January 2014 saw the launch of Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3), which was the first major disciplinary or field-specific shift toward open access. Considerable numbers of journals and publishers are moving to embrace open access, exploring a variety of business models, but SCOAP3 represents a significant and new partnership between libraries,…
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its Communications fellowship. Working on a small team, the fellow will write news releases, blog posts and announcements relevant to ADHO, its constituent organizations, and the broader digital humanities community; monitor and update ADHO’s social media presence; maintain its web site; help to develop and…
The Social Simulation group from the Computer Applications & Engineering Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is offering a PhD studentship position on Computer Science available in the ERC-project “EPNet: Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics” http://www.roman-ep.net/epnet/. The project involves an exciting opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary…
Calling all researchers, scholars, trailblazers and software developers! British Library Labs wants to work with you to bring your innovative and transformative ideas for using our digital collections to life! Submit your project idea by Tuesday 22 April 2014 (midnight BST). UPDATE: The deadline for entries has now been extended to Wednesday 30 April 2014…
From Miriam Posner’s Blog: After I wrote my original “How Did They Make That?” post, on some common types of DH projects, I got to thinking about whether there might be ways to help people reverse-engineer digital projects on their own. I used a talk I gave at CUNY as an excuse to think of…
The recent issue of J19 dedicated a section to “Evidence and the Archive” without engaging at all with much of the work done in the digital humanities. This absence is of profound importance to me, because I believe that this kind of lack of collaboration inhibits the critical work humanists can undertake when considering the…
At the end of the first season of Downton Abbey in a scene that is exemplary of the series’ greatness, the Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) exclaims that “Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an HG Wells novel.” The Countess is responding to the unsettling arrival of the telephone, only months…
Developers from the New York Times have released some open source software meant for displaying and managing large digital content collections, and doing so client-side, in the browser with JS. Developed for journalism, this has some obvious potential relevance to the business of libraries too, right? Large collections (increasingly digital), that’s what we’re all about,…
Registration is now open for the next RECODE workshop ”Institutional support for open access to research data” in which we aim to develop a set of policy recommendations that provide support for institutions involved in making open access to research data possible. The workshop takes place ahead of the LIBER 43rd Annual Conference RESEARCH LIBRARIES…
In this article I want to explain how a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) works by implementing it in Python step by step. At the end we will compare the results to the more convenient Python PCA()classes that are available through the popular matplotlib and scipy libraries and discuss how they differ. The main purposes of…