As I typed the title for this post, I couldn’t help but think “Well, yeah. What else would the library be?” Instead of changing the title, however, I want to actually unpack what we mean when we say “research partner,” especially in the context of research data management support. In the most traditional sense, libraries […]
I have been seeing an enormous amount of momentum in the library industry toward “linked data”, often in the form of a fairly ambitious collective project to rebuild much of our infrastructure around data formats built on linked data. I think linked data technology is interesting and can be useful. But I have some concerns about how it […]
This is the first post in Data Praxis, a new series edited by Thomas Padilla. Data Praxis highlights a range of perspectives on the practice of digitally inflected research, pedagogy, curation, and collection building and augmentation. Topics span methods and tools in the context of research questions and/or exploratory trajectories, and extend to consider reflections on […]
The #transformDH conference and a THATCamp took place on October 2-3 in Maryland. Moya Bailey has provided a recap of the events. Read full post here.
Humanists know the subjects we study are complex. So on the rare occasions when we describe them with numbers at all, we tend to proceed cautiously. Maybe too cautiously. Distant readers have spent a lot of time, for instance, just convincing colleagues that it might be okay to use numbers for exploratory purposes. But the […]
Walt Disney Studios is looking for a digital archivist to build, organize and maintain the Walt Disney Animation Studio’s digital production archive. Read the full posting here.
LITA is offering an online course on Personal Digital Archiving. Registration closes October 6th. Read the full post here.
Antony Groves has published a short guide on using Vine to disseminate library information. Read the full post here.
Benjamin White lectures on the question of “Are digital laws making or breaking libraries?” Watch the full thing here.
Corynne McSherry, a legal scholar with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has a talk up on CopyTalk about recent copyright cases. Listen to the talk here.
