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Resource: Free access to all Cambridge Journals content from 2012

Free access to all Cambridge Journals content from 2012 « CJO « Cambridge Journals Blog. From 22nd January – 5th March, all Cambridge Journals content published in 2012 will be available for free on CJO.  All you have to do is register. There’s a lot you can do in 6 weeks; it’s long enough to watch the […]

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Resource: mid 19th century Paper Dolls Collection

Guide to the Paper Dolls Collection mid 19th century. The dolls in this collection appear to date from the mid-19th century. Their exact date and place of origin are unknown. The first Western paper dolls appeared in 18th century Paris during the reign of Louis XV. Several sources assert their existence in 9th century Japan. […]

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Resource: The Digital Walters – Digitized Walters Manuscripts

The Digital Walters – Digitized Walters Manuscripts. The Walters Art Museum houses an extraordinary collection of some 850 illuminated manuscripts from diverse cultures around the world. Full digital surrogates of many of these manuscripts are available on this website. We hope you enjoy them and incorporate them into your work and projects.

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Resource: The Catholic Pamphlets Collection

The Catholic Pamphlets Collection | Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) Blog. The Catholic Pamphlets collection at the University of Notre Dame contains a wide variety of pamphlets, booklets, and other documents pertaining to Catholicism or the Church in some way. The collection is located at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Hesburgh Library, […]

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Resource: “Accessibility & the Digital Humanities” Presentation

I recently presented a brown bag session on accessibility and the digital humanities for the Alabama Digital Humanities Center. The sources referenced in my session, along with some related resources, are listed below (crossposted from the ADHC blog). They are also available via the Diigo collaborative bookmarking site: mbfortson’s adhc_a11y Bookmarks on Diigo. Accessibility & the Digital […]

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Resource: Introducing version control & git in 1.5 hours to undergraduates

Introducing version control & git in 1.5 hours to undergraduates – Coffee|Code : Dan Scott. Our university offers a Computer Science degree, but the formal curriculum does not cover version control (or a number of other common tools and practices in software development). Students that have worked for me in part-time jobs or summer positions have […]

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Resource: Research Data Curation Bibliography, updated 1/14/2013

The Research Data Curation Bibliography includes selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. For broader coverage of the digital curation literature, see the author’s Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works,which presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical […]

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Resource: Anthologize 0.7

Version 0.7 includes a number of important, under-the-hood improvements. Some highlights: The way Anthologize loads itself has been largely rewritten, which means that it fires up more reliably – and using fewer resources – than ever before. Some validation issues with epub exportsr have been cleared up In previous version of Anthologize, PDF exports sometimes […]

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Resource and CFParticipation: Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories Open for Comment from MediaCommons Press

Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well being of born-digital materials transferred from donors to archival repositories. The main body of the report surveys the primary issues and concerns related to born-digital acquisitions and is intended for a broad audience with varying levels of […]