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Report: Across the Great Divide

From “Across the Great Divide: Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships”: Partnerships and collaborations have become standard responses to the multiple challenges that both higher education and scholarly publishing face. Organizing the work of the academy, either on one campus or across […]

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Report: Towards an Open Humanities Data Platform

From the post: DARIAH recently released a report on open access publishing of research data in the humanities. It is part of DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale project (HaS). As an output of work package 7 the report is a first step in the design process of an Open Humanities Data Platform, which will be the […]

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Report: 2016 Virtual Symposium Proceedings

From the posting: We are pleased to announce that content from the Virtual Symposium on Information and Technology in the Arts and Humanities is now available for viewing or download on YouTube and figshare. Presenter slides are available at http://figshare.com/authors/Symposium_on_Information_and_technolology_in_the_arts_and_humanities/740215 Symposium presentation recordings are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2v-vQy9W5DeXsuC5-l-T65WgFrPFKNDk Source: 2016 Virtual Symposium Proceedings | ASIS&T SIG AH

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Report: NLM Workshop: Images and Texts in Medical History

From the report: Seventy-five participants and observers gathered at the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) in April 2016 to explore innovative methods and data sources useful for analyzing large quantities of images and texts in the field of medical history. … Workshop participants exchanged ideas on a variety of related topics, including current best practices in […]

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Report: Cloud-Based Big Data Management and Analytics for Scholarly Resources: Current Trends, Challenges and Scope for Future Research

From the Report: With the shifting focus of organizations and governments towards digitization of academic and technical documents, there has been an increasing need to use this reserve of scholarly documents for developing applications that can facilitate and aid in better management of research. In addition to this, the evolving nature of research problems has […]

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Report: Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics and Society

From the announcement: The Council for Big Data, Ethics and Society, an interdisciplinary working group established in 2014, has just this week issued a report titled “Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics and Society” summarizing and synthesizing much of their thinking over the past two years. The report can be downloaded here: http://bdes.datasociety.net/council-output/perspectives-on-big-data-ethics-and-society/  

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Report: The Programming Historian’s Commitment to Diversity

If you spend too much time inside a project, you soon become unable to see its faults. At The Programming Historian, I suspect we fell victim to that problem.  We are not so proud to admit that amongst our contributing authors, we’re predominantly male: Only 7 women and 23 men. We’re also predominantly white and North […]