Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What to do with Linked Data?

I think Linked Data offers some exciting opportunities to libraries, archives and museums (LAMS), and I’m pleased and excited that others feel the same. However there has been, in my view – and on my part, a bit of ‘build it and they will come’ rhetoric around the publication of linked data by LAMS. This is […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Media and Learning Badge Development Research Competition

Announcing CFP: Digital Media and Learning Badge Development Research Competition | HASTAC. We seek research proposals that support and inform the design, development, and deployment of the digital badges and badge systems in any of these categories: The Digital Media and Learning Badges for Lifelong Learning general category, which supported the development of badges and badge systems […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to Epistemologies? » Journal of Peer Production

The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to Epistemologies? » Journal of Peer Production. From the perspective of social organization, Free Software can be conceived as a form of critique by adaptability and modifiability, as pointed out by anthropologist Christopher Kelty [Two Bits, 2008], standing outside institutionalized forms of power and providing working […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Introducing Scripto: a Tool for Community Transcription

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media » Blog Archive » Introducing Scripto: a Tool for Community Transcription. The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University is pleased to announce the release of its newest open source tool, Scripto, which opens up the possibilities of community transcription for digital […]

News, Resources

Resource: The Map of Early Modern London

MoEML. The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London (1560–1640). Taking the Agas map as its platform, the project links encyclopedia-style articles, scholarly work, student work, editions, and literary texts to the places mentioned therein. Students will view the landmarks of Shakespeare’s London […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Topic Modeling for Humanists: A Guided Tour

It’s that time again! Somebody else posted a really clear and enlightening description of topic modeling on the internet. This time it was Allen Riddell, and it’s so good that it inspired me to write this post about topic modeling that includes no actual new information, but combines a lot of old information in a way that […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Preservation and Electronic Records Archivist at Purdue University Libraries

Reporting to the University Archivist and Head, Archives and Special Collections Division, the Digital Preservation and Electronic Records Archivist will be responsible for the management, acquisition, appraisal, description, and preservation of born-digital records with historical, evidential, research, or administrative value to the university. Will collaborate with faculty and staff to collect, manage, preserve, and provide […]