Resource: “Making an Impact: How Digitised Resources Change Lives” Slideshare
Simon Tanner, “Making an Impact: How Digitised Resources Change Lives.”
Category: Resources
Resource: “Evaluating Digital Scholarship” Essays in MLA’s “Profession 2011” Journal
Profession 2011 contains a cluster of essays concerning Promotion and Tenure for those who are working in the Digital Humanities.
Resource: The Authors Guild, Inc. et al v. Hathitrust et al Document 23
Legal response by HathiTrust to the lawsuit against them.
Resource: The Marriage of Standards and Access: Centralized Services as a Tool for Collaboration, Publication and Curation
By Elijah Meeks
…This is fundamentally an argument directed at administrators looking to support digital humanities work at their universities and not researchers looking to perform digital humanities work, but it is meant to push that latter group toward agitating for action from the former. I’ve had enough experience now with digital humanities projects to know that when you’re collaborating with computer scientists or contracting developer resources without a sense of standardized, centralized resources, then the data, code and tool decisions tend to be made based on expediency or a desire to experiment with new, unsupported and/or experimental technologies.
Resource: Teaching DH 101: Introduction to the Digital Humanities
NITLE Event: Teaching DH 101: Introduction to the Digital Humanities.
December 16, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Seminar organizers encourage faculty, instructional technologists, librarians, and others interested in digital scholarship, digital humanities, and related projects to attend this seminar in institutional teams if possible. This seminar will be especially interesting to those interested in how to teach digital humanities to undergraduates. (Times EST)
Resource: Database of Bookbindings
This database is a finding aid to the British Library’s bookbinding collections. It includes information and images for selected items from the Library’s rich collection of fine bindings of books printed in western Europe from the fifteenth century to date. There is also a selection from the valuable bookbindings collections of the Library’s partner, the National Library of the Netherlands. The database is a work in progress and its scope will be widened as resources allow.
via The British Library – Database of Bookbindings – Default
Resource: The museum website as a newspaper – an interview with Walker Art Center
So with all that comes the new Walker Art Center website. Launched yesterday it represents a potential paradigm shift for institutional websites.
Resource: Webinar on Badge System Models and Design from the Digital Media and Learning Competition
Yesterday we held our second webinar of phase 2, “Badge System Models and Design.” It featured a great presentation by Carla Cassilli of Mozilla about the many considerations of designing an effective digital badge system. You can watch the video below, or at http://youtu.be/zCAy5weZyHc, and you can download the slides directly as a PDF right here.
Resource: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Resource: Launch of the British Newspaper Archive
The British Library and online publisher brightsolid today launch a website that will transform the way that people use historical newspapers to find out about the past. The British Newspaper Archive website will offer access to up to 4 million fully searchable pages, featuring more than 200 newspaper titles from every part of the UK and Ireland. The newspapers – which mainly date from the 19th century, but which include runs dating back to the first half of the 18th century – cover every aspect of local, regional and national news.