You can help a class group project from the MLS program at the University of Maryland with the info needs of digital humanities by taking this brief (16 question) survey
Note from the Editors: Mr. Puschmann authored four excellent recaps of the Berlin 9 conference which are highlighted below. He also compiled a list of other posts which are listed here as well.
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has received a major collection of electronic literature and vintage computer hardware from pioneering hypertext author Bill Bly.
Call For Proposals: Summer 2012 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities: Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities(June 18-29, 2012). Applications due Friday, February 3, 2012.
Note from the Editors: These posts are part of an ongoing conversation about text-mining and statistical analysis of language. To further investigate the methods used, please follow the links provided by the authors.
“Like Morozov and Lanier, I find a similar Delusion, though one more academically minded, let’s call it the “DH Delusion.” The DH Delusion begins with a similar sort of cyber-utopianism. I remember the excitement of my first Digital History course in which it seemed not only possible, but probable that in a matter of years most scholarship would be produced in the digital medium. The Internet seemed to be promote the sort of intellectual freedom and scholastic democracy that could topple an oppressive and outdated structure of academia.”
The IU Bloomington Libraries are seeking an energetic, innovative and service-oriented individual for the newly created position of Metadata Analyst for the Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP).
SIG-AH and SIG-VIS (Arts & Humanities, Visualization-Images-Sound) of ASIST are joining forces to examine the digital humanities and information visualization with a group of papers to be published in an upcoming special issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Editors’ Note:
The conversation about theory and the digital humanities highlighted in the Theory Round-up last Friday has continued into this week. We’ve added the most recent posts to this list. Please Tweet @dhnow if you have more to suggest. *updated at 3:30pm EST*
Editors’ Note:
Below are links to several pieces about the effects of social media on open access scholarship. Also included is a bibliography focused on the impact of open access scholarship.
