Category: Open Access & Publishing
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Publish a Technical Article to Teach Others and Support Charities
The Community site on DigitalOcean has nearly 2,000 technical tutorials on software development and Linux. The team is looking for more writers to contribute to this corpus. This opportunity enables those in the digital humanities field and researchers at large to not only share knowledge with other scholars, but with a broader, interdisciplinary developer community. […]
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Publishing Makerspace on the Road: Madison BH + DH Conference
The history of the book and its future—in both traditional and nontraditional forms—are connected in fascinating and useful ways: this is a principle that resonates strongly with the members of the Publishing Makerspace Working Group, which explains why we were attracted by the dual theme of the Book History + Digital Humanities conference at the […]
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Presenting about constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space at FemRhet
A couple weeks ago at the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference in Dayton, OH, I presented my paper “Working with/in constellations: Orienting to Feminist Scholarly Publishing Practices.” My presentation, with other co-presenters (Malea Powell and Alex Hidalgo) on the panel, focused on the newly established journal constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space, which is the first pilot […]
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Making the case for open licensing in cultural heritage institutions
For immediate release 1st September 2017 Making the case for open licensing in cultural heritage institutions Facet Publishing have announced the release of Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage by Gill Hamilton and Fred Saunderson. In the digital era, libraries, archives, museums and galleries are no longer constrained by the physical limitations of their buildings, analogue […]
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Scalar & The College Art Association
In January 2017, Dr. Nancy Um, Dr. Stephen H. Whiteman, and I embarked on a special project for the Art Bulletin. We spent seven months translating Dr. Whiteman’s review of the Seattle Art Museum’s Chinese Painting & Calligraphy Catalog onto Scalar. The text on Scalar is the same as what is written in the print journal. […]
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A Review of the Spring 2017 Digital History Reviews
Let me start by thanking Christina Davidson and Benjamin Weber for putting together this series of reviews for HASTAC. The Journal of American History has been reviewing websites and other digital projects for sixteen years and the number of other places featuring academic reviews of digital history projects has increased over the last five to […]
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On the lives of fugitives: Runaway slave advertisement databases
African descended women, men, and children who freed themselves from slavery through daring, life-threatening escapes seem to have captured the public imagination in popular culture as well as academia. The hit television show “Underground” is a fictionalized account of the Underground Railroad, a network of runaway slaves and “conductors” who gave them refuge amd transportation […]
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Creating Dynamic Research Papers or What I Learned from Scalar.
This past winter, I used Scalar to digitally publish my research on the 19th C British photographer Francis Frith and his street photographs of Cairo. My interest in his photographs was inspired by the course The Sultan’s Palace taught by Dr. Nancy Um, Associate Professor of Art History, at Binghamton […]
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What Would Digital Humanists Save?
I believe the choices presented in this scenario have parallels in our ongoing discussion of what constitutes the humanities, the digital, and the digital humanities. In other words, I would generally expect someone who greatly appreciates or is a student of the humanities to opt to save the book on the shelf. Similarly, I […]
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Blogification of the Humanities
One of the primary reasons I decided to take this course instead of others was not a compelling interest to study the humanities. There were many other alternatives in the same department that could offer that experience. Instead, I wanted to see if recent developments in the digital sphere in Economics would be applicable to […]