A few weeks ago, I presented to the UNL DH community about a project that I’m beginning while a fellow at the CDRH’s Digital Scholarship Incubator. The project is an effort to utilize digital tools to visualize business and organizational records related to my dissertation on industrialization in small cities. During my talk, I noted […]
What does a critical data studies look like, and why do we care? Seven points for a critical approach to ‘big data.’ There is a need for a critical data studies “The benefits to society will be myriad, as big data becomes part of the solution to pressing global problems like addressing climate change, eradicating […]
Good things come to those who wait. Today we are officially launching the Londonmapper website, a project that I started working on following the completion of my PhD in 2011. Over the past 2 1/2 years we developed the scope of the project which aims to become a new Social Atlas of London, a project […]
Located in New York City, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is a nonprofit member services organization serving more than 260 libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage nonprofits in New York City and Westchester County. METRO has an almost 50-year tradition of providing a range of programs and services to its members, including grants, […]
The DLF seeks a summer intern to work in our Washington, DC office. We are celebrating 20 years of the DLF program and 15 years of Forums and are looking for someone to organize our archives and write a brief history of the DLF. Read Full Posting Here
JADH2014: Call for Papers “Bridging GLAM and Humanities through Digital Humanities” The deadline has been extended to 11:59PM (JST), 22 May 2014. The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its fourth annual conference, to be held at University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, September 19-21, 2014. http://conf2014.jadh.org/ The conference will feature posters, papers […]
The Research Data Consultant will work with Research and Informatics leadership to implement and advance the Libraries’ data curation services. The successful candidate will participate in research data management consultations, data curation activities, and the development of resources, documentation and instructional content about data curation. See Full Posting Here
In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map, just under three feet square, titled a “Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States.” Based on the population statistics gathered in the 1860 census, and certified by the superintendent of the Census Office, the […]
How Games Can Help With the Burden of Digitizing Archived Material The British Library warned: by 2020, legacy content will remain undigitized and in danger of becoming inaccessible to future generations. Universities, libraries, museums and archives own large amounts of undigitized material in the form of photographs, audio recordings and films that are at serious […]
May 9th, 2014 This post is part of a series that reflects on three years of research on sourcing and circulating scholarly communication on the open web. In the coming weeks we will share our discoveries, processes, and code developed through rapid prototyping and iterative design: the PressForward plugin for WordPress; the collaboratively-edited weekly publication Digital Humanities Now; and the experimental overlay Journal […]
