Doug Boyd (Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky) has written a post offering a “sneak peak” of Exactly, a tool under development by the Nunn Center in partnership with AV Preserve, intended to bring digital preservation concepts of fixity directly to researchers working in oral history. Boyd notes: By the time ...

This week marked the release of the first issue of the DHCommons journal, “a new kind of publication for digital humanities projects.” DHCommons seeks to provide robust peer review of projects that are still in process, in the model of NINES and 18th Connect. The work of the journal builds upon what DHCommons, an initiative ...

Sheila A. Brennan (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) has published a post on her blog, Lot 49, discussing “Building Histories of the National Mall: A Guide to Creating a Digital Public History Project“. The Guide details the creation of the Histories of the National Mall project and website. As Brennan explains: For ...

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) has published the repository’s requirements specifications, containing the functional, legal, and business requirements for the project—from ingest to APIs to user interface and copyright. The repository links together and preserves both historical and contemporary data held by Irish institutions, providing a central internet access point and interactive multimedia tools. ...

Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) has drawn attention to a new resource from the Modern Language Association, “Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age: A White Paper on the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions.” Though intended as “a tool for thinking through a set of pressing questions for the MLA’s Committee ...

The Digital Koans blog highlights a new article in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, “Data Rights and Responsibilities: A Human Rights Perspective on Data Sharing” (Theresa L. Harris and Jessica M. Wyndham) explores data sharing through a human rights lens, leading to the formation of “a different set of problems, priorities, ...

In a post at the AHA blog, Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Initiatives Seth Denbo, outlines the AHA’s new guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship: The guidelines encourage departments to evaluate such work on its scholarly merits: “Work done by historians using digital methodologies or media for research, pedagogy, or communication should be evaluated for ...

JADH released the first issue of the Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities on September 2nd. From Editor-In-Chief Charles Muller’s introduction to the issue: In this issue we present eight articles that deal with various issues in Digital Humanities, authored by both local Japanese scholars and researchers from abroad. The articles in this ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released a recording of “Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective,” a presentation by Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University), Lisa Spiro (Rice University), and Xuemao Wang (University of Cincinnati) given at the Spring 2015 meeting. The presentation shares results from a Mellon-funded ...