Jessamyn West (Open Library) wrote a post that eloquently explains git, GitHub, and how they empower users to work on open source projects: In the past we’ve always said that Open Source was great because if you didn’t like something you could change it. However it’s only been recently that the tools to do this ...

Jarrett M. Drake (Princeton University) wrote up the talk he gave at the 2016 Radcliffe Workshop on Technology & Archival Processing at the Schlesinger Library, “RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards a New Principle for Archives and Archival Description” where he critiques provenance “from appraisal through access.” Challenging the centrality of provenance in archival description, Drake considers its role in ...

Amy Wickner (University of Maryland Libraries) has shared a post at Hack Library School entitled “Algorithms and Libraries: A Case for Paying Attention.” In this piece, she provides an overview of recent writing from within and outside the library world on issues of automation and algorithmic bias, including work by Safiya Noble, Matthew Reidsma, and Ian Milligan and ...

In an article entitled “Saving Historic Radio Before It’s Too Late,” Adrienne LeFrance (The Atlantic) details the Library of Congress’s audio preservation efforts and the National Recording Registry, drawing particular attention to the difficulties of preserving access to broadcast media. But serious discussion of how to preserve early audio collections, and what to preserve, didn’t ...

Laurent Romary (DARIAH and INRIA), Mike Mertens (DARIAH), and Anne Baillot (Centre Marc Bloch and INRIA) have released a new paper, “Data fluidity in DARIAH — pushing the agenda forward.” Romary, Mertens, and Baillot’s paper details the establishment of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), an overview of the infrastructure’s current membership, ...

In “The New Wave of Review,” Cameron Blevins (Rutgers University) considers what he sees as an increase in digital history project reviews that appear in the discipline’s print scholarly journals. Blevins identifies three trends in the approach of these reviews: those that treat digital history projects primarily as public engagement (and not a scholarly contribution ...

In a Contribute post at the Digital Library Federation blog, Daniel Chamberlain (Occidental College) details the collaborative work that led to the development of his institution’s conception of the Digital Liberal Arts. The Center for Digital Liberal Arts (which Chamberlain directs) partnered with the Library and other campus groups to develop a program that connected the curriculum ...

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University Libraries) has written a post on visualizing two-dimensional images in three-dimensional space using cover images from the IF Magazine archive as a dataset. The tutorial walks users through gathering a dataset of images, preparing them for visualization, and using ImageJ to explore the images in three-dimensional space. Padilla details the various tools and commands necessary ...

Ed Summers (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) wrote a post explaining the background and genesis of the Mellon-supported Documenting the Now project. Developed in partnership with Chris Freeland (Washington University in St. Louis) and Bergis Jules (University of California at Riverside), the project has two main goals: The first is to develop an ...

In a post on the Digital Library Federation’s blog this week, Mackenzie Brooks and Brandon Walsh (both Washington and Lee University) detail collaborations between librarians and faculty on undergraduate-centered digital pedagogy and scholarship across Washington and Lee University. Brooks and Walsh state that their “primary goal is to foster communication and training among librarians and faculty at ...

In a post on his blog, “Embracing ephemerality in the digital humanities,” Andy Schocket (Bowling Green State University) writes about the long-term sustainability of digital humanities projects and how the ephemeral nature of some of this scholarship can impact DH work. One thing that not many digital humanists write about directly, but has become increasingly ...