Hugh Cayless (Duke University) has written a post introducing CETEIcean, a new JavaScript library he developed with Raff Viglianti (MITH) to display unmodified TEI documents using HTML5: Instead of transforming TEI XML into HTML for rendering in a browser, it does a 1::1 conversion of the XML into HTML Custom Elements. In practice what that ...

Hillel Arnold (Rockefeller Archive Center) has shared the text of his talk, “Critical Work: Archivists as Maintainers,” given at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) earlier this month. In it, Arnold considers archivists’ “invisibility problem” alongside recent work in maintenance theory to respond to “the imbalance of prestige, power and ...

In a post on the AHA Today blog, Annie Johnson (Temple University) discussed her trajectory from history graduate student to library publishing and scholarly communications specialist. I got involved with the DH community in these ways not because I thought it would lead to a job, but because I believed that DH had the potential to ...

In a post on The National Archives Narations blog,  Meredith Doviak (The National Archives) announced  the National Archives’ contributions to Google Arts & Culture’s American Democracy Collection.  The collection of interactive exhibits about presidential elections in the United States involved collaborations with the WNET Thirteen, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the Archive of American Television, and the National ...

Leo Stezano (University of California, San Diego) has published a post on the LITA blog about his work at the Avery Library of Architectural and Fine Arts at Columbia University to “explore the possibilities that GIS data offers for providing access to and context for collections. Stezano recounts three projects (The New York Real Estate Brochures ...

In a post entitled “looking for open digital collections,” Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) returns to the problem of digital access to special collections, to detail the complexities of locating and working with digital images from the collections of libraries, archives, and museums. What I need for my work are images able to be freely used, whether because they ...

In a post on the The Signal, Jaime Mears (Library of Congress) reflects on the June 2016 Archives Unleashed 2.0: Web Archive Datathon. With support from the National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Internet Archive, Rutgers University, and the University of Waterloo, the workshop presented “an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our ...

Kenton Rambsy (University of Texas at Arlington) and Howard Rambsy II (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) have compiled a series of their blog entries “related to the intersections of black artistic culture, technology, DH, and African American literary studies” for the National Endowment for the Humanities project, “Seshat: A Howard University Digital Humanities Initiative” on Rambsy’s ...

Jon Voss (Historypin) has written a post for NARAtions, the blog of the U.S. National Archives, the first in a series of blog posts aimed to go “behind the scenes to explore how the National Archives is taking a user-centered design approach toward engagement on a major digitization initiative of a unique collection of Wartime ...

Stephanie Kingsley (American Historical Association) has written a post recapping “Saving the Web: The Ethics and Challenges of Preserving What’s on the Internet,” the one-day symposium held at John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress earlier this month. “Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb” is a detailed and thoroughly referenced summary of ...

The China Policy Institute blog (University of Nottingham) featured six articles on digital humanities in China from June 3-13, 2016. As Lik Huang Tsui writes in his post: University libraries will likely become important focal points for developing digital scholarship in China. Researchers from various humanistic disciplines are aware as well that the digital humanities ...