News, Resources

Resource: Pleiades Downloads

From the site: Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form…Regularly updated exports (“dumps”) of the published items in the Pleiades dataset may be downloaded in four different formats as described below. Find out more: Pleiades Downloads

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Resource: fuzzr: Fuzz-Test your R Functions

From the post: I’ve just released a new package on CRAN: fuzzr R’s dynamic typing can be both blessing and curse. One drawback is that a function author must decide how to check which inputs should be accepted, and which should throw warnings or errors. fuzzr helps you to check how cleanly and informatively your […]

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Resource: The Sourcecaster

From the post: I recently launched the sourcecaster with James Baker as a community resource to guide use of the command line to meet common challenges working with digital primary sources. Find out more: the sourcecaster  

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFProposals: DHQ Special Issue: Creative Pedagogical Approaches in Information Design

From the CFP: Digital Humanities Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue on creative pedagogical approaches in the instruction of information visualization. Contributions are invited on methodologies, tools, and resources that practitioners have used to teach any facet of information visualization, which may include (but is not limited to) best practices in design, the use […]

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Resource: A Novice’s Intro to XSLT

From the post: In a post at the ACRL TechConnect Blog, Eric Phetteplace (California College of Arts) provides a tutorial on eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). In the tutorial, Phetteplace gives his description of what XSLT is and how it can be used, and offers a step-by-step method for a MODS-to-Dublin-Core metadata transformation, including links […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Head of Technology, Beinecke Library Digital Services Unit at Yale

From the posting: Reporting to the Director of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Head of Technology is a key member of the library’s senior management, responsible for providing vision, strategic direction, & administrative leadership for all aspects of Beinecke’s IT operations. The library seeks a candidate with a keen perspective on the challenges […]

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CFP: Exploring the “Humanity” in the Digital Humanities: Africana/Black Studies’ Perspectives on the Digital Humanities

From the CFP: African American Studies and Research Center is interested in exploring the relationship between the digital humanities and Africana/Black epistemological frameworks that ask, “What Does It Mean to Be Human?” We seek papers and panels on topics related to our understanding of digital humanities. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Digital […]