The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have announced the release of OPenn: Primary Digital Resources Available to Everyone, a site dedicated to making high quality digitized cultural heritage material freely available: “OPenn is a major step in the Libraries’ strategic initiative to embrace open data, with all images and metadata on this site available as free cultural works ...

A new volume in the University of Michigan Press’s Digital Humanities series has been published. Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning, edited by Jack Dougherty and Tennyson O’Donnell (Trinity College), is now freely available on the web (as a download or web edition) under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license, and ...

The Code4Lib Journal Special Issue on Diversity in Library Technology (Issue 28) includes several articles of interest to the digital humanities and libraries community, such as: Feminism and the Future of Library Discovery by Bess Sadler and Chris Bourg How to Hack it as a Working Parent by Jaclyn Bedoya, Margaret Heller, Christina Salazar, May ...

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, a new book edited by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb is available from the American Library Assocation. The book, published in collaboration with the ACRL Literatures in English Section, features a “collection of essays focusing on the role of the subject specialist in ...

Brian Sarnacki (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) has created a tutorial for beginners interested in using the visualization tool Gephi (Mac users having trouble with Gephi should start here). Sarnacki provides a sample CSV file that lists bankers in Grand Rapids in 1902, and walks through the process of prepping data, importing the CSV file into Gephi, ...

The new issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly includes an article by Deena Engel and Marion Thain (NYU) on “Textual Artifacts and their Digital Representations: Teaching Graduate Students to Build Online Archives.” From the article abstract: Co-teaching a digital archives course (ENGL-GA.2971) for graduate students in the English Department allowed us to bring together our expertise in both research ...

Ammon Shepherd (University of Virginia) has shared the code and instructions for batch watermarking and OCR-ing images. During the course of archival research, Shepherd needed a way to extract text from images of book pages and to add watermarks indicating the source of an image. As a result, he created a script – both a ...

Amelia Abreu (University of Washington) has written an article in The New Inquiry, “The Collection and the Cloud,” that asks “Where are the future archives?” Abreu argues that “Contemporary technologies have given us platforms that look a lot like personal archives, yet the archival functionality of platforms feels like an empty promise.” She goes on ...

ACRL has announced the publication of Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers, edited by Maria Bonn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Mike Furlough (HathiTrust). Divided into three sections (what, how, and why libraries publish) and featuring a redoubtable roster of contributors, the volume includes information on collaboration, publishing agreements, “archival APIs,” data curation, ...

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is celebrating Fair Use Week to “highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain these doctrines.” The ARL developed and shared a Fair Use Fundamentals Infographic that “explains what fair use is, why it is important, who uses fair use, and ...

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has shared his materials on using OpenRefine from a workshop on Data Preparation for Digital Humanities Research. OpenRefine is a tool for cleaning and preparing data, which Padilla explains is a significant amount of the digital humanities research process. Elizabeth Grumbach (Texas A&M University) and Jennifer Hecker (University of Texas) have ...