News, Resources

Resource: Introducing jPach: A Journal Publishing Platform for HathiTrust

jPach will allow MPublishing to publish journal content directly into the HathiTrust repository, and it will offer a number of benefits. First, it will be modular and extensible, so we will be able to replace parts of the system and build new functionality more easily. Second, it will allow a publishing partner to be involved […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Media Librarian at Florida International University Libraries

Working within the department and with colleagues in Green Library (MMC) and Hubert Library (BBC), this librarian will have responsibility to: Acquire, coordinate, and manage video, audio, and image collections. Provide outreach services to the user community. Participate in the university-wide development and implementation of policies related to digital rights management, copyright, and intellectual property […]

News, Resources

Resource: Data and visualization blogs worth following

About three years ago, I shared 37 data-ish blogs you should know about, but a lot has changed since then. Some blogs are no longer in commission, and lots of new blogs have sprung up (and died). Today, I went through my feed reader again, and here’s what came up. Coincidentally, 37 blogs came up again. […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: DH 2012: Registration is open

To register for the DH 2012, please follow this link to the ConfTool system and select your registration options. If you do not already have a ConfTool account, you will be asked to create one. You may also sign up for the pre-conference workshops and tutorials as well as for all social events.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What Comes After Digital?

As Douglas Adams once memorably said, ‘lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food’. The message is the thing, not the medium through which it is conveyed. But if this is true of print, will it not turn out to be equally true of ‘Digital’? There appears to be some confusion about […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Digital Urtext

As we reach a point where many of the classic books of literature and science published before the magical date of 1923 have been digitized, it is time to consider the quality of those copies and the issue of redundancy. A serious concern in the times before printing was that copying — and it was […]