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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

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Job: Digital Scholarship Developer at University of Texas at San Antonio

Uses technical knowledge and skills around digital scholarship methods and technologies to achieve Libraries digital scholarship goals, foregrounding technical praxis, co-creation, and community engagement. Oversees the digital scholarship project lab and staff. Develops and maintains applications, platforms, and tools that support digital scholarship projects and initiatives using extensive technical skills and knowledge of digital scholarship […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of Cincinnati

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Research & Instruction, the Scholarly Communications Librarian is responsible for leading library publishing services and developing scholarly communication programs and services to advance open access through sustainable publishing models. This role requires an energetic professional with expertise in scholarly communications, a strong commitment to access to knowledge, and the […]

News, Resources

Resource: In collaboration with the Iowa Women’s Archive, Our Rightful Place is now open to explore

We are pleased to announce the launch of Our Rightful Place in collaboration with the University of Iowa Libraries Iowa Women’s Archives. This digital collection of oral history interviews, data visualizations, archival stories, and more celebrates the history of women in Iowa politics. This project originally grew from the work of 50-50 in 2020, a nonpartisan […]

News, Reports

Report: Diving Deeper: Slavery in Motion Artists in Conversation

On January 16, 2025, Remains // An Archive, a seed lab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, a part of the LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure ecosystem, held a conversation at the Baltimore Museum of Art with four artists who created works to illuminate Remains’ research for its Slavery in Motion project. Dr. Brooke Mai, LifexCode […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: AI bots are destroying Open Access

There’s a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, non-profit organizations, and scholarly publishers, anyone who is working to make quality information universally available on the internet. And the technologists defending against this broad-based attack are doing everything they can […]

By: Eric
Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation

Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and Zionism during the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō periods (1912-1926) as a part of a fellowship at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Institute for Advanced Israel Studies. In fact, I am writing this article […]

Resources

Resource: The Importance of Design Plans for Data Science

Since becoming a Data Fellow at the D-Lab, I have had the opportunity to assist many talented social scientists through the D-Lab’s Consulting service. A regular consulting request is to help with the research design for a new project. These requests are understandable. For empirical researchers, a high-quality research design makes or breaks a research […]

Reports

Report: A Novel Approach To Novels That Shaped Our World!

It is wonderful to be collaborating with Leeds Libraries on their online Games Jam this month, which is encouraging people to create playful interactive adaptations of books in the BBC’s Novels that Shaped Our World list. In my experience game jams are a brilliant way of bringing historic and literary digital library and archive collections […]

Announcements

Announcement: Portraits in DH: Dr. Sylvia Fernández

Sylvia A. Fernández, Ph.D is currently a Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. She is a co-founder of Borderlands Archives Cartography, a member of Torn Apart / Separados, and team member and coordinator of the ongoing initiative of United Fronteras, as well as other collaborative […]