CFP: JCDL Call for Participation
JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) 2012 Call For Participation June 10-14, 2012 GWU Washington, DC, USA.
Category: News
Resource: an ode to node
Interesting discussion of how to use IRC channels to show people how much Wikipedia is actively curated, without requiring them to reload the recent changes page, connect to some cryptic IRC channels, or dig around in some (wonderfully) detailed statistics. More importantly, could it be done in a playful way?
Report: Is it digital publishing or is it digital humanities?
Last week I attended the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. I’d like to recap a few of the publishing and digital humanities (DH) talks from DLF & highlight a few interesting things to read.
Job: Electronic Textual Cultures Lab Coordinator at UVic
The ETCL (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) engages in cross-disciplinary study of the past, present, and future of textual communication, and acts as a hub for digital humanities activities across the University of Victoria campus, from coast-to-coast, and around the world.
Conference: Project Academic Makeover: Transforming Conferences, Publishing, the Profession
HASTAC’s fifth international conference, hosted this year by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, December 1-3, practices what it preaches, experimenting with an array of new forms and formats designed not just to discuss “Digital Scholarly Communication” but to explore how each of those three terms–digital, scholarly, communication–changes the others in ways that presage powerful new possibilities for higher education (both in the academy and for the general public).
Resource: easygui for the programming historian
I’ll provide a quick and easy tutorial on using easygui and some usage scenarios.
Resource: Creative Commons & Digital Preservation Presentation
A slideshare of the presentation “Creative Commons & Digital Preservation” by Jane Park of Creative Commons.
Resource: Born-Digital: An Archival Approach
A Slideshare of the “Born-Digital: An Archival Approach” presentation by Jackie Dooley, Program Officer at OCLC Research to the Digital Library Federation.
Report: Crowdsourcing & Linked & Open Data: New Ways to Make Collections Visible
Report on an panel discussion on an emerging approach to meet challenges of metadata and time management, and its implications for information professionals, called Crowdsourcing & Linked & Open Data: New Ways to Make Collections Visible that SLA@Pratt organized on October 14.
Resource: “From Crowd Knowledge to Machine Knowledge: use cases with semantics & user interaction in cultural heritage collections”
Slides from “From Crowd Knowledge to Machine Knowledge: use cases with semantics & user interaction in cultural heritage collections” by Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam.