Category: Research
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Going Digital: DVCAI’s Caribbean and Latin American Art Digital Archive
On Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday) the Shroud of Turin was shown in public. The Shroud was last exhibited in 2015. How things have changed in five years. Physical distancing protocols meant that the 2020 public viewing was not the same as it had been in years and decades past. No people actually […]
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Scholar Spotlight: Catalina Alzate
Why did you apply to HASTAC? I applied because I’m interested in understanding how a community grows and develops online, and what are the mechanisms that allow for encounter. Apart from exploring areas of shared interest in HASTAC, I find the community aspect to be essential for different forms of scholarship and activism. […]
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Discussion of Numbered Lives, Ch 3: We Don’t Do Body Counts (Ashley Hemm)
This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — Wernimont closes the first section of Numbered Lives with “We Don’t Do Body Counts,” moving past mortality counts and casualty media […]
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Digital Humanities in Asia-Pacific: A Webinar Recap
Last Friday I convened a Digital Friday webinar called Digital Humanities in Asia-Pacific with University Librarian of UC Merced Haipeng Li and Academic Librarian of New Jersey City University Min Chou. With Shu-han Rebekah Wong from Hong Kong Baptist University, both are co-editors of the newest edited volume called Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends […]
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How to Cope with the Dreaded–I mean, AMAZING– “Revise and Resubmit”
The Dreaded Amazing “Revise and Resubmit” Perhaps the biggest turning point in my career as a researcher and writer came the day that it dawned on me that receiving a “revise and resubmit” (or any kind of professional feedback) was a gift, not a curse and a condemnation. The first few times, it felt like, […]
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Grant Writing and Digital Projects
Ode to the beloved grant application–being forced to engage in that awkward dance of showcasing your brilliant project proposal while featuring why you, with all of your skills and experience, are the ideal candidate to execute your project without gloating too much or simply regurgitating your CV in narrative form. Though most seem to sigh and groan […]
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From Archive Data to DH Practice: Starting a new Digital Humanities Project
At the University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC), archivist Amanda Moreno has been collaborating with the Digital Humanities Support team of the Richter Libraries to create “Global Cuba Collections,” a digital map of Cuban archives located in the U.S. and around the world. Below, I discuss some of the initial steps in developing “Global […]
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A HASTAC Scholar’s first book
Hey folks! I’m a former HASTAC Scholar, and SILS Alumni. My first book is coming out in August– just finished indexing it today– and I wanted to let everyone know about it. Comic Book Collections and Programming: A Practical Guide for Librarians is part of the Practical Guide for Librarians series. In it I talk about comics in libraries, purchasing and […]
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New book provides an accessible and engaging guide to managing research data
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Andrew Cox and Eddy Verbaan’s Exploring Research Data Management. Research Data Management (RDM) has become a professional topic of great importance internationally. This has been driven by a number of factors including the ‘deluge of data’ arising from new types of science, a crisis in confidence in research […]
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Academic Publishing & Careers
Last week The Office of Career Planning & Professional Development hosted a Careers in Publishing Session on the 9th Floor of The Graduate Center. Al Bertrand, Associate Publishing Director of Princeton University Press was the guest speaker, and the stage was set for an informative afternoon, centered around what we should expect from a career […]