Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered University of Amsterdam, Thursday 23 October 2014 – Saturday 25 October 2014 FIRST CALL for PROPOSALS Historical sources and narratives about the past infiltrate every corner of the web, from home-made digital media to online exhibitions, across social networks and in virtual museums. Digital tools have become…

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The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is hosting its second UnCamp on September 8-9, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is “targeted to the digital humanities and informatics tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students,” and is “part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part…

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Digital Humanities 2013, by Geoffrey Rockwell Notes: These conference notes are being written live. I will get all sorts of things wrong and there will be gaps when I’m bored or interested (or skipping.) These conference notes are about the Digital Humanities 2013 conference at Lincoln Nebraska. Digital Humanities 2013: hooks in the 21st Century: Feminist Pedagogy in…

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AHA Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations. The American Historical Association strongly encourages graduate programs and university libraries to adopt a policy that allows the embargoing of completed history PhD dissertations in digital form for as many as six years.  Because many universities no longer keep hard copies of dissertations…

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In the interests of exploring what MOOCs are and can be, Hybrid Pedagogy ran an experimental, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, mini- micro- meta-MOOC about MOOCs endearingly titled “MOOC MOOC”. This week-long course ran in August 2012 with over 600 registrants and again in January 2013 with over 1000 registrants. (A follow-up, 24-hour MOOC ran in June 2013…

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Reporting to the Digital Initiatives Librarian, the Digital Projects Librarian will be responsible for the long-term preservation of FAU’s digital collections in the Florida Digital Archive. The desired candidate will have an understanding of emergent and best practices, standards, issues, and trends relating to digital initiatives in an academic library environment. The primary responsibility of…

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We’re continuing to share a selection of papers that will be presented at the upcoming IFLA World Library and Information Congress that will take place next month in Singapore. Title MOOCs and the Library: Engaging with Evolving Pedagogy Author Mariellen Calter, Assistant University Librarian & Chief of Staff, Stanford University Libraries Abstract The emergence of…

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We are really pleased to announce that Textal, our text analysis app created in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, is now available for download! Textal is a free smartphone app for iOS that allows users to analyze documents, web pages and tweet streams, exploring the relationships between words in the text via…

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