Resource: Free Access to Scientific American 1845-1909 archive through 11/30/11
Nature Publishing Group is providing complimentary access to the 1845-1909 archive of Scientific American through November 30, 2011.
Author: DH Now
Resource: Library for the R Programming Language
I have gathered together much of the code from my series of posts on Exploring Art Data as a library for the R programming language which is now available as a package on R-Forge: https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rca/.
Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities and Theory Round-Up
Editors’ Note:
In the past month scholars have been writing more extensively about the intersections between digital humanities, hacking, and theory. Below are several pieces exploring the place of theory in digital humanities work, each with comments and links to earlier discussions. This conversation also has led to the creation of @THATCampTheory, being planned for 2012.
Natalia Cecire: American Nerds Go to THATCamp, November 3, 2011
- “But one concern continues to resurface in all of these posts, as well as in the Twitter conversation around my initial post, namely that theory, too, can be a site of power, one that has played all too well with the academic star system in the past, leaving people who now greatly
Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication
For me, the lines between digital humanities, libraries, and scholarly communication are so faint as to be insignificant. And my perception of the equivalences among these entities that often seem siloed to my colleagues presents a real challenge as I try to help people–both at my own institution and at other campuses–think about possible futures for higher education in our digital culture.
The source of my perception lies in my having begun to learn about how digital innovations are changing libraries and publishing as a result of my first forays into digital humanities.
Editors’ Choice: Principles, Tips, Advice, and Ideas for Designing, Creating, Growing, Maintaining, or Using Online – Virtual Communities
A list of principles for designing on-line communities created by Dr. Sorin A. Matei and his students registered in various versions of the Online Interaction Graduate Seminar at Purdue University
Online / virtual community design principles
Design guidelines are not guarantees.
Many are necessary for online community development but they don’t guarantee that communities will form. Good design principles are necessary but not sufficient. The following list provides some key principles to consider and implement when designing and online community:
Resource: The Project One-Pager
By Tito Sierra
The Project One-Pager: A Simple Tool for Collaboratively Defining Project Scope
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Report: Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success
SPARC and the Academic Resources Coalition have released Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Research Report, Version 1.0.
Report: Humanities researchers and digital technologies: Building infrastructures for a new age
Europe’s leading scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the Humanities. In a Science Policy Briefing released today by the European Science Foundation (ESF), they argue that without Research Infrastructures (RIs) such as archives, libraries, academies, museums and galleries, significant strands of Humanities research would not be possible.
CFP: rhetoric and the digital humanities
This edited collection will consist of an editors’ introduction and three sections. The first section will consist of eight to twelve chapters that define field connections between rhetoric and the digital humanities. The second section will consist of eight to twelve chapters focused on research methodology.
Editors’ Choice: Legal Issues in Mass Digitization: A Preliminary Analysis and Discussion Document
The U.S. Office of the Register of Copyrights has released Legal Issues in Mass Digitization: A Preliminary Analysis and Discussion Document .
Here’s the announcement:
The Copyright Office has published a Preliminary Analysis and Discussion Document that addresses the issues raised by the intersection between copyright law and the mass digitization of books. …