On behalf of the Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, the Symposium Committee is circulating a call for papers for their Spring 2021 online symposium, Material Culture in an Increasingly Digital World. As the world around us transitions into an increasingly digital environment, the way we interact with material culture becomes less physical and […]
On Friday, 22 January, the Digital Scholarship Team at the British Library held their first 21st Century Curatorship talk of 2021; Identify Yourself: (Almost) everything you ever wanted to know about persistent identifiers but were afraid to ask. This series of professional development talks and seminars is part of Digital Scholarship Staff Training Programme. They […]
We have a few seats left on our fun online intensives: Our trainings are a technicolour mix of lecture, exercises, discussion & techniques, hosted by IIB founder and author, David McCandless. Learn how to approach data-visualisation and infographic creation from an editorial ‘conceptual’ point of view, rather than a data POV. Read full post here.
My recent posts have focused on the biblical text and ways to access it online. Here I will turn to the material culture from the ancient environs in which the Bible developed. My focus is oriented more toward resources for digital publication and teaching. I will highlight a select few sites with great resources for […]
What is a text? A text is not solely composed of words on a page. If we break down all of its elements, we can also include the title of the text, the copyright page, and the preface. We may even note the paper itself, the ink, or the binding. In literary studies, this is […]
For the past four years, the British Library has been researching, collecting and documenting complex digital publications produced in the UK. Born in response to the 2013 UK Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations, the Emerging Formats project looked at different examples of digital writing, analysed how these can be best preserved and given access to within […]
The Humanities contribute to society in many different ways; most of them are indirect and thus hard to measure. While there are good reasons for this state of affairs, at CREATE we are investigating whether we can quantify and qualify a specific form of impact: work on timely issues and open societal challenges. At this […]
With the conclusion of another successful British Library Labs Symposium, and what has been a rather unusual year, it is a good time to reflect on some of the things that the Digital Research Team at the British Library has been busy with – and some of our plans for the coming year too. Despite […]
In response to growing interest towards creating digital dissertations, I recently revised and updated the Digital Fellows’ guide on the topic. I expanded our old page to add information on, what is a digital dissertation, how to begin designing a digital dissertation, resources to help get your project off the ground. Read full post here.
The call for papers for the 16th International Digital Curation Conference, IDCC21, is now available. As in previous years, IDCC is organised by the Digital Curation Centre with the support of the Coalition for Network Information. We’re inviting submissions on the broad theme of “Data Quality and Data Limitations – working towards equality through data […]
