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CFParticipation: Section 1201 | U.S. Copyright Office

Several copyright exemptions relevant to educational fair use and online learning are up for comment at the US Copyright Office. See below to read the exemptions and comment. The United States Copyright Office is conducting the sixth triennial rulemaking proceeding under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 1201, which provides that the Librarian […]

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CFParticipation: Programming for Humanists at TAMU

From the course description: This Spring, 2015, the Programming4Humanists course at Texas A&M University will offer a more in-depth view of XSLT than covered in previous courses, focusing on it for four 2-hour classes.  Participants will learn to change an archive of TEI documents into multiple formats: XML (i.e., when changes need to be made […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Machines in the Valley Digital History Project

I am excited to finally release the digital component of my dissertation, Machines in the Valley. My dissertation, Machines in the Valley, examines the environmental, economic, and cultural conflicts over suburbanization and industrialization in California’s Santa Clara Valley–today known as Silicon Valley–between 1945 and 1990. The high technology sector emerged as a key component of economic […]

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CFP: Digitorium

From the announcement: We are delighted to invite proposals for Digitorium 2015, the inaugural Digital Humanities conference at the University of Alabama. We seek proposals on Digital Humanities work from researchers, practitioners, and graduate students which showcase innovative ways in which digital methods have brought scholarship and scholarly communities to life, whether locally or globally. […]

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CFP: DHSI Colloquium

From the announcement: Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Colloquium, to be held in June 2015 at the University of Victoria. Open to all attendees, the DHSI Colloquium offers an opportunity to present research and projects within an engaging, collegial atmosphere. Submissions are peer-reviewed, with participants subsequently invited to contribute to […]

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CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference

From the announcement: The Keystone Digital Humanities Conference will be held in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, July 22-24, 2015. We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Miriam Posner, Coordinator and Core Faculty of the Digital Humanities Program at UCLA, will be presenting the […]

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Resource: From Paper Maps to the Web: A DIY Digital Maps Primer

From the tutorial: I was invited to the National Library of Colombia’s 2nd Digital Book Week as a speaker and to give a workshop on digital mapping tools. I thought it would be useful to share that workshop since it encompasses a lot of different processes and tools that make digital cartography today very accessible. […]

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Editors’ Choice: Hearing the Past

What follows is our draft chapter for ‘Seeing the Past‘, a colloquium hosted by Kevin Kee at Brock University. The chapter will eventually be published in ‘Seeing the Past: Augmented Reality and Computer Vision in History’ http://kevinkee.ca/seeing-the-past/book-abstract/ Comments welcome. Hearing the Past – S Graham, S Eve, C Morgan, A Pantos This volume is about seeing […]

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Editors’ Choice: Speak to the Eyes: The History and Practice of Information Visualization

[Posted here, on my personal website, per the allowance of the publication agreement, is my  article, co-authored with Lily Pregill (@technelilly) for  Art Documentation (Vol. 33, Fall 2014). If for some reason you cite this, please use the citation at the bottom of the article. You can also view a PDF version, but it lacks color […]