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POST: Digital Humanities at MLA 2014

Sep

24

2013

Mark Sample has once again helpfully compiled a list of “digitally inflected” sessions taking place at the 2014 convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), in Chicago. A few of interest to the library community: The Twenty-First-Century Library: Discovery Services versus Subject Specialists Meeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate Research Text-nology Idea Jam: ...

PROJECT: The History Education Pilot Takes Off

Sep

24

2013

The European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO) is collaborating on a project aimed at re-using the digitized cultural heritage resources of Europeana. The history education pilot will offer history educators easy-to-find and free-to-use educational resources (sources, learning activities and tools) that are designed to stimulate historical thinking, multiperspectivity and active learning. The focus of the ...

CFParticipation: Building an #AccessibleFuture

Sep

24

2013

Jen Guiliano and George H. Williams have announced a series of workshops addressing accessibility issues in digital technologies: Workshop 1 will be November 15-16, 2013 at Northeastern University, Boston, MA Workshop 2 will be March 28-29, 2014 at the University of Texas, Austin, TX Workshop 3 will be fall of 2014 at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, ...

POST: Research Data Sharing without Barriers…Get Involved?

Sep

24

2013

Rachel Bruce (JISC) introduces the Research Data Alliance (RDA) by summarizing the group’s first plenary meeting that took place in Washington, D.C. from September 16-18th, 2013. Some of the areas that the groups are tackling: metadata & a metadata standards directory; legal interoperability; data citation; a community capability model; persistent identifiers; practical policy; data foundation ...

RESOURCE: “Out of Cite, Out of Mind” Report on Data Citation

Sep

24

2013

“Out of Cite, Out of Mind,” a new report looking at issues surrounding data citation has been released by the US Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI). The report discusses the current state of data citation policies and practices, its supporting infrastructure, a set of ...

RECOMMENDED: Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities

Sep

17

2013

Stephen Ramsay, Alan Liu, Alex Reid and others have recently engaged in a fruitful conversation about the role of cultural criticism in the digital humanities. Ramsay begins the exchange with a post revisiting Liu’s 2011 article in Debates in the Digital Humanities, “Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” Quoting Liu, “How the digital ...

CFProposals: Museums and the Web 2014

Sep

17

2013

The Museums and the Web 2014 conference, to be held April 2-5, 2014 in Baltimore, is accepting proposals for conference sessions. Proposals may fit one of several types, including pre-conference workshops, formal papers, how-to sessions, lightning talks, and Best of the Web, to name a few. The conference showcases “advanced research and exemplary applications of ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarships

Sep

17

2013

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute will be accepting applications for scholarships for the Summer 2014 Institute. The scholarships cover tuition costs with the exception of a small, non-refundable administration fee (students $150, non-students $300). Details for submitting applications will be announced via the DHSI e-mail list and DHInstitute on Twitter. Applications are considered on a ...

PROJECT: Suppose There’s Some Connection: Visualizing Character Interactions in Ulysses for Bloomsday 2013

Sep

17

2013

Amanda Visconti, Rhonda Armstrong, Regina Higgins, Steven Hoelscher, and Pamela Andrews have used Gephi to create visualizations of the network of character relationships in Ulysses. Each person examined 10 pages of the text for seven types of character interactions, such as “character thinking of another character” or “character observing another character.” Visconti also provides a ...

RESOURCE: Geospatial Historian

Sep

17

2013

The Geospatial Historian, modeled after the Programming Historian, is a “tutorial-based open access textbook for historians and digital humanists that aim to teach digital mapping and GIS skills.” Current lessons include Google Maps and Google Earth, Installing QGIS and Adding Layers, Creating New Vector Layers, and Georeferencing. The site editors are looking for additional contributions ...

RESOURCE: DHThis

Sep

17

2013

In response to questions of transparency with the Journal of Digital Humanities, Adeline Koh, Martin Eve, Roopika Risam, Jesse Stommel, and Alex Gil have launched DHThis. Koh states in her post introducing the platform, DHThis is a news aggregator which “publishes” what the community votes to be the best or most relevant work. It is ...