A recent report, released as part of DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale (HAS) project, provides an overview of research data publishing in the humanities. The report, as a post from the project site explains, is the “first step in the design process of an Open Humanities Data Platform,” and is one of the eight “work packages” ...

The Educopia Institute has released a set of six Guidance Briefs on the curation and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations as part of their ETDplus project: These Guidance Briefs have been authored by the ETDplus project team as short (3-4 page) “how-to” oriented briefs that will help ETD/IR programs build and nurture supportive relationships ...

The Open Library of the Humanities has announced Annotran, an open-source translation tool based on the Hypothes.is web annotation tool. Just as hypothes.is allows users to collaboratively annotate the web, Annotran will facilitate collaborative translation of webpages. Annotran was developed by Marija Katic and Martin Paul Eve in the Centre for Technology and Publishing at ...

A new article by Arfon M. Smith (GitHub, Inc.), Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kyle E. Niemeyer (Oregon State University), and the FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group posted on PeerJ lays out six priciples of software citation, arguing that “software should be cited on the same basis as any other research product.” ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has posted Planning a Digital Scholarship Center 2016[pdf], the report of the May 2016 workshop by the same name organized by CNI and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Authored by Diane Goldenberg-Hart (CNI), the paper includes summaries of presentations by Alison Armstrong (The Ohio State University), Dale Askey ...

Earlier this month, Open Humanities Press released the new volume Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy, edited by Roberto Simanowski. The observations shared in this book take the form of conversations about digital media and culture centered around four distinct thematic fields: politics and government, algorithm and censorship, art ...

The Digital Library Foundation (DLF) has released a revised code of conduct in advance of the 2016 DLF Forum in Milwaukee. The code applies to the Forum as well as other DLF in-person events. Revisions to the code of conduct were undertaken with the goal of making the Digital Library Federation “a welcoming organization and the focal point for a digital ...

In “Inclusive DH2016: Papers and posters that address gender, race, sexuality, class, and cross cultural language issues,” Amy Earhart (Texas A&M) provides a list of papers, workshops, and sessions at the upcoming Digital Humanities 2016 Conference (Kraków, 11-16 July) that specifically mention issues of diversity and inclusion. The list includes a two-part session on diversity: ...

Thomas Padilla (University of California, Santa Barbara) and James Baker (University of Sussex) recently launched the sourcecaster, a tool that “helps you use the command line to work through common challenges that come up when working with digital primary sources.” Padilla has written a brief post to explain the project, which is based on ffmprovisr, ...