We entered into this project with the notion of vignette as hybrid genre and much of my effort to classify genre within our corpus has been an attempt to bring to the surface some of these harder to classify genres. In an effort, then, to consider the hybrid nature of the vignette, I’ve been attempting […]
There’s a new volume on digital archaeology coming out via the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future. Bill Caraher let me have an advance copy of it. Instead of reading it and writing a review, I thought I’d do a distant reading instead, as befits digital […]
From the post: DARIAH recently released a report on open access publishing of research data in the humanities. It is part of DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale project (HaS). As an output of work package 7 the report is a first step in the design process of an Open Humanities Data Platform, which will be the […]
It’s been just over a year since I left my job to become an independent scholar/freelance writer/humanist at large/wow this terminology is bad. I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s possible and not possible in this gig. One huge shift was rethinking how I got access to all those library databases that make my research […]
From the ad: Rice University’s Center for Research Computing and Humanities Research Center will award one postdoctoral fellowship in digital scholarship focused on humanities and qualitative social sciences. The fellow will develop a research project in digital humanities and/or digital qualitative social sciences; consult with the humanistic research community engaged in digital scholarship projects at […]
The University of Kansas seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in Digital Humanities. From the ad: This position is a full-time, academic year appointment. The accomplished digital humanist will participate in the Humanities Program teaching, including established courses at the introductory level (e.g., HUM 110 Introduction to Humanities), as well as working with the Institute for […]
In May 2015, Alex Gil wrote a compelling piece on minimal computing and “producing our own scholarship ourselves.” There, he made the following remark, “I prefer to approach minimal computing around the question ‘What do we need?’” Here, I want to follow Gil’s piece by outlining my own, admittedly unpolished observations on the topic. The emerging […]
[This is an adaptation of the talk I gave for the 2016 Eleanor H. Boheim Lecture at Marquette University, sponsored by the Association of Marquette University Women on September 21, 2016.] In August 2015, Georgetown University President John DeGioia sent an email to the university community announcing the rededication of Mulledy Hall. In that email he pointed […]
From the post: OCLC and the Internet Archive today announced the results of a year-long cooperation to ensure the future of purl.org. The organizations have worked together to build a new service hosted by the Internet Archive that will manage the persistent URLs and sub-domain redirections for purl.org, purl.com and purl.net. Read full announcement here.
Open access publishing has been the subject of a great deal of discussion, and more than its fair share of anxiety in the academy, and in the social sciences in particular. These discussions have raised questions about everything from maintaining the quality of scholarly publications, to recognizing the value of scholars’ labor, to inevitable concerns […]
