In a blog post at Modeling Literary History, entitled “Using Networks to Re-think Periodization,” Michael Gavin (University of South Carolina) considers the challenge of communicating more than the mere scope of a dataset with large-scale network visualizations, in this case using EEBO-TCP (Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership) data. After identifying and highlighting dense ...

In a recent blog post on “The Facilitated Collection,” Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC) builds on OCLC’s previous work on networked collections with a consideration of the emergence of “the facilitated collection.” Defined as “a coordinated mix of local, external and collaborative services assembled around user needs,” this type of collection is necessarily organized around network logic rather that print logic. Dempsey points to ...

Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) has shared the text of his talk at MLA2016, “‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously,” in which he considers the place of the digital products of mass-digitization efforts within the practice of bibliography and scholarly editing. Cordell posits that the digitized texts should themselves be considered a new edition: ...

Élika Ortega (University of Kansas) has shared a version of her talk at MLA2016, “Crisscrossing Borders: GO::DH Regional Networks in Dialogue,” in which she reflects on recent discussions about diversity in the digital humanities. Ortega provides “an ecology of knowledges in DH,” drawing attention to the situatedness of DH work as she explores the way ...

In a guest post at ACRLog entitled “Why GLAM Wiki: Wikipedia and Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” Siân Evans (Senior Implementation Manager at Artstor) describes her work with Art+Feminism, an organization dedicated to increasing the representation of cis and trans women in the arts on Wikipedia. From the post: Wikipedia edit-a-thons also provide a space in which ...

In response to the release of The Franklin D. Roosevelt Master Speech File, Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University Libraries) has put together a bulk data gathering and transformation workflow tutorial with that dataset as an example. Padilla meticulously documents the phases of the process and provides tips about the tools and commands at work in the scenario. The steps are: ...

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published the first DH2016 post in his ongoing series analyzing submissions and acceptances to the annual Digital Humanities conference. Weingart scraped data from the conference submission tool (ConfTool), which allowed him to compare this year’s number of submissions, type (long paper, short paper, panel, or poster), number of authors ...

StoryCorps, a large-scale oral history project archived at the American Folklife Center, recently created the StoryCorps.me mobile application to act as “a global platform where anyone in the world can record and upload an oral history interview.” In a post to The Signal, the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, Nicole Saylor (American Folklife Center Archive) ...

Katina Rogers (The Futures Initiative, Graduate Center, CUNY) has posted her position paper for an upcoming Council of Graduate Schools workshop on the future of the dissertation. In it, she links the changes and challenges afoot for dissertations with those facing the greater landscape of scholarship and scholarly publishing. The same questions of values, methods, and ...

Leo Stezano (Columbia University Libraries) wrote a post for the LITA Blog entitled Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture. In the post, Stezano outlines some tips for fostering a successful agile development shop in a library setting. Additionally, he provides links for further reading on agile development teams and the broader discussion of institutional culture issues ...

Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern University) has shared two posts about word embedding models–“Vector Space Models for the digital humanities” and “Rejecting the gender binary“–on his blog. Each post explores facets algorithms that can be used in digital humanities research. The first post provides an overview to word embedding models, contrasting them with topic models: DHers use topic models because it ...