From a news announcement: MITH will host the first annual Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI), from Monday, January 7, 2013, to Friday, January 11, 2013, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. We’re delighted to be expanding the model pioneered by the highly-successful Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria...
Version 1.1 of the SobekCM MARC Library (C#) has just been released. The SobekCM MARC Library is a C# library which contains classes for working in memory with MARC records ( http://www.loc.gov/marc/ ). This allows records to be read from MarcXML and Marc21 formats. Once in memory any field or subfield can be edited, added, or...
A new version of the stand-alone SobekCM METS Editor was just released. Current users will need to uninstall the previous version before installing this version. New users can download and install the open source SobekCM METS metadata editor directly: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/software/mets The new SobekCM METS Editor version includes the following changes: Added ability from the structure map to...
SobekCM is the software engine which powers both the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) and the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) digital repositories. A new administrative tool, the SobekCM Usage Statistics Reader, was released yesterday for the SobekCM web application instance. This tool can be pointed at web IIS logs and will add the usage statistics information to...
From the UF News site, announcing a new grant that will develop collections in the UF Digital Collections (UFDC) and the SobekCM software that powers UFDC: University of Florida libraries receive $265,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Online resource will provide first-time access to hidden St. Augustine treasures GAINESVILLE,...
From the MLA newsletter, and relating directly to the new MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media to give support for the evaluation and undertaking of scholarly communications: The MLA is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an $83,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development of...
From: http://www.mla.org/news_from_mla/news_topic&topic=574 The MLA Executive Council has recently approved a revision of the association’s guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship. Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media, composed by the Committee on Information Technology, addresses the changes in scholarly communication and the digital humanities in the nearly twelve years since the original guidelines...
See the bottom of this post for links to the online stream and chat sessions. The first annual Digital Humanities Day is a joint event in partnership with Spring Interface 2012. The joint event is themed “Open Resources, Open Possibilities.” For ten years, MIT has made all of its educational content available for anyone wanting...
Citation: Latour, Bruno and Adam Lowe. “The Migration of the Aura, or How to Explore the Original through Its Facsimiles.” Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts. Eds: Thomas Bartscherer, Roderick Coover. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2011: 275-298. Latour and Lowe’s article is brilliant and needed. It speaks directly to “The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid” wherein...
UFIT’s second Research Computing Day is focused on data management. The UF Research Computing Day will be in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom (Salons A & E). Research Computing Day will be an opportunity to: Learn about data management concepts and best practices Talk to the UF Research Computing staff Advocate for new services needed...