Resource: Using Vine to Disseminate Library Information
Antony Groves has published a short guide on using Vine to disseminate library information. Read the full post here.
Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Report: How Recent Digital Copyright Laws Affected Libraries in Europe
Benjamin White lectures on the question of “Are digital laws making or breaking libraries?” Watch the full thing here.
Report: CopyTalk Webinar on Copyright Court Rulings
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.
Editors’ Choice: Gaps in the Map
I set out this summer to write a column for Places on mapping, informed by all the background work I did to develop my new “Maps as Media” grad studio. Today, my editors mercifully informed me that what I’ve written is not an article, but a pedagogical prospectus. Doh! I sort-of suspected that. Re-reading the piece again, after about […]
Report: Open Access Monitoring
This study was commissioned by Universities UK’s Open Access Co-ordination Group in response to a recommendation of the Finch Group in its second report in 2013 that reliable indicators should be gathered on key features of the transition to open access (OA) in the UK. Read full post here.
Resource: Music Genre and Spotify Metadata
I wanted to explore Spotify’s metadata in a way that would model the interpretive messiness of generic categories. To do so, I built a program that bounces through Spotify’s metadata to produce multiple readings of the idea of genre in relation to a particular artist. Spotify offers a fairly robust API, and there are a number of […]
Job: VAP in Digital Media Studies Mount Holyoke College
The Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor of digital media studies, beginning July 1, 2016. This position is a new category called an Innovation Hire, a four year position that invites the candidate to help shape the College’s curriculum in new directions. Read full post here.
Job: Digital Projects Developer at Lewis & Clark College
Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon invites applications for the Digital Projects Developer position at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. Lewis & Clark is a selective liberal arts college with graduate programs in Education, Counseling Psychology, and Law. Read full post here.
Editors’ Choice: The Arithmetic of Concepts
Last year I wrote a review of Peter de Bolla’s extraordinary book, The Architecture of Concepts: the Historical Formation of Human Rights (Fordham, 2013)… Since he wrote this book, de Bolla has spear-headed the at Cambridge, where he leads an interdisciplinary group of scholars devoted to precisely this project: developing a more sophisticated and rigorously theorized […]
Job: Digital Scholarship Programmer/Analyst at Northeastern University
From the announcement: Northeastern University Libraries are pleased to announce a new position as part of our growing research and development activities in the fields of digital humanities and digital libraries. The Library is undertaking an ambitious agenda in support of emerging digital humanities and quantitative social sciences research efforts at Northeastern. With the launch […]