First Steps

Dec

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2013

The British Library (BL) has released over one million images from 17th, 18th, and 19th century books on Flickr. Equally important, the images and metadata have been released into the public domain. While the metadata is currently limited, BL plans to release a crowdsourcing application next year that will build on human-provided descriptions to facilitate ...

JOB: Strategic Programs Specialist, METRO

Dec

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2013

From the position description: The position’s main responsibility will be as day-to-day manager of METRO’s National Digital Stewardship Residency in New York (NDSR-NY) program, an expansion of the NDSR program launched by the Library of Congress and Institute of Museum and Library Services in 2012. The NDSR-NY program is a three-year, IMLS-funded initiative to build ...

JOBS: CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships

Dec

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2013

The Council on Library and Information Resources released its list of postdoctoral fellowships for 2014-2016. There are currently 25 fellowships available, which fall under three categories: Fellowships in Academic Libraries Fellowships in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences Fellowships in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies Applications are due December 26, 2013. dh+lib ...

RECOMMENDED: Looks Like the Internet: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Projects Succeed When They Look Like the Network

Dec

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2013

Last week Tom Scheinfeldt (University of Connecticut) gave a talk at the 2013 ACRL/NY Symposium, whose theme was “The Library as Knowledge Laboratory.” His talk, “Looks Like the Internet: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Projects Succeed When They Look Like the Network,” addresses what he sees as a worrisome trend that is moving digital heritage ...

POST: Big Data for Dead People: Digital Readings and the Conundrums of Positivism

Dec

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2013

Historian Tim Hitchcock has posted the text and images from his recent keynote at the CVCE (Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe) Conference on “Reading Historical Sources in the Digital Age,” which took place on December 5-6 in Luxembourg. The talk, “Big Data for Dead People: Digital Readings and the Conundrums of Positivism,” explores ...

POST: From Print to Digital: Reconfiguring Postcolonial Knowledge

Dec

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2013

Adeline Koh has posted the text of and slides from her talk at the recent HumLab workshop in Umeå, Sweden (“Sorting the Digital Humanities Out“). Koh frames the talk as a “provocation” to the field of postcolonial studies: “a discussion of some of the potential opportunities that digital forms of publication offer to postcolonial studies, ...

POST: Copyleft, IP Rights, and Digital Humanities Dissertations

Dec

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2013

Amanda Visconti has a new post on Literature Geek that asks readers, “Who holds the intellectual property (IP) rights to your digital dissertation?” Taking her own work on the Infinite Ulysses project as an example, Visconti considers the many elements and sources of a typical digital humanities dissertation, noting: I’d like to think that good ...

POST: A Working Definition of Digital Humanities

Dec

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2013

Scott Weingart has compiled a collection of statements from digital humanities scholars in an attempt to come to “A Working Definition of Digital Humanities.” Spurred by a conversation on Twitter, Weingart sought out recommendations for courses that an aspiring (undergraduate) digital humanist should take. Responses from Ted Underwood, Johanna Drucker, Melissa Terras, John Walsh, and ...

RESOURCE: 2013 LITA Forum Keynotes

Dec

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2013

Recordings from the 2013 Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Forum are now available via U-stream. The three keynote presentations are: Travis Good (Make Magazine), “Making Maker Libraries“ Providing resources for lifelong learning is taking on new meaning. Making is part of the mix. Tools are part of the mix. Project learning is part of ...

RESOURCE: Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

Dec

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2013

Ashgate Publishing Group has recently released Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader. Edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, and Edward Vanhoutte, the book includes contributions from Geoffrey Rockwell, John Unsworth, Jerome McGann, Willard McCarty, Julia Flanders, Chris Forster, Fred Gibbs, Bethany Nowviskie, and many others. The compilation includes essays and blog posts from the last 10 years, and ...