The DH Curation Guide is “a community resource guide to data curation in the digital humanities.” The DH Curation Guide: offers concise, expert introductions to key topics, including annotated links to important standards, articles, projects, and other resources. […] Data curation is an emerging problem for the humanities as both data and analytical practices become increasingly digital. Research […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » The Preservation of Complex Objects. Volume 1, Visualisations and Simulations. The POCOS project has released The Preservation of Complex Objects. Volume 1, Visualisations and Simulations. Here’s an excerpt: Let us say that there is an implication that an atomic digital object is a single file, and that this is synonymous with the notion […]
UC Santa Cruz launches the Grateful Dead Archive Online – UC Santa Cruz. The UCSC Library announced today that the public can now access the Grateful Dead Archive Online through the GDAO website at www.gdao.org. Several years in the making, GDAO features nearly 25,000 items and over 50,000 scans selected from the Archive at UC Santa Cruz, documenting […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012. The ENUMERATE project has released Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012. Here’s an excerpt: The ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012 represents the first major study into the current state of digitisation in Europe. It […]
The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO proposes to organize an international conference from 26 to 28 September 2012 in Vancouver (BC) Canada, to explore the main issues affecting the preservation of digital documentary heritage, in order to develop strategies that […]
Introduction to Digital Humanities. Professor Todd PresnerWinter 2012, Wed, 2-5 PM, Public Affairs 1278University of California Los Angeles DH 201/Comp Lit 290 Graduate Seminar Introduction to Digital Humanities Humanistic Knowledge, Disciplines, and Institutions in the 21st Century Course Description: The purpose of this graduate seminar is to introduce students to the key concepts, methods, theories, and […]
Archive@NYU : Supporting Digital Humanities in the Library: Creating Sustainable and Scalable Services. As the digital humanities become a mainstream option for many scholars, libraries and presses have the chance to rethink our services. We must grasp how scholarly communication is changing, and partner with scholars to build services they need. This working session reports […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Head, Digital Initiatives at Ohio State University Libraries. The Ohio State University Libraries are recruiting a Head, Digital Initiatives. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The Ohio State University Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Head, Digital Initiatives to lead the evolution of digital library services and collections […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Digital and Archives/Special Collections Manager at University of San Diego Library. The University of San Diego Library is recruiting a Digital and Archives/Special Collections Manager. Here’s an excerpt from the ad (Job: IRC8302): Under the supervision of the University Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, the Digital and Archives/Special Collections Manager is responsible for creating […]
Call for participants: SCMS workshop on digital humanities and film/media studies | Miriam Posner’s Blog. Among those who care about such things, it’s become clear that there’s a bit of a divide between film and media studies, often thought to be primarily theoretical or historical, and digital humanities, which often emphasizes the importance of hacking […]
