Alex Christie (University of Victoria), Andrew Pilsch (Arizona State University), Shawna Ross (Arizona State University- Polytechnic), and Katie Tanigawa (University of Victoria) released the Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities following the Modernist Studies Association Annual conference.  The manifesto offers strategies for critiquing methods and content, a framework for how modernists can create their own digital strategies: Modernists Digital Strategies should ...

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has shared a postprint pdf of a paper co-authored with Devin Higgins that “argues for thinking about library collections as Humanities data.” As Padilla writes in a blog post introducing their work: I think its important that we as librarians study and argue about our collections in a manner befitting ...

Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library) has shared the online pdf of the paper she co-wrote with Matthew Kirschenbaum (MITH) for the journal Book History, titled “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline.” Reflecting on her blog, Werner writes that:  Our review essay, “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies,” takes as its argument our belief that book historians ...

The October 2014 issue of code4lib Journal includes an article by Corey Davis (University of Victoria), “Archiving the Web: A Case Study from the University of Victoria.” From the abstract: The University of Victoria Libraries started archiving websites in 2013, and it quickly became apparent that many scholarly websites being produced by faculty, especially in the digital ...

October 15th marked the second annual “Día de las Humanidades Digitales” (Día HD), a Day of DH for digital humanists who work primarily in Spanish or Portuguese. The event, which consists of individuals blogging about their workday, aims to draw attention to digital humanities work in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. Ernesto ...

Archivist Eira Tansey (University of Cincinnati) has written a detailed trip report outlining her experience in the Digital Forensics course at the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Institute (HILT), taught by Kam Woods (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Porter Olsen (University of Maryland) of BitCurator. In addition to a day-by-day recap of the course and the lectures, ...

In her keynote to the 2014 United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) conference, held in Orlando, FL, at the end of September, Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) discussed the evolution of theses and dissertations to incorporate new forms, processes, and products of research, enabled by digital scholarship and pursued with the goal ...

Mia Ridge (Open University) announced that her edited volume, Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage is now available for purchase. “Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts of data. This book brings together for the first time the collected ...

metaLAB (Harvard University) has published several documents produced during Beautiful Data, a week-long workshop for art historians held this past summer. Describing the workshop and the documents, Matthew Battles, notes: “Although conceived as an engagement in digital-humanities ‘training,’ we thought quick-and-dirty tutorials in javascript and topic-modeling would be less useful than the chance to discover ways ...

Ben Schmidt (Northeastern University) has created an online tool that allows users to “investigate onscreen language in about 87,000 movies and TV shows, encompassing together over 600 million words.” Bookworm: Movies draws on a corpus from Open Subtitles and metadata from IMDb to chart changing language use in film and television dialogue, using the Bookworm ...

Peter Leonard (Yale University) presented a paper, “Mining Large Datasets for the Humanities” at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress in Lyon, France. The abstract states: This paper considers how libraries can support humanities scholars in working with large digitized collections of cultural material. Although disciplines such ...