Category Archives: Libraries

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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Talk: Tools, Scaling and Support

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Matt Shoemaker

The session today on Omeka raised questions we have been wrestling with on support and scaling for tools in the digital humanities.  What has been working and what has not?  How do you decide on what tools, versions, plugins, etc. … Continue reading →

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Digital Preservation in the Humanities

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Lauren Goodley

I’m proposing this as a ‘talk’ session. I’m sure I don’t have much to add, but I’m wondering what considerations for digital preservation (security, metadata) may be unique to DH. Any roadblocks, requirements that others have found, particularly when working … Continue reading →

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Using Neatline w/Omeka or other Open-Source Geospatial/Temporal Tools?

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Michelle Dalmau

Let’s meet up, demo our projects, and share secrets.  Ultimately we are interested in providing baseline workflows and best practices for geospatial discovery layers for our core digital library collections that can be adapted and customized for digital research projects. … Continue reading →

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Engaging Academic Patrons with Digital Libraries

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Joshua Morgan

For the majority of the life Clemson University Libraries’ digital imaging lab we’ve been concentrating on a large IMLS grant and digitizing over 150,000 items from the national and state park systems, compared to the meager 10,000 items we have … 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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Talk Session: Servicing for Digital Humanities in the Library

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Matt Shoemaker

There are many models and potential library patrons for digital humanities services in the library.  What services have you offered and to whom and how have been your results?  What systems and tools have you been hosting or training on? … Continue reading →

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