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Editors’ Choice: The Merits of Incorporating Allahyari’s “Material Speculation” with 3D Printing

Anthropology Ph.D. Candidate Sue Ann McCarty frequently visits the Makerspace to print archaeological artifacts. Over multiple conversations, we’ve discovered that we share a similar passion for 3D modeling and printing in the classroom. Sue Ann recently applied her research to a course she taught at James Madison University, and I asked her to share more […]

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Editors’ Choice: Apps, Maps, & Models

Last Monday several of us here at WLUDH traveled down to Duke University for their symposium on Apps, Maps & Models: Digital Pedagogy in Art History, Archaeology & Visual Studies. I found the trip to be enlightening and invigorating. If you are interested in the event, you can find videos of the talks here and here as well as […]

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Editors’ Choice: What Can You Do with 10,000 Petitions? Digging Deeper Into the Data

The London Lives Petitions project is exploring approximately 10,000 petitions (and petitioning letters) addressed to magistrates which survive in the voluminous records of eighteenth-century London and Middlesex Sessions of the Peace which were digitised around 2008 by the London Lives project (of which I was the project manager). The first few months of the project […]

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Editors’ Choice: Notes on Teaching with Slack

Slack is communication software popular for handling workplace information flow, project management, customer support, and all kinds of other things. It’s useful for professional teams, but it’s also convenient for just about any other community that needs a quick place for synchronous and asynchronous conversation and collaboration. Read full post here.

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Editors’ Choice: Welcome to DHNow’s New Editor-at-Large Registration Process

by Amanda Morton – February 23, 2016 We’re rolling out the new user registration/Editor-at-Large user management plugin (developed by one of our managing editors, Amanda Regan) this week. This post will serve as an introduction to its new features, and a brief instruction manual for both new users and existing Editors-at-Large. We welcome any feedback you might […]

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Editors’ Choice: Plagiarism is Dead, Long Live the Retweet

“What oft was thought but ne’er so well express’d” Alexander Pope’s eighteenth century advice to writers — now known as content producers — has a new relevance for the Internet Age, although in the discussion that follows, a more exact phrasing match might be, “It’s already a meme, but (driven by FOMO) I need to […]

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Editors’ Choice: Predicting Social Trends from Non-photographic Images on Twitter

Humanists use historical images as sources of information about social norms, behavior, fashion, and other details of particular cultures, places and periods. Dutch Golden Era paintings, works by French Impressionists, and 20th century street photography are just three examples of such images. Normally such visuals directly show objects of interests such as social scenes, city […]

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Editors’ Choice: If You Build It, Will They Fund?: Making Research Data Management Sustainable

Data management underpins current and future research, funder mandates, open access initiatives, researchers’ reputations, and institutional ranking. While it is widely recognized that it’s necessary to provide data management support, recognition that it requires sustainable funding is slower in coming. Read full report here.