Jill Hurst-Wahl wrote a post on the Digitization 101 blog about the interactive Fair Use tool developed at the University of Minnesota. The University reminds potential users that: [T]his tool can help you organize your thoughts around the issues, although it does NOT tell you whether a proposed use is fair or not, and does NOT provide ...

Ethan Watrall (Associate Director of Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Michigan State University) recently gave a talk at the HumLab at Umeå University in Sweden, in which he discusses MSU’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative. In “Methods and Models for Building Capacity in Digital Cultural Heritage,” Watrall differentiates the term “cultural heritage informatics” from “digital ...

The Library Publishing Coalition has released the Library Publishing Directory (PDF and EPUB), which “provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions ...

Volume 2, Issue 2 of the Journal of Digital Humanities (JDH) examines communities of practice, which the JDH editors define as “socially constructed groups that form around shared interests or crafts, [and] often generate forms of tacit knowledge that circulate informally.” The issue features work of interest to dh+lib readers, such as “MediaNOLA: A Digital ...

The digitalculturebooks imprint of the University of Michigan Press has released Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki (Heidelberg University of Education) and Jack Dougherty (Trinity College). The volume is born-digital and open access, and used CommentPress to facilitate open peer review. Readers can view the final online version, the CommentPress version, ...

At the recent International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Christine L. Borgman of the University of California, Los Angeles, delivered a keynote presentation, “Digital Scholarship and Digital Libraries: Past, Present, and Future.” Drawing on materials from her forthcoming book Big Data, Little Data, No Data, the keynote traced transformations in scholarly communication such ...