Yale U. Press Digitizes Stalin’s Massive Personal Archive | Publishing Perspectives. Over the last two years Yale University Press and the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History have been quietly digitizing Stalin’s personal archive, consisting of thousands of documents, letters, and books, that passed through the Soviet leader’s hands. Vadim Staklo, the editor overseeing […]
Digital Pedagogy Roundup – First Half of 2012 » Roger T. Whitson, Ph.D. For those of you who don’t know, I was a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech for two years. First-year fellows participate in a postdoctoral seminar called dped, which is short for digital pedagogy. Rebecca’s request looked like a great opportunity for me […]
Taking Notes at #THATCamp This past weekend was THATCamp Prime 2012 at the George Mason’s Center for History and New Media, and thanks to a few cancellations, I got the chance to join in the fun and rub elbows with 100+ DHers. Like many other attendees, I drove home with a browser full of links and a host […]
The OKF is recruiting! | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog. The following roles are open – Community Coordinator Labs Developer Front End Web Developer Data Visualization Developer Data Wrangler Web and Systems Administrator Foundation Administrator Data Wrangler and Data Vis positions here – applications are still open so do get in touch! Here’s some more info on the other positions that […]
Duties include: Anticipating and investigating trends in digital library technology so we can respond quickly to new opportunities; and, providing primary support for new initiatives in resource discovery, digital preservation, knowledge management and scholarly communication. This position reports to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Programs and Systems.
This Friday, June 22 from 1:00 – 2:00pm EST (10:00 – 11:00am PST), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion group under the hashtag #digped on the relationship between pedagogy and technology. Functionality is increasingly important in an educational world that includes hybrid classes, MOOCs, and more; but is functionality pedagogy? Is pedagogy driving functionality, or is it the […]
Editors’ Note: In February the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum at the Smithsonian Institution released their collection metadata on GitHub using the CC0 Creative Commons license. Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections. Or, “what can you learn about 270,000 records in a week?” by Mia Ridge Museum collections are often accidents of history, the […]
Last week, the Library of Congress Archives Forum hosted a talk by Kate Theimer of the popular blog ArchivesNext. Theimer is a prominent voice in the archival community, frequently writing and speaking about archival advocacy issues as well as the challenges and opportunities that technology and the Internet offer for cultural heritage institutions. Theimer spoke on […]
In this Blogpost we describe how we improved the accuracy of the process by which we aligned Arachne to Pleiades. The fact that the first Arachne-Pleiades matching was strictly string-based brought several problems with it. (See previous posts 1, 2.) In a place matching process, each usable context can reduce the prospect of making errors, especially when […]
Welcome to the open peer review of Shakespeare Quarterly’s new experimental feature, “After SAA.” Papers grouped under “Shakespeare and Philosophy,” “Shakespeare and Language,” and “Shakespeare and Skepticism” were first presented at the 2012 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. They appear here because they offer particular opportunities for further discussion within, and across, the boundaries […]
