Librarians, archivists, and knowledge workers must continually grapple with ethical ways of working with unethical collections. Sean Purcell, Kalani Craig, and Michelle Dalmau offer one possible digital humanities intervention in their recently published article, “The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object” in In The Library With The Lead Pipe. “The Digital Opaque” reflects on their experiences ...

This is a guest post with Dr. Caddie Alford, who summarizes several readings that she encountered over the summer that explore current realities of technopessimism and technofascism in digital rhetoric studies. We hope you’ll appreciate her thoughtful insights! – The dh+lib Review Editors   What I Read This Summer: Caddie Alford I’m Associate Professor of ...

Olivia Wikle (Iowa State University) and Evan Peter Williamson (University of Idaho), have published an article in latest issue of the code4lib Journal, on “Static Web Methodology as a Sustainable Approach to Digital Humanities Projects.” Their article advocates for a reexamination of digital humanities platforms through a minimal computing lens, proposing static web development, “Lib-Static,” ...

Multiple data rescue efforts are currently underway to track and preserve disappearing government and public data in response to recent executive orders from the US government. Many public datasets have been taken down from governmental data repositories and while some have since been restored, their removal is having massive implications for researchers in accessing data ...

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) recently published the Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines, a “collaborative document provides guidance for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) to implement accessibility best practices through policies and workflows.” From the announcement: Some topics discussed and key takeaways include: Policies should commit to accessibility, name standards like ...

The Digital Preservation Coalition has made freely-available online Preserving Geospatial Data, written by Meagan A. Snow, Geospatial Data Visualization Librarian at the Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress: This report is designed as a resource for use by librarians, archivists, and digital preservation specialists who may be new to the realm of ...