Category Archives: General

The Co-evolution of Libraries and DH

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Stewart Varner

The emergence of digital humanities from a relatively marginal space in the academy to its recent celebrity has clearly had an impact on libraries. Positions have been created, resources have been reallocated and staff have been re-skilled. However, it is … Continue reading →

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Digital Preservation to overlay a file structure

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Wilhelmina Randtke

I am with St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio. The law library has been using Omeka to build a digital collection. A critical missing piece of this as a repository platform is that Omeka does not have … Continue reading →

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Talk: Accessibility and our DH Projects

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Meghan Musolff

Inspired by Char Booth’s closing keynote presentation, I would like to discuss how we ensure our DH projects are accessible to the widest possible audiences. Where does the accessibility review happen in your project workflow? Are your institutions crafting accessibility … Continue reading →

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Talk: Race in DH: Librarians’ Responsibilities

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Kristen Hogan

The inaugural issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities (Winter 2011) published Moya Z. Bailey’s article “All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave.” Her title draws on a vital text … Continue reading →

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Visualize This: Gigantic Video Walls

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Mike Nutt

When the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University was planned, NCSU Libraries made the strategic decision to build immersive visualization spaces throughout the building, including four large, public, architecturally-integrated video walls. These visualization displays allow the … Continue reading →

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Mapping out the landscape outside the library: partnerships for DH on campus?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Delphine Khanna

Who else does DH or DH-like activities on campus? From the isolated faculty in a corner, to pockets of activity in specific schools, academic departments, or other campus units, all the way to a full fledged “DH Center” elsewhere on … Continue reading →

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A Newby

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Melinda Creech

I am just becoming acquainted with digital humanities. I don’t have any resources to learn about it at my institution. I have a couple of projects that I am interested in doing. One has to do with a file of … Continue reading →

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650 x| Computer network resources (Discussion of dh and discoverability)

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Sarah Potvin

In a recent tweet from THATCamp New England, archivist Andrew Berger asked: “Thinking about DH projects and discovery: do libraries put these kinds of resources in the catalog/discovery layer/etc? #THATCampNE.” Berger pointed to the University of Virginia’s catalog record for … Continue reading →

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Full up! Register for Wait List

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Matt Shoemaker

THATCamp Digital Humanities and Libraries has been very popular and we have hit our attendance cap. Please continue to register on this site to be added to the wait list. The earlier you sign up, the higher on the list … Continue reading →

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