In the Library with the Lead Pipe recently published “Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship,” by Juleah Swanson (University of Colorado Boulder), Ione Damasco (University of Dayton), Isabel Gonzalez-Smith (University of Illinois, Chicago), Dracine Hodges (the Ohio State University), Todd Honma (Pitzer College), and Azusa Tanaka (University of Washington). ...

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has written a post addressing a central concern in text analysis projects: how do you get the data you want, and how to do you make it usable? … more experienced Digital Humanists often have programmatic means of getting data and transforming it in such a way that it suits their needs. These ...

Harriet E. Green (University of Illinois) and Angela Courtney (Indiana University) authored an article “Beyond the Scanned Image: A Needs Assessment of Scholarly Users of Digital Collections” in the July 2015 issue of College & Research Libraries. The article “presents analysis of how humanities scholars use digital collections in their research and the ways in which digital ...

Digital Scholarship (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) has released the fifth version of Research Data Curation Bibliography. The Research Data Curation Bibliography includes over 350 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. For broader coverage of the digital curation literature, see ...

The Modern Language Association, along with Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), have announced the beta release of CORE, “a digital repository for MLA members to share and archive all forms of scholarly communication, from conference papers to syllabi, published articles to data sets.” CORE offers MLA members a persistent, ...

In a post from Owen Stephens (Open University), readers are provided with a step-by-step guide to using Google Sheets and the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) to generate direct links, Wing/Short Title Catalog (STC) numbers, and other information for titles in ESTC. Stephens manages the JISC-funded TELSTAR project at the Open University. Stephens builds on a post by Benjamin Armintor (Columbia ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has shared video of a presentation on a digital project for Greek epigraphy by Joshua D. Sosin (Duke University) given at the Spring 2015 meeting. The presentation, entitled “Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: More than Notes,” discusses the “Integrating Digital Epigraphies” project, which “involves building a set of services that align ...

The UCLA Digital Humanities program has released A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights outlining an approach to working with students on DH projects aligned with the values and principles upon which the program operates. Building on the 2011 DH Collaborators’ Bill of Rights, this statement specifically foregrounds the power differential among students and the faculty, ...

The University of Michigan’s digitalculturebooks has announced the publication of the seventh title in their Digital Humanities Series, Douglas Eyman’s Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. This title seeks to bring work from fields including composition and rhetoric, human computer interaction, media and new media studies, game studies, and others into a definition of digital rhetoric. ...

The current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (v. 9, no. 1) includes an article by Tomas Zahora, Constant J. Mews, David Squire (Monash University), and Dmitri Nikulin (Google) entitled “Deconstructing Bricolage: Interactive Online Analysis of Compiled Texts with Factotum.” From the abstract: Textual bricolage, the unacknowledged re-use of chunks of existing texts within a new composition, spans ...