The DH Curation Guide is “a community resource guide to data curation in the digital humanities.” The DH Curation Guide: offers concise, expert introductions to key topics, including annotated links to important standards, articles, projects, and other resources. […] Data curation is an emerging problem for the humanities as both data and analytical practices become increasingly digital. Research […]
Every so often, a controversy erupts over something that seems relatively simple: Namely, the concept of linking to (and thereby giving credit to) the source of a news report. In one of the most recent examples, Instapaper founder Marco Arment — who broke the news about a wave of corrupted apps in the Apple store — kept […]
Occupying the Digital Divide by Tanya Sasser on July 8, 2012 …Jean Anyon argues that the digital divide is not so much one of resources as one of “teaching methods and philosophies of education.” Colleges, as the educators of educators, must do more to encourage not only the integrating of technology, but a new philosophy […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » The Preservation of Complex Objects. Volume 1, Visualisations and Simulations. The POCOS project has released The Preservation of Complex Objects. Volume 1, Visualisations and Simulations. Here’s an excerpt: Let us say that there is an implication that an atomic digital object is a single file, and that this is synonymous with the notion […]
UC Santa Cruz launches the Grateful Dead Archive Online – UC Santa Cruz. The UCSC Library announced today that the public can now access the Grateful Dead Archive Online through the GDAO website at www.gdao.org. Several years in the making, GDAO features nearly 25,000 items and over 50,000 scans selected from the Archive at UC Santa Cruz, documenting […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012. The ENUMERATE project has released Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012. Here’s an excerpt: The ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012 represents the first major study into the current state of digitisation in Europe. It […]
The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO proposes to organize an international conference from 26 to 28 September 2012 in Vancouver (BC) Canada, to explore the main issues affecting the preservation of digital documentary heritage, in order to develop strategies that […]
Introduction to Digital Humanities. Professor Todd PresnerWinter 2012, Wed, 2-5 PM, Public Affairs 1278University of California Los Angeles DH 201/Comp Lit 290 Graduate Seminar Introduction to Digital Humanities Humanistic Knowledge, Disciplines, and Institutions in the 21st Century Course Description: The purpose of this graduate seminar is to introduce students to the key concepts, methods, theories, and […]
This past month was a busy one in terms of familiarizing myself with literature related to Hate 2.0. I dedicated the month of June to reading up on theoretical and methodological approaches to Flickr and social media more broadly, while engaging with the literature on online protest, creative forms of opposition, and the role, place, […]
Archive@NYU : Supporting Digital Humanities in the Library: Creating Sustainable and Scalable Services. As the digital humanities become a mainstream option for many scholars, libraries and presses have the chance to rethink our services. We must grasp how scholarly communication is changing, and partner with scholars to build services they need. This working session reports […]
