The Code4Lib conference is wrapping up today in Portland, Oregon. To help keep track of all the tools and projects mentioned in the conference tweets, Ed Summers (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) experimented with making a web app that “will watch the Twitter stream for #c4l15 tweets, and keep track of which URLs people ...

The Library of Congress (LC) and OCLC Research have released the white paper, “Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC.” The paper, written by Carol Jean Godby (OCLC) and Ray Denenberg (LC), serves as an executive summary, published in advance of a “more detailed technical analysis that ...

Initiated by the Soundbox Project at Duke University, Provoke! is an online collection of digital projects in sound studies that “creates a home for creative-critical projects by makers, documentary artists, and sound scholars whose work presses at the boundaries of scholarship.” Designed to “privilege the auditory experience,” editors Darren Mueller, Mary Caton Lingold, and Whitney Trettien ...

The International Conference on Digital Preservation has shared iPres 2014: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Preservation under a CC BY 3.0 unported license. iPres 2014 was held October 6-10, in Melbourne, Australia. A preface to the proceedings stated that the conference “was structured around two key strands – research and innovative practice. The purpose ...

General Editors Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edward’s University), Matthew K. Gold (CUNY), Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University), and Jentery Sayers (University of Victoria) have announced Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments. The project is “an open-access, curated collection of downloadable, reusable, and remixable pedagogical resources for humanities scholars interested in the intersections ...

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication has published a special issue: Library Publishing, featuring selected papers from the 2014 Library Publishing Forum and three practice articles. In their editorial, guest editors Stephanie Davis-Kahl (Illinois Wesleyan University) and Melanie Schlosser (Ohio State University) write: “The issue, in its entirety, provides a current picture of the range of programs ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has shared “Digital Scholarship Centers: Trends And Good Practice,” the product of an April 2014 meeting that discussed “varying models of supporting digital scholarship in higher education, focusing on those that involve partnerships with, or a strong role for, libraries and information technology units.” The report seeks to draw ...

David McClure (freelance developer) has published a visualization of the corpus of the Humanist listserv. The network analysis uses Textplot and d3 to synthesize the 12 million words that appeared on the listserv from 1987-2014. In a corresponding post, McClure describes the project an effort to uncover “some kind of broad, diachronic shift in semantic ...

Anna Kijas (University of Connecticut) shares her experience using Ruby and Omeka’s Neatline plugin to add geocoded information to her Documenting Teresa Carreño project. The tutorial discusses how to use a Ruby geocoding script to geocode data as Well Known Text, which is required for Neatline. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a cooperation between Susan ...

Issue 7 (“Reaching Out, Opting In”) of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is now available. The issue contains work on learning TEI, interoperable scholarly editions, design methodology, as well as an article by Sarah L. Pfannenschmidt and Tanya E. Clement entitled, “Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Suggestions and Strategies for the Text Encoding Initiative.” The ...

Owen Stephens (Open University) has written a post sharing the materials for his British Library course, Working with Data. The course is part of the Digital Scholarship Training Programme aimed at cross-training British Library staff. The program’s offerings are “designed to be introductory and are aimed at ‘Intelligent Novices’, that is, colleagues who have heard ...