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The Way of Improvement Leads Home

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:30:42 -0000

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Over at ProfHacker, Adeline Koh of Richard Stockton College has started a conversation about how the digital humanities can be done outside the research university. This is something that we wrestle with on a daily basis at Messiah College under the leadership of our Dean of Humanities, Peter Powers. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field, higher education

by: Kurt Fendt

Princeton grad student takes on the humanities crisis from a decidedly gendered perspective | Inside Higher Ed

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:29:46 -0000

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by: Kurt Fendt

Programming Librarian

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:28:41 -0000

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Taking the Humanities Online Jayna Ramsey | July 03, 2013 Once again, we're having student volunteers blog programs of interest from the ALA Annual Conference. This time, Jayna Ramsey covers "Humanities In the Digital Era: Mashing up Public Programs with MOOCS, Media, and More," held on Saturday, June 29, at 1 pa.m. - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

Digital humanities: Critical views and experiences

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:26:48 -0000

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'Digital humanities' has exploded in recent years, with new journals and research groups, dedicated funding streams from research councils, numerous conferences, workshops and books. Of course, digital technologies can be used in myriad ways to facilitate the research process, to enable new forms of analysis, and to enhance the dissemination process. - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: The .txtual Condition: Digital Humanities, Born-Digital Archives, and the Future Literary

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:25:39 -0000

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In 1995 in the midst of the first widespread wave of digitization, the Modern Language Association issued a Statement on the Significance of Primary Records in order to assert the importance of retaining books and other physical artifacts even after they have been microfilmed or scanned for general consumption. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field, digital publishing, open content

by: Kurt Fendt

Digital History Abounds: A Roundup of Recent NEH Grant Projects

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:23:35 -0000

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With the recent proliferation of the digital humanities (DH) in and outside the academy, we thought it might be useful to draw attention to the kinds of projects historians are developing. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: history

by: Kurt Fendt

#OAbooks in the HSS: Contexts, Conversations, Technologies and Communities of Practice

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:22:46 -0000

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Last week I attended the first major conference entirely dedicated to Open Access books in the HSS, in the British Library, organised by OAPEN and JISC. The two-day conference had a fantastic line-up of keynote speakers, established and new experimental projects in open access book publishing, and practical strands on funding, publishing for scholars and the Open Access supply chain. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: libraries, open content

by: Kurt Fendt

Susan Schreibman: History and Futures of Digital Humanities

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:21:08 -0000

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Presentation at the 1st Bern Summer School, June 2013 - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

New Services, New Skills, and Renewing Staff

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:16:03 -0000

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Recently, I've found myself in several different conversations about the shift many academic libraries are making to support digital scholarship in its various formulations. These discussions usually unfold around questions of what skill sets are needed to support digital scholarship, however the concept is defined at a particular institution, and how libraries can manifest these new skill sets within their organizations. - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture " Updates

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:28:00 -0000

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Scalar in use at UCLA Digital Humanities NEH Summer Institute "Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship and Teaching in the Geospatial Humanities," the UCLA NEH Summer Institute led by Todd Presner, Diane Favro, and Chris Johanson, is now underway. Many of the summer fellows will use Scalar (along with Hypercities) for constructing their projects. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: visualizations, digital publishing

by: Kurt Fendt

Zs: Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (HSR) 37 (2012), 3; Sozialgeschichte und -wissenschaften, Wirtschaftsgeschichte und -wissenschaften

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:25:49 -0000

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Historical Social Research Vol. 37 (2012), No. 3 Special Issue Manfred Thaller (Ed.): Controversies around the Digital Humanities Focus Eric A. Johnson, Ricardo D. - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

The future is here: Public history education and the rise of digital history | History@Work

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:24:25 -0000

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David Walsh's article on the History News Network, "Public History's Great Showing at the 2012 NCPH/OAH Annual Meeting," observed not only the vitality of public historians within the historical field, but also the unique relationship between public history and digital history. - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

Call for participants: SCMS workshop on digital humanities and film/media studies | Miriam Posner's Blog

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:12:07 -0000

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Among those who care about such things, it's become clear that there's a bit of a divide between film and media studies, often thought to be primarily theoretical or historical, and digital humanities, which often emphasizes the importance of hacking or making. Is such a divide irresolvable? Let's find out! - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

On the Digital Humanities | Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:15:44 -0000

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Should readers with a non-professional interest in history and literature care about the "digital humanities"? The phrase itself isn't very helpful: it's an umbrella term covering any intersection between digital technology and humanistic learning. Digital humanists might use the Web to cooperatively transcribe a writer's journals, for instance, or use software to visualize the original layout of an archaeological site. - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

Neatline.org - plot your course in space & time

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:13:47 -0000

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Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation. - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

discontents - 4 million articles later...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:10:35 -0000

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On 15 April 1944 the Sydney Morning Herald turned inside out. For more than a hundred years, the front page had been dominated by advertisements, but this changed suddenly in 1944 as the newspaper took on a completely new look. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: visualizations, libraries, history, digitizing

by: Kurt Fendt

O rocks! Tell it to us in plain images (A THATCamp/Bloomsday Visualization) " Literature Geek

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:07:30 -0000

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At THATCamp Prime this year, I led a hack session where we discussed small digital Joycean projects we might take on that day and continue hacking at over the following weeks. Session participants were Anastasia Salter, Ben Schmidt, Chad Rutkowski (part of the Ulysses Seen team!), and Heather Prescott. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: visualizations, literature

by: Kurt Fendt

UCLA hosts institute on digital cultural mapping

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:06:10 -0000

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The Center for Digital Humanities helps interpret the cultural and social impact of new media and information technologies-the fundamental components of the new information age-as well as creates and applies these technologies to answer cultural, social, historical, and philological questions, both those traditionally conceived and those only enabled by new technologies. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: visualizations, mapping, history

by: Kurt Fendt

" Audience, Substance, and Style Journal of Digital Humanities

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:05:02 -0000

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The Editors Welcome to the second issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities. In the introduction to our first issue, we explained how the journal's content came directly from the writing, coding, and projects of our field's community of practitioners, without a traditional academic publication's process of submission. - Kurt Fendt

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by: Kurt Fendt

Digital Pedagogy Roundup - First Half of 2012 " Roger T. Whitson, Ph.D

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:03:08 -0000

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So, I thought it might be cool to post a bibliography of some of the best recent posts on digital pedagogy. I'm doing this for two reasons. First, because Rebecca Burnett sent me this tweet today. For those of you who don't know, I was a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech for two years. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: Digital Pedagogy

by: Kurt Fendt