Category: Resources

Scholars’ Lab. Today, the Scholars’ Lab is proud to announce the launch of Neatline, our set of Omeka plugins for hand-crafted geo-temporal visualization and interpretation. You can head right over to http://neatline.org/ to download the 1.0 software, see sample exhibits or play in the sandbox, and read more about the project, including news and history. Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps and narrative sequences […]

A Digital Asset Sustainability and Preservation Cost Bibliography « The Signal: Digital Preservation. Back in the early days of the NDIIPP program we had a series of cross-cutting initiatives that we called “affinity groups.” These groups addressed areas of interest such as “collection and selection,” “technical architecture” and “rights and restrictions” that cut across all the different […]

It’s all about YoU(lysses) | modernist versions project. The Modernist Versions Project’s Year of Ulysses (YoU) initiative will introduce James Joyce’s masterpiece to its widest audience ever, provoke people to read it, support them as they do so, and bring this novel of the everyday back into everyday life. Thanks to the remarkable efforts of MVP associates […]

Digitization in the Real World highlights 34 cases of digital collection building in libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions throughout North America. This book is written by practitioners for practitioners focusing on lessons learned from small to medium-sized digitization projects. Digitization in the Real World was edited by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma. […]

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). Special issue on corpus and computational linguistics, philology, and the linguistic heritage of humanity.

Yale U. Press Digitizes Stalin’s Massive Personal Archive | Publishing Perspectives. Over the last two years Yale University Press and the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History have been quietly digitizing Stalin’s personal archive, consisting of thousands of documents, letters, and books, that passed through the Soviet leader’s hands. Vadim Staklo, the editor overseeing […]

Digital Pedagogy Roundup – First Half of 2012 » Roger T. Whitson, Ph.D. For those of you who don’t know, I was a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech for two years. First-year fellows participate in a postdoctoral seminar called dped, which is short for digital pedagogy. Rebecca’s request looked like a great opportunity for me […]

Taking Notes at #THATCamp This past weekend was THATCamp Prime 2012 at the George Mason’s Center for History and New Media, and thanks to a few cancellations, I got the chance to join in the fun and rub elbows with 100+ DHers. Like many other attendees, I drove home with a browser full of links and a host […]

Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works. In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important. This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. It covers digital […]

||| 臺灣大學數位典藏研究發展中心 (Research Center for Digital Humanities)|||. The Research center for Digital Humanities is committed to creating a complete digital research environment. The center also conducts research and continues to digitally preserve Taiwan’s important, unique and delicate cultural artifacts and historical resources. After the initial task of digitalization is complete, the center’s resources will be […]