Sharon Leon (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) has written a post discussing the genesis of the newly-released “Digital Dissertation Guidelines” for George Mason University’s History and Art History Department. Leon points to some of the materials that were consulted in developing the guidelines, though she ends on a cautionary note: [W]e still ...

Jaye Weatherburn (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) authored a post summing up the Whyte Memorial lecture delivered by Ross Harvey (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia), “Keeping, Forgetting, and Misreading Digital Material: Libraries Learning from Archives and Recordkeeping Practice.” Harvey “extolled the benefits of archival principles, and called for them to be used for managing digital materials.” ...

In “No More Excuses,” Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University) calls for the end of all-male panels in the digital humanities and points to several crowdsourced resources for locating women in DH: Build a Better DH Syllabus, Build a Better List of Code Experts, and Build a Better Panel. Wernimont concludes: There are no more excuses. ...

Jonathan Reeve (Columbia University) has written a post, “Introducing Git-Lit,” inviting input on a project that turns digitized manuscripts from the British Library into GitHub repositories: Git-Lit aims to parse, version control, and post each work in the British Library’s corpus of digital texts. Parsing the texts will transform the machine-readable metadata into human-readable prefatory ...

In a blog post titled, “Digital humanities might never be evenly distributed,” Ted Underwood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) considers the different ways in which digital humanities infrastructure, support, and collaboration work (or don’t work) across constituencies in institutions. He posits that DH can be understood “as an institutional achievement that happens to exist on some ...

Ted Underwood has written a post describing his work in collaboration with HathiTrust Research Center to create a dataset for scholars looking to get started with distant reading methods on 18th & 19th century literature (in English). Using the page-level wordcounts available in HTRC and pairing them with page-level metadata created to track the genre ...

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has announced the formation of a new Special Interest Group, Libraries and Digital Humanities: ADHO’s Libraries and Digital Humanities SIG aims at fostering collaboration and communication among librarians and other scholars doing DH work, by showcasing the work of librarians engaged in DH projects, advocating for initiatives of interest and ...

Kevin Smith (Duke University) has authored a post for the Duke University Libraries Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog on the US Copyright Office’s new proposals on orphan works and mass digitization. Smith breaks down the proposals, including how the “extended collective licensing” provision would work: Alongside this proposal for how to deter use of individual orphan ...

Micah Vandegrift (Florida State University) shared a post in which he considers how to build on the iSchools+DH project that cross-pollinated iSchool students with digital humanities centers. Vandegrift has set his focus on compiling syllabuses from DH courses taught in library schools, asking: How are DH courses being taught in LIS programs and iSchools? Is ...

Alex Gil (Columbia University) shared a post collocating thoughts on the #dhpoco summer school in 2013 with more recent ruminations inspired by the work of Bess Sadler and Chris Bourg, Miriam Posner, and Tim Sherratt. Exploring questions of activism and the potential for digital humanities to work towards “one of the broadest universals we have known,” ...

Jess Waggoner (University of California, Santa Cruz) has written a post providing an overview of the Omeka Curator Dashboard, “a suite of fifteen plugins (though a bonus sixteenth will be coming soon!) designed to facilitate object import and export, manage metadata, and curate collections.” Waggoner explains how working on the Grateful Dead Archive Online project ...