Amanda Visconti (Purdue University Libraries) has posted her dissertation defense talk, “‘How can you love a work, if you don’t know it?’ Critical code and design toward participatory digital editions,” delivered in April 2015. Visconti’s dissertation project, Infinite Ulysses, explores the ways in which digital editions can support social reading, annotation, and other affordances of reading and ...

In a post at the ACRL TechConnect Blog, Eric Phetteplace (California College of Arts) provides a tutorial on eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). In the tutorial, Phetteplace gives his description of what XSLT is and how it can be used, and offers a step-by-step method for a MODS-to-Dublin-Core metadata transformation, including links to his complete ...

Issue nine of the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy features an article by Joanna Swafford (SUNY New Paltz) entitled “Teaching Literature Through Technology: Sherlock Holmes and Digital Humanities,” which documents an introductory digital humanities course’s use of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories as “a corpus on which to practice basic digital humanities methodologies ...

Bergis Jules (UC Riverside) recently published “Some Thoughts on Ethics and DocNow” on Medium. Jules’ piece focuses on the ethics of collecting social media archives, prompted by his work on the DocNow project, which “responds to public’s use of social media for chronicling historically significant events, as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among ...

BloggERS!, the blog of the Society of American Archivists’ Electronic Records Section, recently published “Mecha-Archivists Revisited: An Interview with Trevor Owens and Emily Reynolds.” Owens and Reynolds (both IMLS) discussed the IMLS’ national digital platform funding priority, its impact on the work of digital archivists, exciting projects coming out of the funding priority, and the concept ...

Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University) posted the text of her keynote delivered at the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) Conference in Calgary. The talk explores what it means to teach digital humanities and how practitioners “must differentiate it from other practices of digital pedagogy, and whether in this world that is ...

In the fifth installment of the special interview feature series “The Digital in the Humanities,” in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Melissa Dinsman (University of Notre Dame) interviews Bethany Nowviskie (Digital Library Foundation) about her background in digital work, its role inside universities and beyond them, and the role of libraries and librarians in the digital humanities. ...

This week, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) published a post on the NARA blog, NARAtions, about their newly-released online catalog API . The post begins with a simple introduction to APIs for those unfamiliar, and then breaks down specifics of why the NARA API has so much potential: The dataset for our ...

Amanda Visconti (Purdue University) published a lesson that outlines how to build a static webpage with Jekyll and GitHub Pages along with a robust explanation about the benefits of learning to construct static sites (and what they are in contrast to dynamic sites), understanding Jeykll, and engaging with GitHub. Visconti links to excellent documentation across the ...

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Europeana announced the launch of RightsStatements.org, “a collaborative approach to rights statements that can be used to communicate the copyright status of cultural objects”: In this cooperative effort, we have built a flexible system of rights statements that allows our contributing cultural heritage partners, who hold the ...

Thomas Padilla (UC Santa Barbara) recently posted a portion of a talk he’d given at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Digital Humanities Research Network on his blog. The extract, “Data Praxis in the Humanities: Function and Ethic,” focuses on Padilla’s efforts at communicating “the concept of data in the Humanities”: Seeing and working with an ...