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POST: How to Get MODS Using the NYPL Digital Collections API

Sep

24

2013

Dot Porter has written a post sharing her experience working with the NYPL Digital Collections API . Porter explains her initial attempts, roadblocks, and solutions to batch-downloading MODS records for between 1500 and 2000 objects. (Hint: she was able to do it “with a Mac terminal and just a little bit of XSLT.”) dh+lib ReviewThis post was ...

POST: Digital Humanities at MLA 2014

Sep

24

2013

Mark Sample has once again helpfully compiled a list of “digitally inflected” sessions taking place at the 2014 convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), in Chicago. A few of interest to the library community: The Twenty-First-Century Library: Discovery Services versus Subject Specialists Meeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate Research Text-nology Idea Jam: ...

POST: Research Data Sharing without Barriers…Get Involved?

Sep

24

2013

Rachel Bruce (JISC) introduces the Research Data Alliance (RDA) by summarizing the group’s first plenary meeting that took place in Washington, D.C. from September 16-18th, 2013. Some of the areas that the groups are tackling: metadata & a metadata standards directory; legal interoperability; data citation; a community capability model; persistent identifiers; practical policy; data foundation ...

POST: Keeping the “L” in Digital: Applying LIS Core Competencies to Digital Humanities Work

Sep

10

2013

In an article in The Journal of Creative Library Practice, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick of the University of South Carolina Lancaster places “many core activities of [Digital Humanities] squarely in the domain of modern librarianship.” Reviewing the ALA Core Competencies of Librarianship, Kendrick “reveals how LIS competencies have been applied to a Korean popular culture DH project at ...

POST: Creating Themes in Omeka 2.0

Sep

3

2013

Margaret Heller (Digital Services Librarian, Loyola University) has written a brief introduction to creating custom themes in Omeka 2.0 on the ACRL TechConnect blog. For libraries that already have Omeka installed, have access to the code, and have multiple groups requesting Omeka sites, creating a theme template can be a useful way to scale what your library ...

POST: Crowdsourcing Best Practices for Experimental Journals: Transparency

Sep

3

2013

Drawing on her recent experience working with the Journal of Digital Humanities, Adeline Koh (Assistant Professor of Literature, Stockton College) has invited input on best practices for increasing transparency in the publication process for academic journals. Starting with ideas offered by Roopika Risam and Scott Weingart, Koh seeks to develop practices that take into consideration ...

POST: How Did They Make That?

Sep

3

2013

Miriam Posner has crafted a useful introduction to some exemplary digital humanities projects, outlining the tools and technology used to create each and giving helpful pointers to resources for getting started with them. She writes: Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of ...

POST: No Holds Barred Advice from Tom Scheinfeldt

Aug

26

2013

Tom Scheinfeldt shares some thoughts about how he evaluated a “venerable cultural heritage institution’s” digital program. Scheinfeldt’s appraisal offers cultural heritage institutions a useful roadmap for considering what digital programs need to be successful and relevant, such as an integrated social strategy and mobile strategies. Above all, Scheinfeldt reminds us that “Digital is not a revenue ...

POST: A Kind of Skepticism Humanists Should Hold On To

Aug

20

2013

Ted Underwood, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, continues his examination of some of the areas of overlap between the humanities and more quantitative disciplines. Underwood’s main concern is that numbers tend to distract the eye. If you quantify part of your argument, critics (including your own internal critic) will tend to ...

POST: Refining the Problem — More work with NYPL’s open data, Part Two

Aug

20

2013

In part II of his experiment to create an index of items using the New York Public Library’s What’s on the menu? data set, Trevor Muñoz discusses his work with the data and some of the lessons he learned. Muñoz used the Open Refine tool and, finding the NYPL data set too large to easily ...

POST: What IS on the Menu? More Work with NYPL’s Open Data, Part One

Aug

13

2013

Part of making the argument for open collections data is showing what can be done with it. Trevor Muñoz’s recent blog post, in which he plays with the NYPL’s open data from the “What’s on the Menu?” project, explains how he uses the collection data as a testbed for data curation work. As Muñoz states: ...