For months now I’ve been stewing about how much I hate @HistoryInPics and their ilk (@HistoryInPix, @HistoricalPics, @History_Pics, etc.)—twitter streams that do nothing more than post “old” pictures and little tidbits of captions for them.1 And when I say “nothing more” that’s precisely what I mean. What they don’t post includes attribution to the photographer…

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Who holds the intellectual property (IP) rights to your digital dissertation? In my case, the answer is complicated, involving multiple licenses and stakeholders. Digital humanities productions brings new licensing concerns to the humanities. Our pre-digital discussions around IP usually centered around book contracts and open-access journals; rights claims from any agency that funds you during…

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We here at Digital Humanities Now invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for rotations throughout Spring 2014. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing our aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, as well as your own networks, to nominate content for distribution through DHNow and…

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My colleague Jennifer deWinter and I are putting together a short documentary project, and we are looking for contributors. We are seeking contributions from women engaged in gaming culture as players, critics, scholars, creators, and the like. We are planning a scholarly documentary in which women read the comments that they have received for making public…

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Crowdsourcing can build virtual community, engage the public, and build large knowledge databases about science and culture. But what does it take, and how fast can you grow? For some insight, we look at a crowdsourced history site: Historypin is an appealing database of historical photos, with dates, locations, captions, and other metadata. It’s called History…

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Hah! I tricked you. I don’t intend to define digital humanities here—too much blood has already been spilled over that subject. I’m sure we all remember the terrible digital humanities / humanities computing wars of 2004, now commemorated yearly under a Big Tent in the U.S., Europe, or in 2015, Australia. Most of us still…

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