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Resource: Google Art Project

Collections – Google Art Project. How do the images we encounter on the street or on the walls of galleries create meaning? Art museums hold the key, but until recently, they have been accessible only in person. The Google Art Project attempts to provide more access to Museums and works of Art. The Google Art […]

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Resource: Designing Applications for Extensibility and Reuse

Designing Applications for Extensibility and Reuse | | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Underlying all of the scholarly work in a digital humanities project is the digital, something that tends to be swept under the rug along with managing a DH center. I want to spend […]

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Resource: The Digital Humanities Job Archive

The Digital Humanities Job Archive. The DH Jobs Archive is a repository of jobs listed as relating to digital humanities. Listings are increasingly featured on community sites such as DHNow or circulating on Twitter. However, many of these listings appear only for a brief time before being taken offline. Listservs including Humanist act as the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Hot Thing

We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, so terrifying, and unpredictable. He hesitated to answer, and then said judiciously: “I think I shall praise it.” – Robert Hass Praise   I find the Debates in the Digital Humanities volume terribly upsetting. Before I go any further […]

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Resource: The Power of Open

Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. Now more than 400 million CC-licensed works are available on the Internet, from music and photos, to research findings and entire college courses. Creative Commons created the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data […]

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Report: The 2012 State of America’s Libraries: A Report from the American Library Association

Academic libraries find themselves embracing new roles in at least two key areas: Publishing. More academic libraries are entering the world of scholarly publishing by creating or expanding services. About half the respondents in a recent survey had (or were developing) library publishing services in order to support change in scholarly publication. Three quarters of […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Librarian for Digital Humanities Research – Yale University

Yale University librarians work in libraries across the Central, West, Medical, and Science campuses, to build, manage, and provide access to a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. They demonstrate flexibility, creativity, and imagination in their work and adapt to and help shape a continuously evolving work environment. Yale librarians provide consistently […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Organizing Early Modern Texts

The rapidly growing archive of early modern texts online presents significant new opportunities and necessities for the ways in which we organize it. Addressing such challenges raises important questions for both skeptics and boosters: Are new methods of organization resulting in virtual but less reliable finding aids? Do pressures of modernization encourage resource-strapped organizers of […]