The Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress houses over 225 manuscripts; most of them in Hebrew but with a fair sampling of manuscripts also written in cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish. It is a highly diverse collection, dating from the 11th to early 20th centuries and drawn from Jewish communities throughout […]
A series of factors influenced the unfolding of the labor movement. The number of members in each organization translated into the organization’s strength and influence. This visualization shows the number of members in each type of labor organization. The “Writers and Journalists” and the “Socialist Party,” for example, had the most members. Given the strength of […]
Twice a year I indulge my meta-disciplinary sweet tooth: once to look at who’s submitting what to ADHO’s annual digital humanities conference, and once to look at which pieces get accepted (see the rest of the series). This post presents my first look at DH2016 conference submissions, the data for which I scraped from ConfTool during the open peer […]
From the ad: The Darrell W. Krueger Library at Winona State University seeks an energetic, proactive, knowledgeable, and innovative person for the tenure track position of Web and Digital Services Librarian. Read full ad here.
Hi everyone, I would like to introduce the project I am developing now at Michigan State Univeristy. I am currently working collaboratively with Andrew Barsom, a fellow doctoral student in the Department of History at MSU, on the Baptismal Record Database for Slave Societies (BARDSS) project. This online database, which is part of MSU’s Slave […]
Digitization and archiving of historical materials is an intensely political process. While technical aspects are still crucial to having a functioning online resource, we must realize that cultural heritage informatics projects are done for specific reasons. I’d like to elaborate on one of my favorite, if still partially flawed digital resources: the SABC Truth and […]
Collaboration is widely considered to be both synonymous with and essential to Digital Humanities (DH). This is because one person can rarely possess all of the (inter)disciplinary and technical knowledge needed to implement many DH projects. In DH research literature, in grey literature and on scholarly blogs the collaborative nature of DH is often evidenced by […]
Dave Thompson recently gave a talk about long term planning and project management for libraries and archives that are digitizing their collections. View the presentation here.
This fall, Harvard has been rolling out videos from the 2015 edition of Computer Science 50 (CS50), the university’s introductory coding course designed for majors and non-majors alike. Taught by David Malan, a perennially popular professor (you’ll immediately see why), the one-semester course (taught mostly in C) combines courses typically known elsewhere as “CS1” and “CS2.” Even if […]
The 2nd International Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) conference will take place August 3-5th 2016 at Durham University, U.K. This conference will provide an outstanding opportunity for attendees to examine the role of mixed methods in applied social research. Read full CFP here.
