In a post on her blog, Amanda Visconti (Purdue University Libraries) shared the job talk she gave when interviewing for her current position as assistant professor & digital humanities specialist. The talk, entitled “Service +/- collaboration for digital humanities in the library,” presents a variety of approaches toward what a DH specialist in a library might ...

Roger Todd Whitson (Washington State University) and Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida) introduce the current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on Comics as Scholarship with an article entitled “Comics and the Digital Humanities.” In this piece, the authors, who edited the special issue, explore the tension between print and digital with regard to the ...

Mx A. Matienzo (Digital Public Library of America) has posted a version of their keynote address from the 2015 Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Forum, “To Hell With Good Intentions: Linked Data, Community and the Power to Name.” Matienzo frames the talk in the context of a hope that “… we can start to examine linked ...

This week, Trevor Owens (IMLS) posted a draft of an essay he is contributing to A Companion to Digital History, with an eye to receiving comments and discussion that could improve the essay draft. Owens’ draft of “Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History” interrogates how the digital shift within archives affects the work of historians. At this point, ...

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 ...