open access reads: digital humanities in libraries « the girl works The newest issue of the Journal of Library Administration is subtitled, Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement. I don’t subscribe, can’t find it in EBSCO, and can’t find it at the library. Luckily, the authors have already posted a great deal of their work…

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Preceptor in Digital History. The Department of History seeks applications for a preceptor in Digital History. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2013. We are looking for a promising scholar to implement a vision for digital history in the department and beyond. The preceptor will be responsible for offering support and instruction…

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Text Encoding Initiative Seminar at Brown « Early Modern Online Bibliography. Readers may be interested in the following announcement from Julia Flanders about a special NEH-funded “Taking TEI Futher” institute.  Additional information is available at the WWP’s webpage for their Seminars on Scholarly Text Encoding.

as i mentioned in my last post, the ”short guide to digital humanities” (pages 121-136 of digital_humanities, by anne burdick, johanna drucker, peter lunenfeld, todd presner, and jeffrey schnapp, mit press, 2012) includes the following stricture under the heading “what isn’t the digital humanities?”: the mere use of digital tools for the purpose of humanistic research and communication…

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Parsing CSV Data with Ruby Computers offer us a wonderful opportunity to automate and ease some of the tasks associated with data cleanup and preparation in the humanities. After a conversation with a researcher at CESTA on Friday, I thought about a problem he was confronting with a spreadsheet of data he is collecting that contains many…

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Research Data Symposium. The Research Data Symposium, proudly hosted by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, Columbia’s Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, Columbia’s Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) and Elsevier, is an event being held to lead discussion on topics related to managing and curating research data and a variety of other research outputs. The Symposium will…

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History of Missiology Boston University Theology Library’s collection of missionary biographies, reports, sermons and theologies provides a rich resource for the study of missiology. Building on early informal efforts to digitize portions of the collection, the Library participates in the Open Content Alliance and collaborates with the Internet Archive. This portal provides online access biographical…

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