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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts, American Society for Theatre Research

The performing arts have had a long, distinguished tradition of practice, recently enhanced by creative use of emerging technologies. Diverse collections representing print, electronic, multimedia, visual resources, and ephemera support our research. While Digital Humanities is currently a frequently discussed topic, how does this affect libraries, archives, museums, teaching and learning, and new scholarship in […]

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News, Reports

Report: “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success

This report briefly presents the findings and recommendations of the “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success” project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a core activity of North American academic libraries and suggested ways in which further capacity could be built. “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Re” by […]

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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Digital Classics Association

The mission of the Digital Classics Association (DCA) is to foster digital methods that can enhance our understanding of classical antiquity, its legacy, and associated cultures. DCA membership is open to all those with interests in advancing this mission. The DCA is currently in its formative stage and looking for new members. We welcome interest […]

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Thinking About Infrastructure

A colleague drew my attention to Nicola Osborne’s liveblog of the very interesting event at the University of Edinburgh on 24 February 2012, Digital Scholarship: A Day of Ideas. It is wonderful to see that Edinburgh University, which, through EDINA and other activities, has made such important contributions to the growth of digital scholarship over […]

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News, Resources

Resource: “Who Speaks for the Negro?” Digital Archive

The Who Speaks for the Negro?  website is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965.  The original materials are held at the University of Kentucky and Yale University Libraries.  We are indebted to both of these institutions for their willingness to share their […]

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Middle Distance

Ted Underwood’s recent posts about literary and non-literary diction between 1700-1900, and the various discussions they sparked, including Katherine Harris’s post on gender and DH archives, have had me thinking a lot about cultural poetics and the middle distance. In 19th-century studies, most DH projects have tended to operate at two different scales: large-scale text analysis projects (associated with so-called […]

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking Visualisation

Last week I attended the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference and heard a talk by Robert Groves, Director of the US Census Bureau. Aside the impressiveness of the bureau’s work I was struck by how Groves conceived of visualisations as requiring either fast thinking or slow thinking. Fast thinking data visualisations offer a clear message without the need for the viewer to spend […]

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