Adeline Koh’s (Richard Stockton College) article in the Journal of Hybrid Pedagogy, “Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview,” outlines several DH projects that can be implemented in primarily undergraduate institutions, including “less well-funded institutions [that] might not find it as easy to commit to providing the frameworks to build successful digital humanities projects.” ...

Victor Powell has released CSV Fingerprints, a tool for spotting errors in CSV files, such as instances “when the data itself has a comma in it.” As Powell describes, The idea is to provide a birdseye view of the file without too much distracting detail. The idea is similar to Tufte’s Image Quilts…a qualitative view, ...

The University of Michigan Press’s digitalculturebooks imprint has published a new title by Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State University): Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field. The text “explores how digital technologies and new media are changing the nature of research, teaching, and learning in the humanities.” By examining the boundary work of constructing, expanding, and ...

The latest issue (Vol. 127, No. 1, Summer 2014) of the journal Representations (University of California Press) features a special forum on the concept of “search,” with contributions from Lisa Gitelman, Frederic Kaplan, Leah Price, Kent Puckett, Daniel Rosenberg, and Ted Underwood. Although the journal requires a subscription for access, Ted Underwood has posted a preprint of his article, ...

The latest issue of D-Lib magazine includes a piece by Lisa Gregory and Stephanie Williams, of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, addressing their recent work as a service hub for the Digital Public Library of America. “On Being a Hub: Some Details on Providing Metadata for the Digital Public Library of America,” D-Lib Magazine ...

A new journal, the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (JDMDH), recently published its inaugural issue. JDMDH is an open access peer-reviewed quarterly journal “concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities, with tools provided by computing such as data visualisation, information retrieval, statistics, text mining by publishing scholarly work ...

The Library of Congress (LC) has issues its Recommended Format Specifications for 2014-2015 for analog and digital formats, which are grouped into six categories: Textual Works and Musical Compositions Still Image Works Audio Works Moving Image Works Software and Electronic Gaming and Learning Datasets/Databases In addition to guiding LC’s acquisition and preservation efforts, the recommendations ...

A webinar from Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler, Exhibits Coordinator at the University of Florida, offers a concise overview of creating digital exhibits. The recording covers the basics of creating exhibits (both print and online), when online exhibits are appropriate, how to create concise and descriptive labels, and UX/UI tips based on data gathered from Florida’s exhibits. dh+lib ...