Resource: Suggestions for Study Habits in the Digital Age
Extensive comments about strategies for organizing readings, note-taking, and writing using analog and digital methods.
Author: DH Now
Resource: CNI Conversations: Large Datasets, Identity, & New Digital Scholarship
CNI Director Clifford Lynch provides a round-up of reports and events related to large datasets, identity, and new digital scholarship. Associate Director Joan Lippincott discusses digital humanities, teaching and learning.
Report: Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 2: Survey Analysis
OCLC Research has released Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 2: Survey Analysis.
Report: Trends in Distributed and Remote Preservation Storage–More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey
General conversation about the cloud focuses on third-party cloud storage providers. As the results below suggest, adoption of these cloud storage providers remains relatively small. However, when we consider cloud storage alongside several related ways of distributing and using storage as a service, some interesting trends emerge. The results illuminate both the widespread acceptance of some digital preservation storage practices and the continuing uncertainty regarding others.
Resource: Quanitifying Digital Humanities Infographic from UCL CDH
Statistics about Digital Humanities around the world, prepared as an infographic image available for download.
Job: Digital Preservation Librarian, U. of Michigan
The University Library at the University of Michigan seeks a dynamic and engaged Digital Preservation Librarian to provide leadership and coordinate the library’s activities to preserve the library’s growing collections.
Job: Digital Projects Coordinator, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Reporting to the Assistant Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, the Digital Projects Coordinator will oversee the digital research and teaching initiatives of the Center.
Job: 2 DH positions at CLIR & Newberry Library through ACLS Public Fellows Program
ACLS invites applications for the second competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place 13 recent Ph.Ds. from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Two are related to the Digital Humanities.
Editors’ Choice: Privileging Form Over Content: Analysing Historical Videogames
[T]his article is a call for a refocusing of academic work on historical videogames. A call for an approach that does not get detained by primarily examining the particular historical content of each game (i.e. historical accuracy or what a game ‘says’ about a particular period it depicts) but instead tries to establish an analytical framework that privileges analysis of form (i.e. how the particular audio-visual-ludic structures of the game operate to produce meaning and allow the player to explore/configure discourse about the past). The benefit of this is that we do not just gain knowledge of a particular historical representation but instead, conclusions about form (a particular game-structure’s operations) are then transferable to an understanding of games made up of similar ludic (and audio-visual) elements.
Opportunity: Feds Will Team up on Digital Curation Residency Program
IMLS, working in partnership with the Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI), is developing a national residency program in digital curation. (For the purposes of this program, “digital curation” means the act of collecting, selecting, managing, making accessible, and preserving digital assets over long periods of time.)
Planning for the project has just begun and the first residents should be in place beginning in the summer of 2013