In “Down the Rabbit Hole,” Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) links his search for the source behind a map he’d seen in a tweet (and the resulting difficulties and dead-ends) to the work of the Viral Texts project. Weingart draws similarities between 19th century newspaper citations and (the failures of) modern-day citation practice online. A single snippet of ...

Domenico Fiormonte (University of Roma Tre) has published a blog post on InfoLet, “Towards monocultural (digital) Humanities?” Fiormonte, partially in response to Gregory Crane’s (Tufts University) recent article, “The Big Humanities, National Identity and the Digital Humanities in Germany,” analyzes linguistic diversity in digital humanities research. English native speakers get a free ride, but the ...

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies has posted a lightly edited version of “Digital Manuscripts as Critical Edition,” a talk given by Christoph Flüeler (University of Fribourg) at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. In his examination of the relationship between originals and digital reproductions, Flüeler calls for a “critical theory of the digital ...

Simon Tanner (King’s College London) offers an introduction to Text Capture and OCR in a recent blog post. Tanner outlines the various ways in which digital humanities textual datasets are created from physical artifacts, and the strengths and weaknesses of OCR, rekeying, handwriting recognition, and speech recognition as methods for creating them. This post is ...

Lisa Spiro (Rice University) has written a post recapping her experience at the Arclight Symposium at Concordia University, an event which “brought together film and media historians with digital humanists to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of digital methods for media history.” In “Exploring Digital Humanities and Media History,” Spiro details the core principles, challenges, ...

What would the Statistical Atlas of the United States (first published in 1874) look like with current data? Nathan Yau (Flowing Data) has created a project doing just that, using the programming language, R. “Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data” I used similar styling, and had one main rule for ...

The latest “So What Do You Do?” feature from Hack Library School consists of interviews with four data visualization professionals in different roles at the University of Michigan: Marci Brandenburg, Justin Joque, Stephanie O’Malley, and Ted Hall. The contributors detail what drew them to work in data visualization, document their day-to-day practice, and provide advice ...

The Journal Of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, a formerly subscription-access journal in publication since 2009, has become the first of its kind to adopt the Open Library of the Humanities open access model. According to journal editors Scott Thurston, Gareth Farmer, and Vicky Sparrow: This move to a fully open-access platform with the OLH is ...

In “Open-Sourcing MoMA’s Digital Vault,” Ben Fino-Radin (Museum of Modern Art) explains the process and rationale behind the creation of Binder, the museum’s new open-source software for “overseeing and managing the active preservation of digital collections.” Binder was developed in conjunction with Artefactual Systems, and designed for use alongside Archivematica and Arkivum. What is good ...

Trevor Owens (Institute of Museum and Library Services) has written a post on his blog, reflecting on his experience teaching a Digital Public History seminar at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. “Becoming Digital Public Historians” references both the title of a course unit and, Owens argues, a “kind of identity work [that] is at the core ...