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Resource: In pursuit of democracy

This story looks at every time the word ‘democracy’ was said or written into the Congressional Record since 1880. Each dot represents five speeches or remarks. Bright dots are one that argue American democracy is under threat. Americans have always argued about what it means to strive toward these democratic ideals. This pursuit of democracy […]

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Resource: A Wretched Generator

I set out to write my own Wretched-style game. My first attempt was based on the Franklin Expedition, and how the demise of those men is captured in Inuit oral tradition. I wrote my card prompts, I thought about how the game might end, I imagined what their colonial mindset when confronted with survival and […]

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Resource: It’s Time to Historicize DH: A Review of Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001: A World Elsewhere

This review of Claire Warwick’s Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001: A World Elsewhere (2024) praises the monograph’s unique value to the digital humanities as a comprehensive reconstruction of 1990s attitudes and practices regarding cyberspace. Warwick’s justification for her hybrid methodology, which combines history, analysis, thick description, and autoethnography, is discussed, as well as […]

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Resource: Digital Accessibility Framework Town Halls

Accessible Community recently released the Digital Accessibility Framework for public review. This project aims to expand our collective understanding of the requirements for accessible digital content, considering the impact of emerging technologies and engaging with broad user groups to predict their full impact. A complex project like this needs wide engagement in order to get […]

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Resource: Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides

Over the past few years, the development of excellent self-paced tutorials and training materials for undertaking digital scholarship and data science in libraries have proliferated online. For library professionals who are relatively new to this area however, it can be hard to know where to begin! Without knowing a little bit about the context of […]

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Resource: The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online | Open Culture

Ear­ly lit­er­a­ture shows us a range of dif­fer­ent atti­tudes, where ani­mals are treat­ed as equals, with char­ac­ter traits both good and bad, or as noble mes­sen­gers of a god or gods rather than live­stock, mov­ing scenery, or exploitable resources. The most lav­ish of them all, the Aberdeen Bes­tiary, which dates from around 1200, was once […]

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Resource: Digital Humanities Slack!

The Digital Humanities Slack is a set of informal, connected chat rooms for the digital humanities and related interests, with over 50 “channels” (chat rooms) devoted to specific topics such as DH teaching, coding, library work, and conferences. Come join us! Absolutely no DH background is needed, and we specifically have channels for supporting students […]