Tim Sherratt (National Library of Australia) has shared the text of “Life on the Outside: Collections, Contexts, and the Wild, Wild Web,” a talk given at the Japanese Association for the Digital Humanities conference. Sherratt discusses some of the challenges to and rewards for cultural heritage institutions sharing their collections online using examples from his work at ...

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has posted the text of a talk she gave at the Digital Frontiers conference, titled “Here and There: Creating DH Community.” Posner begins by addressing some of the larger issues around building community: For me, community happens when people are genuinely invested in seeing each other succeed. This doesn’t happen by being ...

Roxanne Shirazi (CUNY Graduate Center) has written up a talk delivered as part of a panel sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Section of the ACRL on “Digital Humanities and Libraries: Power and Privilege, Practice and Theory.” The panel, at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 30, 2014, ...

The May/June issue of Educause Review takes “Digital Scholarship” and its theme and includes several articles and online supplements on DH and libraries: Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers: Joan K. Lippincott (Coalition for Networked Information), Harriette Hemmasi (Brown University), and Vivian Marie Lewis (McMaster University) provide an overview of the broader institutional context played by ...

The closing keynote address to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2014 was given this year by Alex Gil (Columbia University), under the title, “The (Digital) Library of Babel.” With nods to both Jerome McGann and Bethany Nowviskie, Gil reminds us of the intellectual urgency surrounding the work undertaken by digital humanities scholars, and calls for a more ...

The latest issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies is organized around the theme, In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities (subscription required). The issue draws on ideas first presented at an MLA 2013 session titled, “The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities,” and later expanded into a 2-day conference sponsored by the Center for 21st ...

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has shared a video based on a talk she gave at The Graduate Center, CUNY recently following up on her original “How Did They Make That?” post. Posner introduces a three step process for interrogating the work that goes into a digital project in a way that is useful both to students and ...

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has written a post calling for digital humanities centers and programs to focus on people rather than projects as a means of “investing in people’s long-term potential as scholars.” Posner outlines the benefits of investing in people and teams rather than projects, citing successful efforts at the Universities of Virginia and Maryland: ...

Last week, OCLC Research released the report “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” Written by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, the report is aimed at helping library administrators communicate with their deans and provosts about the library’s roles in digital humanities. Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia) offers a response that acknowledges the report’s value ...

Last week Tom Scheinfeldt (University of Connecticut) gave a talk at the 2013 ACRL/NY Symposium, whose theme was “The Library as Knowledge Laboratory.” His talk, “Looks Like the Internet: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Projects Succeed When They Look Like the Network,” addresses what he sees as a worrisome trend that is moving digital heritage ...