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RESOURCE: Text on Maps Help Guide

Sep

22

2023

Text on Maps has collected pieces of text from 57,000 georeferenced maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection and made them searchable with mapKurator, allowing users to search within the contents of text on maps, rather than just the metadata. From the site: “While library patrons have become used to searching books via their content ...

RESOURCE: Scholarly API Cookbook

May

8

2023

The Scholarly API Cookbook is an open online book containing short scholarly API code examples (i.e., “recipes”) that demonstrate how to work with various scholarly web service APIs. It is part of the University of Alabama Libraries efforts to support Research Data Services and covers a variety of APIs, like Wikidata, Chronicaling America, and U.S. ...

RESOURCE: Jupyter notebooks for digital humanities

May

8

2023

Jupyter notebooks for digital humanities is a list compiled by Quinn Dombrowski of Jupyter notebooks covering research, course materials, learning python, as well as specific forms of analysis. There are notebooks available in English, German, Spanish and French. The list was started in 2019, but was most recently updated in April 2023, making this a ...

RESOURCE: LOC By The People Transcription Datasets

May

8

2023

The Library of Congress By The People project has released two new datasets from its crowdsourced transcription campaigns, the correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz and the notebooks of Frederick Hockley. The O’Keeffe/Stieglitz dataset includes over 500 letters they wrote between 1929-1947 to their friend Henwar Rodakiewicz, a documentary filmmaker. The digital collection of ...

RESOURCE: Digital Labor Syllabus by Miriam Posner

Apr

21

2023

This semester, Dr. Miriam Posner (UCLA) is teaching a digital humanities undergraduate course, DH150: “Digital Labor.” Her open syllabus offers a thoughtful response to current issues and conversations at the intersections of technology, power, gender, and race, and leveraging video storytelling, to explore ways in which we as workers can regain agency in the ever ...

RESOURCE: Digital Holocaust Memory and Education

Apr

21

2023

Digital Holocaust Memory has recently co-created a collection of recommendations for digital interventions in Holocaust memory and education. They have “worked with more than 80 representatives from a diverse range of academic disciplines, Holocaust institutions across the world, and wider GLAM, creative and technical professionals” to create the collection, presented in multiple reports. From the ...

RESOURCE: Counter Narratives in Practice

Apr

7

2023

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage at the Rare Book School is launching “Counter Narratives in Practice,” a podcast series about multicultural heritage collections, storytelling, and representation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and beyond. The Mellon fellows worked in three groups: the Pacific Time Zone Group, Central Time Zone Group, ...

RESOURCE: (In)Accessibility and the Technocratic Library

Mar

23

2023

The most recent special issue of First Monday, the online open-access journal devoted to studies of the Internet, is entitled “This feature has been disabled: Critical intersections of disability and information studies.” One contribution to this special issue, “(In)accessibility and the technocratic library: Addressing institutional failures in library adoption of emerging technologies,” focuses on the ...

RESOURCE: Making Sense of Digital Humanities

Mar

23

2023

Making Sense of Digital Humanities by Julian Chambliss and Ellen Moll (both Michigan State University) is now available in a multitude of formats (an online Pressbooks edition, as an eBook, PDF, XML, or ODF). From the introduction: Our experience as teacher-scholars engaged with DH in and out of the classroom affords us some sense of the ...

RESOURCE: Poised at the Crossroads: Preservation and Public Access to Humanities Research

Mar

23

2023

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has shared a talk from Sara Palmer and Lois Overbeck (both Emory University), entitled “Poised at the Crossroads: Preservation and Public Access to Humanities Research.” From the video description: Large, long-term humanities projects leave a wake of research that may become inaccessible or lost when publication is complete. Following ...

RESOURCE: 23 Linked Data Things

Mar

9

2023

23 Linked Data Things is a resource developed by Minitex, a collaboration between the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is a self-paced program, with each “thing” (from “Defining Linked Data” to “SPARQL Basics” to “Ethics of Linked Data”) containing readings, activities, and the option for a certificate of ...