Resource: Basic Text Mining in R
A useful guide that provides steps for text mining in R for a PC or a Mac. Read more here.
Author: Colleen Nugent
Opportunity: Libraries as Cultural/Tech Developers: Two Great New Residencies
New opportunities announced at the Metropolitan Library Council and the NYPL Labs. The Metropolitan Library Council will award a fellowship beginning September 15, 2016 and the NYPL Labs will award two residencies by March 11, 2016. Read more here.
Editors’ Choice: NexGen Omeka: Classic to S, the Next Generation of Omeka
In November 2015, I represented the Omeka team at IMLS’s Focus conference held in New Orleans to share the latest developments in the Omeka software family. Below are my slides, and the notes from my talk. I am here representing the Omeka team at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and we […]
Editors’ Choice: The Instability of Gender
Ted Underwood and David Bamman 1500-word abstract of a paper delivered Sat, Dec 9th, at MLA 2016, in a panel with Deidre Lynch and Andrew Piper. By visualizing course evaluations, Ben Schmidt has reminded us how subtly (and irrationally) descriptions of real people are shaped by gendered expectations. Men are praised for being funny, and […]
CfP: Web Science 2016 Conference
The Web Science 2016 conference seeks papers for the field of Web Science. “The Web Science 2016 conference will take place in Hannover, Germany, from May 22-25, 2016. It welcomes participation from all disciplines including, but not limited to, art, computer and information sciences, communication, economics, humanities, informatics, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology, […]
Announcement: DH Awards 2015
Nominations are now being accepted for DH Awards 2015. Read more here.
Editors’ Choice: How Do Machines See? My Graduate Seminar this Semester
I’m really excited about the course I’m teaching this semester. DIKULT303: Digital Media Aesthetics is a graduate seminar with a topic that changes from year to year, and this year it will be about machine vision, my current obsession, and a topic I think is going to be immensely important over the next decades. The […]
Editors’ Choice: Some Problems with GLAM data on GitHub
Your institution likely already has some web form or email address, attached to some type of internal workflow (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), for ingesting public feedback about the content or presentation of your collections information. GitHub repositories have a light issue tracking system turned on by default, the idea being that any GitHub user can quickly post up […]
Resource: Making Live-Tweeting Easier with Noter Live
Kevin Marks has created a web-based tool that helps those live-tweeting conferences. Lee Skallerup Bessette writes about Noter Live here.
Opportunity: Apply Now for Doing Digital History 2016
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has opened applications for its summer Digital History summer institute: “Are you a mid-career American historian interested in digital history training for novices? Apply now for one of 25 available spots for the Doing Digital History: 2016 summer institute to be held July 11- 22, 2016 […]