From the announcement: National History Day (NHD) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) announce the launch of the voting platform for 100 Leaders in World History (100leaders.org), a project sponsored by Kenneth E. Behring. The site includes profiles of 100 leaders in world history selected by a panel of historians,…

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From the announcement: We’re excited to announce two new webinars based on our recent popular blog series covering some of our favorite software development practices. Join Karen Coombs as she walks you through a collection of tools designed to close communication gaps throughout the development process. Registration for both 1-hour webinars is free and now…

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The Islandora Foundation is proud to announce the arrival of a new module into our stack: Islandora Pathauto, created and contributed by Rosemary Lefaive (who you may remember from past kudos). This simple but extremely handy little module allows the creation of more human-readable or SEO-friendly URLs for your Fedora objects by exposing Islandora objects to…

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From the reminder: The registration deadline for the Fall 2014 CNI member meeting is this FRIDAY, November 7. If you have not registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Information about registration & accommodations is available online: http://www.cni.org/go/fall-2014-accommodations/ If you have questions about meeting registration, please contact Jackie Eudell…

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Feminisms in the Digital Age: Transnational Activism in Germany and Beyond is a digital lecture series that explores the political impact of feminist activisms in the 21st century. In five lectures and a concluding roundtable, we interrogate the digital interface of transnational protest movements and local activism in feminist politics. The lectures take contemporary German…

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Neatline, a digital storytelling tool from the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library, anticipates this week’s MediaCommons discussion question in three clear ways. But before I get to that, let me tell you what Neatline is. It’s a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps, image annotations, and narrative sequences from collections of documents and artifacts, and…

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On his blog, Douglas A. Boyd offers a test of the Zoom H-5 digital audio recorder using the standard X/Y microphone module, an external (XLR) lavaliere microphone, and the optional MSH-6 Mid Side Stereo and XYH-6 microphone modules. Source: Testing 1-2-3: Zoom H-5 Microphone Test

[This—more or less—is the text of a keynote talk I delivered last week in Atlanta, at the 2014 DLF Forum: the annual gathering of the Digital Library Federation. DLF is one among several stellar programs at CLIR, the Council on Library and Information Resources, where I have the honor to serve as a Distinguished Presidential…

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