Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida) has written a post for ProfHacker about creating story games with Twine 2.0 . Salter warns long time Twine users that Twine 2.0 is not backwards compatible, but assures readers that the changes to 2.0 will welcome new users and broaden the community, especially as many of the changes to ...

Jennifer Grayburn (Scholars’ Lab) has written a post about her experiences coding in PHP. In “Novice struggles and expert blindness: How my discomfort with PHP will make me a better instructor,” Grayburn talks about recognizing the “expert blind spot” through her work with the lab: I wonder if we should perhaps make this discomfort a ...

Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, CUNY) wrote the first post in an upcoming series describing the interactive exhibition and web application On Broadway, which includes “660,000 Instagram photos shared along Broadway during six months in 2014; Twitter posts with images for the same period in 2014;over 8 million Foursquare check-ins, 2009-2014;22 million taxi pickups and drop-offs for al of ...

Jason A. Clark (Montana State University) has written a post about his experience with the Digital Library Federation (DLF) E-Research Network, a “community of practice focused on sharing resources for implementing research data management services as well as for shared skill development and collaboration.” Clark outlines some of the immediate benefits of participating in the ...

Trevor Owens (Institute of Museum and Library Services) provides a recap of the Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) Workshop that took place at Stanford University in February, 2015, in a post on the IMLS blog. Owens notes that “one of the central points of focus at the meeting was to work through a series of ...

William G. Thomas III (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) offers a typology for digital scholarship in the humanities, which will be discussed in greater depth in the upcoming revised edition of Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities. Thomas notes that the definitions “are not meant to exclude or restrict the definition of digital scholarship. Indeed, I hope these definitions ...

Chris Alen Sula (Pratt Institute) has written a post that provides a workflow for creating Lexis Maps in Tableau Public. Recognizing that Lexis maps have application beyond demography, Sula provides readers with step by step instructions for working in Tableau as well as tips and tricks for data preparation. Though few have heard of them outside of ...

Param Bedi, Matt Gardzina, and Emily Sherwood (Bucknell University) have written a post about the central role student engagement plays in digital scholarship at Bucknell University. Robustly defining digital scholarship “as any scholarly activity that makes extensive use of one or more of the new possibilities for teaching, learning and research opened up by the unique ...

Celia Emmelhainz (Colby College) has written a post at Hack Library School on Things You Can Do as a Library Student to Prepare for a Career as a Data Librarian. She discusses the type of work that data librarians perform, the skills that define them, and offers suggestions on how to learn data skills. Some of ...

Simon Tanner (King’s College, London) authored a post proposing three reasons why the much-debated Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) benefited Digital Humanities scholars: The framework recognizes digital humanities research resources The framework demonstrates that digital humanities “enhances the research environment” The framework shows that digital humanities “has impact” Tanner ponders whether research excellence can truly be measured, but reiterates that this ...

Jason B. Jones (Trinity College) has written a post on ProfHacker reflecting on the news that Google Earth Pro is now being offered for free. The Pro version of the software “adds several interesting features, some of which might be more widely interesting: it lets you work with ArcGIS data, access different data layers, batch geocode addresses, print ...