Report: HASTAC2011 Conference Blog Round-Up
This is a collection of blogs from the HASTAC 2011 Conference on December 1-3, in Ann Arbor, MI. Please leave any additions in the comments, and I’ll edit this post to include them.
Category: News
Report: Tokyo DH Symposium 2011
By Geoffrey Rockwell
These are my notes on a symposium organized by Tokyo University on “The Establishment of a Knowledge Infrastructure for the Next Generation and the Mission of Digital Humanities.” This was organized by Masahiro Shimoda.
Resource: Teaching DH 101: Introduction to the Digital Humanities
NITLE Event: Teaching DH 101: Introduction to the Digital Humanities.
December 16, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Seminar organizers encourage faculty, instructional technologists, librarians, and others interested in digital scholarship, digital humanities, and related projects to attend this seminar in institutional teams if possible. This seminar will be especially interesting to those interested in how to teach digital humanities to undergraduates. (Times EST)
Resource: Database of Bookbindings
This database is a finding aid to the British Library’s bookbinding collections. It includes information and images for selected items from the Library’s rich collection of fine bindings of books printed in western Europe from the fifteenth century to date. There is also a selection from the valuable bookbindings collections of the Library’s partner, the National Library of the Netherlands. The database is a work in progress and its scope will be widened as resources allow.
via The British Library – Database of Bookbindings – Default
Resource: The museum website as a newspaper – an interview with Walker Art Center
So with all that comes the new Walker Art Center website. Launched yesterday it represents a potential paradigm shift for institutional websites.
Report: Diversity of Access to Digital Preservation Collections; first results from the NDSA Storage Survey
What are the access requirements for digital cultural heritage collections? This was one of the questions that the National Digital Stewardship Alliance started exploring earlier this year. Different access requirements result in very different kinds of preservation storage systems, and the NDSA Infrastructure working group wanted to know more about the kinds of requirements that are in place for its members’ collections.
Report: Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities; Supporting Discovery and Examination in Digital Cultural Landscapes
In this paper, the authors attempt to identify problematic issues for subject tagging in the humanities, particularly those associated with information objects in digital formats.
Report: Diversity of Access to Digital Preservation Collections; first results from the NDSA Storage Survey
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Infrastructure working group has been conducting a year-long exploration of NDSA member preservation storage systems. This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of posts discussing some of the results of a survey of the membership’s approaches to preservation storage.
Report: Europeana, “The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid: A Business Model Perspective on Open Metadata”
Europeana has released The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid: A Business Model Perspective on Open Metadata (PDF).
Resource: Webinar on Badge System Models and Design from the Digital Media and Learning Competition
Yesterday we held our second webinar of phase 2, “Badge System Models and Design.” It featured a great presentation by Carla Cassilli of Mozilla about the many considerations of designing an effective digital badge system. You can watch the video below, or at http://youtu.be/zCAy5weZyHc, and you can download the slides directly as a PDF right here.