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Resource: “Who Speaks for the Negro?” Digital Archive

The Who Speaks for the Negro?  website is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965.  The original materials are held at the University of Kentucky and Yale University Libraries.  We are indebted to both of these institutions for their willingness to share their […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Middle Distance

Ted Underwood’s recent posts about literary and non-literary diction between 1700-1900, and the various discussions they sparked, including Katherine Harris’s post on gender and DH archives, have had me thinking a lot about cultural poetics and the middle distance. In 19th-century studies, most DH projects have tended to operate at two different scales: large-scale text analysis projects (associated with so-called […]

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Editors’ Choice: Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking Visualisation

Last week I attended the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference and heard a talk by Robert Groves, Director of the US Census Bureau. Aside the impressiveness of the bureau’s work I was struck by how Groves conceived of visualisations as requiring either fast thinking or slow thinking. Fast thinking data visualisations offer a clear message without the need for the viewer to spend […]

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Resource: Register & Read from JSTOR

Register & Read Beta is a new, experimental program to offer free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account. Register & Read follows the release of the Early Journal Content as the next step in our efforts to find sustainable ways to extend access to JSTOR, specifically to those not affiliated […]

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Resource: The Open Data Handbook

This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses thewhy, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.  

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Resource: Data Curation Curriculum Search

The Data Curation Curriculum Search is a database of programs and courses covering data curation and closely related fields. The tool and all research has been conducted by the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. This site is part of the broader impacts goals […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Software Engineer, MIT Libraries

The MIT Libraries are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated software engineer to join a group of developers that provides programming and software analysis support across the MIT Libraries. This position provides both general application development for library technical platforms and services, as well as specialized development for the MIT Geodata repository.