Interesting recent perspectives on Google Books from Backchannel and The Atlantic, and another article from Mike Furlough giving his perspective on the two articles. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ https://storify.com/MikeFurlough/what-libraries-did-with-google-books https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d ...
There is a call for submissions for the first annual Current Research in Digital History conference, hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The one day conference publishes online and peer-reviewed proceedings, and aims to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history. The deadline for submission is September 29, 2017 and the conference will be held on...
Join us at the Digital Scholar Studio on Wednesday, April 19th for a workshop on Piktochart given by Shadee Rios. Piktochart is an online tool for making presentations, infographics and print-ready graphics. https://piktochart.com/ As always, presentations will be made available online at http://libguides.fiu.edu/digitalscholar ...
Throughout the spring and summer, SEFLIN will be presenting online digitization-related courses offered by Lyrasis. https://www.seflin.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=SEFLIN&WebCode=EventList&FromSearchControl=Yes The courses will be offered for group viewing at the Digital Scholar Studio (GL 540), but one can register to watch the courses on their own on the above link. ...
There are many 18th, 19th and early 20th century U.S. and international digitized newspapers available online. Here are just a few sites that feature some newspaper digitization efforts- some of which are ongoing projects. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ndnp/newspapers The University of Florida has digitized countless Florida newspapers, with some dating back to the 1880's. Also available on the site are Puerto Rican newspapers digitized by their partner, The University of Puerto...
The Digitization Cost Calculator, a project undertaken by the Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group's working group on Cost Assessment, uses best practices and guidelines to determine the costs of digitization projects. The goal is to best.assist organizations in digitization project planning and benchmarking. http://dashboard.diglib.org/ ...
There is a Call for Papers for "Invisible work in the Digital Humanities" , a special issue for Digital Humanities Quarterly (2018). Among the questions and topics that are suggested for contributions for this issue are "What is the nature of invisible work in the digital humanities, to whom is this work invisible, and why might they not see it?", and "How might we argue for...
On March 23rd the GIS Center will offer Intro to GIS and Georeferencing Images in ArcGIS. Program: Introduction to GIS Introduction to Coordinate System Overview in ArcGIS (basic tools and table of attribute) Georeferencing images Please contact Sheyla Aguilar de Santana at shaguila@fiu.edu to RSVP. ...
Scott B. Weingart, the Digital Humanities Specialist at Carnegie Mellon University, has created a guide to Book-length analytic coding for Digital Humanities. The guide, a Google document, is open for editing and lists both digital and print resources for analytic coding, computational math/stats, and other software development written specifically for humanists. Check out the document here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lnmu7ET-HD-kPsbgtWVzf4PlhWx3W6LpKhqup3DWzG0/edit#gid=0 and Weingart's blog: http://scottbot.net/ ...