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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) released abstracts for its Fall 2020 project briefings, which include wide-ranging topics and scope, from containerization of digital exhibits and building data literacy, to big social data stewardship and collaborative pedagogy. We’ve listed some of the many of interest to digital humanities librarianship. Academic Libraries Join the Fight Against ...

The Price Lab Podcast, from the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, is “a series focused on the people who are building, using, and critiquing the digital tools and techniques transforming the humanities.” Episodes feature conversations with different scholars about their projects and the tools they use to complete them. Topics of ...

Alison Mudditt, PLOS Chief Executive Officer, recently published a post about reimagining scholarly communications as more equitable and just. In her post, she reflects on the particular challenges of 2020, noting her own privilege: “I can comfortably work from home, my organization has proven itself to be creative and resilient, and my close circle of ...

Through Arizona State University’s Civic Classics Collections, access in now available to a first-edition printing of “The Federalist Papers” and 23 other rare books and manuscripts in American history. Maintained by the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, the Center for Political Thought and Leadership, and ASU Library, this collection allows users to ...

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Altmetrics Manifesto, Altmetric has published The State of Altmetrics, which explores a decade of innovation and growth in the field. Contributions from leading thinkers and authors of the original Altmetrics Manifesto explore topics including: Ethical uses of altmetrics Using machine learning to improve altmetrics Altmetrics as “sensors” to detect ...

The Index of Digital Humanities Conferences, a website that compiles Digital Humanities conference data from the 1960s until the present, has been released by its project team, Scott B. Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University), Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara (University of Colorado Boulder), and Matthew Lincoln (Carnegie Mellon University). As the website’s “About” page explains, While the term “Digital ...

This project write-up from Susanna at indigenous.engineering highlights an important contribution to digital humanities research, particularly as it relates to the ways in which DH practice intersects with social justice work. The project uses computational methods to examine ways in which the misappropriation of Indigenous identities actively works to negatively impact contemporary Indigenous communities, and ...