Nikki Silva (Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative) authored a blog post reflecting on the changing state of the dissertation across disciplines. Silva lists examples of hybrid and digital dissertation projects: Knowing that these projects are out there, may lead other PhD Students to start the conversation with their committee and may lead to more digital dissertation ...

Lee Skallerup Bessette (University of Mary Washington), Autumn Caines (Capital University), and Maha Bali (American University in Cairo) co-authored a post on ProfHacker responding to The New Media Consortium’s report, “Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy.” Responding to five different points, the authors reflect on the relationship between organizations like The New Media Consortium and various ...

Mike Ashenfelder (Library of Congress) has published a write-up of the Library of Congress’ Collections As Data conference on the LOC blog The Signal. Ashenfelder notes that the conference “coalesced into two main themes: 1) digital collections are composed of data that can be acquired,  processed and displayed in countless scientific and creative ways and 2) ...

In a two–part series on the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Issues and Advocacy Roundtable blog, Rachel Mattson (Archives of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club) addresses a contemporary debate surrounding police-worn body camera footage. Body-worn cameras (BWCs for short) began raising a range of legal and archival questions that municipalities and police departments were woefully ...

Chris Bourg (MIT Libraries) has posted the text of her Access 2016 talk, “Libraries, Technology, and Social Justice,” in which she takes on the notion of library neutrality and imagines what a social justice agenda would look like in academic libraries. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Safiya Noble and Sapna Cheryan as ...

Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) has written a post, “researching while unaffiliated,” on the widespread issue of access to research materials and how, as an independent scholar, she has dealt with this difficulty. It’s been just over a year since I left my job to become an independent scholar/freelance writer/humanist at large/wow this terminology is bad. I’ve been ...

Just in time for the Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Inititative (TEI) Consortium slated to begin next week in Vienna, Martin Mueller (Northwestern University) has written “Whither TEI? The Next Thirty Years,” in which he takes “a critical look at the TEI, focusing on shortcomings and on what should be done if the TEI ...

Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University) has published the slides and text of a recent talk she gave at the Yale Book History Seminar,”Doing not Being a Book.” Wernimont’s post focuses on “the death of the book” by looking at its history and academic current uses, including “affordances of digital ‘dynamic knowledge systems’ that (like books) ...

Open Library of Humanities (OLH) founders and Academic Project Directors Martin Paul Eve and Caroline Edwards (both Birkbeck, University of London) have authored a post celebrating the one year anniversary of the launch of the OLH. The post provides information on the journals published by OLH, as well as statistics on publication, subscriptions, and views ...

Cinthya Ippoliti (Oklahoma State University) has authored a post for the LITA blog on creating information literacy learning outcomes for digitally inflected assignments. How do we know that students know how to use a 3D printer successfully? How can we measure the learning that occurred when they designed a file for upload into a visualization ...