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by Francesca Giannetti and Joseph Goeller Last October, we assembled a panel of six outstanding speakers representing a range of perspectives to talk about open access and humanities scholarship. Open access in the sciences, a.k.a. Open Science, has become well established, especially so after the 2013 and 2022 Memoranda from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) reinforcing the idea that everyone, not just scholars at wealthy institutions, should have access to important and useful research, especially so when that research is paid for with public money. What is less well appreciated is that the 2022 memo—also known as the Nelson memo—providesRead More →

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I am frequently asked about the Rutgers environment for creating scholarly websites. I am always happy to come to classes to guide people through this terrain, but in the interest of serving the broader Rutgers DH community, I am sharing these slightly opinionated thoughts about web publishing here. I mostly presume a Rutgers audience, although I do include some external recommendations that would be good for anybody looking to publish their scholarship to the web. This post borrows from Andrew Goldstone’s “Notes on Using Digital Media for First-Year Graduate Students,” which goes into further detail on DH and on being an academic on the web.Read More →

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by Caterina Agostini and Francesca Giannetti Introduction Earlier this year, Rutgers was invited to become a participant in the beta evaluation of ITHAKA JSTOR’s Constellate, a text analysis and pedagogy platform. As a result, we have had early view into a rapidly evolving service that aims to advance text analytics pedagogy. While pedagogy is its main thrust at the moment, Constellate is a fairly complex offering that is structured around three “pillars”: data, pedagogy, and research. For readers who are familiar with JSTOR’s Data for Research (DfR) program, which has provided researchers with bibliographic metadata, unigrams, bigrams, and trigrams for JSTOR journals and books sinceRead More →

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Are you interested in learning how to use, work with, and even create IIIF manifests and images? Join a new DH group on February 3, 6:00-7:00 pm (online). No prior knowledge required. We will share links and demos for anyone interested in IIIF projects. Practice is a priority in the interests of this informal group, in a Rutgers digital-oriented community. Organized by Ben Bakelaar (bakelaar AT rutgers.edu) and Caterina Agostini (caterina.agostini AT rutgers.edu). Register in advance for this meeting: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwoceusqD4uH9GVibU3b_OOz2QRS2phjVBU After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Image source: Marii Nyrop, “Static IIIF Annotations.”Read More →

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We are back for the next pandemic installment of digital humanities programming. This online-only schedule of events includes several new offerings based on feedback from our past workshops, for which we are grateful. We continue to use the LibCal reservation system together with the rest of the New Brunswick Libraries Graduate Specialist Program. Please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to reserve your spot (the information is the same in both places). The digital humanities workshops will be taught by Wafa Isfahani and Caterina Agostini, Digital Humanities Graduate Specialists, and Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian. Watch this list for newer additions later in February. NoteRead More →