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POST: Data Librarianship Educational Resources

Feb

4

2015

Jenny Mullenburg (University of Washington) has authored a post recounting her experience with several online courses that relate to data librarianship and data science. The resources she has compiled are aimed at beginners who are interested in “understanding what data management is, how the library can and should be involved, and what it means to be a ...

POST: Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s Job

Jan

29

2015

Andy Baio examines the consequences of Google’s stated mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Biao describes how in recent years Google has moved away from this mission by leaving these archival project in limbo (Google Books) or abandoning them entirely (Google News Archive). In contrast, Biao profiles the ...

POST: Big and Small Data in the Humanities

Dec

18

2014

The British Library has shared a recording and transcript of the 2014 British Library Labs Symposium keynote by Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), “Big and Small Data in the Humanities.” Hitchcock opens his keynote with praise for the British Library Labs project: There are any number of research council initiatives, European funding calls, and twitchy ...

EVENT: The Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, #rrchnm20

Nov

20

2014

A conference celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media took place at George Mason University, November 14-15, 2014. The first day was an unconference format devoted to “Hacking the History of RRCHNM,” followed by a day of invited short talks and discussion grouped into two topics: “the future ...

POST: Submissions to Digital Humanities 2015 (pt. 1-3)

Nov

13

2014

Scott Weingart (Indiana University) has written a series of posts about submissions to Digital Humanities 2015. The first post provides an overview of submissions, the second post compares and contrasts submissions for 2015 with the previous two years, and the third post investigates “the geography of submissions.” He observes, among other shifts, a rise in ...

POST: Johannes Factotum and the Ends of Expertise

Nov

6

2014

Bethany Nowviskie has shared the text of her keynote address at the 2014 Digital Library Federation Forum, in which she examines the changing nature of expertise in the academy. Nowviskie lauds the DLF community and the Forum in particular for bringing together a unique mix of experts and generalists: The ability (actually, I think, the ...

POST: The Internet Arcade and the Textures of Emulation

Nov

6

2014

Matthew Battles (metaLAB at Harvard) has written a post reflecting on his recent visit to the Internet Archive, where he was given a peek into Jason Scott‘s work archiving computer software and arcade games after giving a talk at the Books in Browsers conference. It’s technologically both antic and elegant: Jason’s system has parsed and ...

POST: Linking Lived Experiences of WWI Through Battalions?

Oct

16

2014

Mia Ridge (Trinity College Dublin) has written an update on the project, “In their own words: linking lived experiences of the First World War,” as part of her CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship. In addition to discussing the potential of crowdsourcing transcriptions, Ridge post helps to “figure out the issues researchers face and the variations in ...

POST: Open Access Publishing and Geo-Spatial Tools for (Music) Research

Oct

9

2014

Anna Kijas (University of Connecticut) has posted the text and slides from her Digital Frontiers 2014 talk, “Open Access Publishing and Geo-Spatial Tools for (Music Research).” Kijas discusses her process for selecting a platform to document and disseminate her research on the Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño, as her “goal evolved from simply publishing a print book ...

POST: Doing Web Accessibility

Oct

9

2014

Michael Rodriguez (Hodges University) has written a post at LITA Blog about improving web accessibility for library webpages. Rodriguez discusses several ways to do this work, including using the W3C Markup Validator, the WAVE Tool, and browser developer tools. He notes, You’re not a web developer, you say? Neither am I. But even if your ...

POST: What Does it Take to Be a Well-Rounded Digital Archivist?

Oct

9

2014

Peter Chan (Stanford University) has written a post examining the requirements for eight job advertisements for digital archivists from the past year. He found that all of them required formal training in archival theory and practice. Some institutions placed more emphasis on computer skills and prefer applicants to have programming skills such as PERL, XSLT, ...