A new article from Tanya Clement (UT Austin) is included in a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (Vol 9, No 2 – now available as a preview) “Feminisms in Digital Humanities,” edited by Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University). “An Information Science Question in DH Feminism” considers how “feminist inquiry can help us articulate and better ...

In a guest post on the LITA blog, Emily Reynolds and Trevor Owens (IMLS) detail digital library funding opportunities under the National Digital Platform program. They draw out the themes of this spring’s IMLS Meetings around opportunities and gaps in US digital library infrastructure and link those themes to the current finding opportunities. These themes are: Engaging, ...

The newest issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly will feature an article by Alix Keener (University of Michigan) addressing questions around collaboration between digital humanities researchers and academic librarians. “The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities” is based on research conducted with participants from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries, which includes ...

Sarah Werner has posted the slides, notes, and audio from her recent talk at Rare Book School, “How to Destroy Special Collections with Social Media in 3 Easy Steps: A Guide for Researchers and Librarians.” After pointing out that many special collections are engaging in outreach via social media, Werner lays out, step-by-step, how to ...

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) wrote a blog post, reflecting on his research on gender inequality in academia, particularly for his ongoing blog series on acceptances to the annual Digital Humanities conference. I’ll cut to the chase. My well-intentioned attempts at battling inequality suffer their own sort of bias: by focusing on measurements of inequality, I bias that ...

Miriam Posner (UCLA) shared her keynote address from the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, which took place at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries from July 22-24, 2015. In it, Posner explores the “radical, unrealized potential of digital humanities,” especially calling for engagement with gender, sexuality, and critical race theory: DH needs scholarly expertise in critical race theory, ...

David Weinberger‘s Shorenstein Center fellowship paper, “The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms: The Twisty Path towards a Net Ecosystem That Makes News More Discoverable, Reusable, and Relevant,” was released this week. The paper details the open APIs developed by The Guardian, The New York Times, and NPR, and how the usage and ...

Miriam Posner (University of California, Los Angeles) has shared the text of her talk, “Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction,” given at the Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium. Posner suggests that libraries have an “underexplored opportunity” to help humanities scholars manage their research data, but notes the peculiarity of humanities data as compared to science or ...

Trevor Muñoz (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) has written the first of what will become a summer series of posts documenting the preservation work that MITH has undertaken since its founding in 1999. “Stewarding Digital Humanities Work on the Web at MITH” introduces the institution’s guiding principles and details the considerations involved in ...

In advance of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern University) and Mitch Fraas (University of Pennsylvania) created a series of interactive graphics for The Atlantic that allow readers to explore the State of the Union addresses of every U.S. president: The Language of the State of the Union and Mapping the State ...

Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) has shared a post, “Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies as an Object Lesson,” based on her recent keynote at the ACRL-Delaware Valley Chapter annual meeting. Porter writes: “I … realized that reuse of data is not new. In fact, it is ancient, and thinking in these ...