Job: Visiting Asst. Prof, Public History (Digital), Temple
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Author: Colleen Nugent
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Editors’ Choice: Change Computer History Forever: Well, Here We Are
The Internet Archive is the largest collection of historical software online in the world…. a fully-accessible, worldwide-reachable, massive-bandwidth and completely unrestricted collection of computer history up right now, in these [Internet Archive collections] I’ve just mentioned. Some are mirrors of incredible projects that have been around long before this moment, and let me not diminish […]
Editors’ Choice: “From the Version of Record to a Version of the Record”
The opening plenary from CNI’s spring 2013 membership meeting by Herbert Van de Sompel, From the Version of Record to a Version of the Record, is now available on CNI’s two video channels: In the past two decades, scholarly communication has evolved significantly to become mainly digital and network-based. This transition has brought along changes in the […]
Report: Blog Archive “Drowning in Research Data: Addressing Data Management Literacy of Graduate Students” » DigitalKoans
In this paper we will discuss findings from our research study of social sciences and science graduate students’ levels of research data management literacy, which include attitudes and behaviours, and formal and informal education experiences. Using an online survey of Canadian graduate students in the social sciences and science, we were able to reach a […]
Resource: Blog Archive ACRL Makes Entire College & Research Libraries Archive Freely Available » DigitalKoans
“Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession,” said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. “Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL’s ongoing commitment to promote and deliver on the promise of open access. It is a treasure trove of content […]
Award: RSA-TCP Article Prize in Digital Renaissance Research
The Renaissance Society of America and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) are jointly offering a prize that seeks to recognize and encourage the scholarly use of the vast range and depth of Renaissance materials made available by digitization. The purpose of the prize is to recognize and reward original research that makes substantial and significant use of digitized archives of […]
Report: Women’s History, and . . . Metadata?! – Women’s History in the Digital World
Toward the end of March I had the wonderful opportunity to present at an inaugural conference on the subject of Women’s History in the Digital World (#WHDigWrld on Twitter), at the Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education (at Bryn Mawr). Not only did this event allow me to meet many people doing wonderful work with […]
Resource: Internet Archive, 450,000 Early Journal Articles Now Available
Internet Archive announces today the addition of over 450,000 journal articles from the JSTOR Early Journal Content collection. Early Journal Content is a selection of pre-1923 materials from more than 350 journals and includes articles in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and mathematics and other sciences. This content was digitized by JSTOR and is freely […]
Editors’ Choice: Inaugurating the Content Matters Interview Series: Deb Boyer from PhillyHistory.org
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group is excited to launch a new series for the Signal. We’re calling it Content Matters, and much like the Insights series that the Innovation Working Group has published here for few years now, the interview series will feature discussions and stories about the content that our members are passionate about, the importance of […]
Editors’ Choice: Filtering Scholarly Writing from the Open Web using Active Learning SVM
Every week Digital Humanities Now (DHNow) distributes the most important news and pieces for the field by publishing links on our website and Twitter feed. In order to identify the content most valuable to this broad and dispersed community, we rely on volunteers who help us read through the aggregated RSS feeds from our collection of 500+ […]