The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report is out. This is the third annual analysis of where and how funding flows (or doesn’t) to the infrastructure that underpins research and scholarly communication. Some of the disruptions over the last two years have been very loud, with budget cuts and policy shifts across the globe. Herein, […]
Our take: This week, Invest In Open released an open infrastructure toolkit, to make rescued data easier to work with. The new proof-of-concept prototype uses wildfire data as a test case in establishing better data resilience. They selected wildfire data because it is urgent, and by its very nature involves users and data sources outside […]
In a landscape where open source infrastructure routinely outlasts the funding that created it, the Corporation for Digital Scholarship (also known as Digital Scholar) has spent more than 15 years exploring a different path. Built around flagship tools used by millions of researchers worldwide, and now extending that experience to help other projects find their […]
In the summer of 2023, I was fortunate to participate in a double dose of Digital Humanities learning. I signed up for a three-day workshop Manos a la obra organized by the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, and I was the recipient of a Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium Mellon grant/fellowship. A result of this rewarding […]
When we set out in 2019 to build Constellate, our goal was to create a sustainable platform that would provide text analysis access to content in JSTOR and Portico. By the time we sunset in 2025, that had transformed into making the power of computational analysis accessible to any curious mind, whether they were a […]
This week saw the publication of Doing Public Humanities, a new collection of essays edited by Susan Smulyan and published by Routledge. Here’s the official book description from the publisher’s website: Doing Public Humanities explores the cultural landscape from disruptive events to websites, from tours to exhibits, from after school arts programs to archives, giving […]
This is a slightly extended version of a talk I presented at the Digital Library Federation 2018 Forum, held in Las Vegas in October 2018. Thanks to students in my Fall 2017 “Digital Public Humanities” course; the Providence Public Library Special Collections department; Diane O’Donoghue; Julieanne Fontana, Angela Feng, and Jasmine Chu; Monica Muñoz Martinez; Susan Smulyan; […]
This past week, I had the opportunity to give a talk as part of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage’s new US Latina/o Digital Humanities (#usLdh) Incubator series. If you missed it, you can access our group notes on Google Drive or Storify. I’ve also started a Zotero Group with a growing bibliography related to […]
