The annual open DH Awards 2013 are now accepting nominations. Please nominate any resource you feel deserves to win in any of this year’s categories. Nominations will be open until 31 December 2013 (midnight GMT), voting will take place in January 2014. Read more here. .entry-content
Power in human societies derives from the ability to get people to act together. Armies, religions, governments, and businesses have dominated societies using weapons, beliefs, laws and money to exert collective effort. In modern societies, mass media have emerged as a similar organizing power.A new kind of collective organization, mediated by the internet, code and…
For some reason I can’t explain, I have had for many years a very keen interest in crime fiction, especially French crime fiction written since the 1950s, roughly. Some of my favorite authors are Léo Malet, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Sébastien Japrisot and Didier Daeninckx. And it is not for no reason that I was drawn to…
The National Archives seeks volunteers to tag data in First World War Unit Diaries. See Operation War Diary here.
On Friday, December 6 from 12:00 – 1:00pm Eastern (9:00 – 10:00am Pacific), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion under the hashtag #digped to discuss the process, practice, and theories of grading. Read full post here.
Crowdsourcing is often approached as a full-attention activity, but it can also be used for applications so small that people perform them almost effortlessly. What possibilities are afforded by pursuing low-effort crowdsourcing? Low-effort crowdsourcing is possible through a mix of low-granularity tasks, unobtrusive input methods, and an appropriate setting. Exploring the possibilities of low-effort crowdsourcing, we…
We set out to create a free and easy‐to‐use plugin for WordPress that creates Braille texts from WordPress posts, allowing any WordPress site to share the products of their text‐based projects with this often‐neglected audience of readers. Originally, we planned to extend the use of Anthologize—a free and open source plugin for WordPress that currently…
Radical changes in the information landscape are transforming traditional academic roles and the roles of libraries within the academy. This program prepares a new generation of librarians, scientists, and scholars for work at the intersections of scholarship, teaching and librarianship in the emerging research environment. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows in Academic Libraries work on projects that…
Balsamo also describes roles for artists, social scientists, engineers, computer scientists, and physical scientists, but it is the humanist’s role that interests me here. Briefly put: to historicize, interpret, and critique. It’s a fair description inasmuch as that is what humanists tend to do in any context so it makes sense that they might serve…
Proclamations like ‘kids need to learn to code!’ may be accurate but, without some context and conceptual unpacking, they can be rather unhelpful. Thankfully, fellow DMLcentral contributor Ben Williamson has done a great job of problematising the current preoccupation with coding by asking questions like: “What assumptions, practices and kinds of thinking are privileged by learning to code?…