On January 16, 2025, Remains // An Archive, a seed lab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, a part of the LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure ecosystem, held a conversation at the Baltimore Museum of Art with four artists who created works to illuminate Remains’ research for its Slavery in Motion project. Dr. Brooke Mai, LifexCode […]
It is wonderful to be collaborating with Leeds Libraries on their online Games Jam this month, which is encouraging people to create playful interactive adaptations of books in the BBC’s Novels that Shaped Our World list. In my experience game jams are a brilliant way of bringing historic and literary digital library and archive collections […]
Each spring, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) organizes an annual meeting and an accompanying national advocacy day, in which representatives from most states meet with congressional offices to make the case for federal funding of the humanities. In 2020, 184 individuals representing 41 states held 287 meetings with congressional offices on Capitol Hill. Ithaka S+R […]
Over the past year British Library staff have contributed to the AHRC-funded project”Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship”. Led by James Baker, University of Sussex, the project set out to demonstrate the value of corpus linguistic methods and computational tools to the study of legacies of catalogues and cultural institutions’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Wednesday 19th November I attended the UK Web Archive (UKWA) mini-conference 2020, my first conference as a Graduate Trainee Digital Archivist. It was hosted by Jason Webber, Engagement Manager at the UKWA and, as normal in these COVID times, it was hosted on Zoom (my first ever Zoom experience!) Read full post here.
Over the past couple of years, the Digital Archive Research Collective (DARC) has created resources and fostered community among digital archivists and researchers at The Graduate Center. As part of our effort to build a community of practice around digital archival work, we created a Wiki with articles on various resources for archival research, led […]
Welcome to the blog of the CUNY DHI, an effort to build momentum and community around Digital Humanities practitioners at CUNY. We hope you’ll join us at our upcoming events and that you’ll follow this blog to hear about the latest news in the field. Read full post here.
This report, published by the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI), lists a set of recommendations for SSI to further its activity in and engagement with the Digital Humanities community in the UK. Read full post here.
