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RECOMMENDED: Data Primer: Making Digital Humanities Research Data Public

Dec

1

2022

Published earlier in 2022, the collaboratively authored and edited Data Primer: Making Digital Humanities Research Data Public (Felicity Tayler; Marjorie Mitchell; Chantal Ripp; and Pascale Dangoisse) provides an overview of current practices around data management and curation for digital humanities practitioners. Book Description Data management and curation are important processes for digital humanists: without proper ...

RECOMMENDED: 3D Data Creation to Curation: Building Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation

Oct

28

2022

3D Data Creation to Curation: Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation, edited by Jennifer Moore (Washington University), Adam Rountrey (University of Michigan), and Hannah Scates Kettler (Iowa State University), provides valuable information on various aspects of handling 3D data. Topic addressed include: best practices for preservation, management and storage, metadata requirements, copyright and legal issues, and ...

RECOMMENDED: Ian Linkletter on Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene

Sep

30

2022

Earlier this month, a podcast episode was released by Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene, featuring Ian Linkletter. Linkletter is a educational technology librarian, currently being sued by Proctorio, a surveillance technology company. The episode addresses his transition to librarianship from educational technology, and he emphasizes the need for librarians to critically engage with the tools ...

RECOMMENDED: Good Systems Humanist-in-the-Loop: Responsible Data Operations and Workforce Development in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Sep

15

2022

Tanya Clement (U Texas), Andi Gustavson (U Texas), Allyssa Guzman (U Texas), Nathan Alexander Moore (CU Boulder), and Lauren Walker (U Texas) have published a white paper entitled “Good Systems Humanist-in-the-Loop: Responsible Data Operations and Workforce Development in Libraries, Archives, and Museums” on the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Scholar Works repository. This paper ...

RECOMMENDED: Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata

Dec

9

2021

Mary Aycock, Nicole Critchley, and Amanda Scott (all Texas State University) presented “Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata,” at the CNI Fall 2021 Showcase. From the abstract, “As part of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging Wikidata pilot, Texas State University Libraries has embarked on new linked data projects: authority work for faculty, an oral ...

RECOMMENDED: Digital Humanities and the Climate Crisis: A Manifesto

Nov

18

2021

Anne Baillot (Le Mans Université), James Baker (University of Sussex), Madiha Zahrah Choksi (Columbia University), Alex Gil (Columbia University), Kaiama L. Glover (Barnard College), Ana Lam (Barnard College), Alicia Peaker (Barnard College), Walter Scholger (University of Graz), Torsten Roeder (University of Wuppertal), and Jo Lindsay Walton (University of Sussex), have authored, “Digital Humanities and the ...

RECOMMENDED: Addressing the Alarming Systems of Surveillance Built by Library Vendors

Apr

15

2021

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has released a news post that is essential reading on the current landscape of surveillance systems integrated into library vendor products: On April 2nd, news broke that RELX subsidiary LexisNexis signed a multi-million dollar contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to reporting on the ICE ...

RECOMMENDED: Fostering Community Engagement through Datathon Events: The Archives Unleashed Experience

Mar

18

2021

In the latest issue (2021 15.1) of Digital Humanities Quarterly, authors Samantha Fritz (Department of History, University of Waterloo), Ian Milligan (Department of History, University of Waterloo), Nick Ruest (Library, York University), and Jimmy Lin (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo) reflect on their work on Archives Unleashed. In “Fostering Community ...

RECOMMENDED: Is There a Text in These Data?

Feb

18

2021

Dorothea Salo (University of Wisconsin at Madison) recently published an open access chapter, “Is There a Text in These Data? The Digital Humanities and Preserving the Evidence.” Part of the edited volume, Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access, eds. Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray (MIT Press, 2020), this chapter explores ...

RECOMMENDED: Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing

Feb

11

2021

Books contain multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing is a three-part research and scoping report created to support the Experimental Publishing and Reuse Work Package (WP 6) of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. It also serves as a resource for the scholarly community, especially for authors and publishers interested in pursuing more experimental forms of book ...

RECOMMENDED: Lizard People in the Library

Feb

4

2021

Barbara Fister (Gustavus Adolphus College and Project Information Literacy) has authored an essay, “Lizard People in the Library,” for Project Information Literacy’s Provocation Series. In this piece Fister tackles the role of information literacy educators in the age of “fake news,” QAnon, and other conspiracy theories. Fister provides an overview of polarization, filter bubbles, and ...