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The Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University is seeking a Post-Doctoral Associate, with an annual salary of $50,000, with experience in Digital Humanities to identify, select, and help implement digital tools that can enhance the usability of the project’s digital book and image editions, make its metadata more accessible, and better integrate its editions. The selective book edition of transcribed and annotated documents is in the process of being transitioned to open-access PDF and EPUB3 formats on Johns Hopkins University Press’s Project Muse while our image edition of more than 154,000 documents uses the Omeka-S platform.  In addition, part of the image edition published originally asRead 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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By Ben Bakelaar and Caterina Agostini   IIIF is an acronym that stands for International Image Interoperability Format. An easy way to think of IIIF is like a webpage. A webpage is built with HTML, via hypertext markup language. It pulls together text, images, and other multimedia into a single view. In the same way, a IIIF object is built using JSON, and links together metadata and powerful image capabilities which allow institutions to deliver ultra-high resolution images quickly and efficiently to a IIIF viewer. Any image (and even audio and video) can become a IIIF object by building a manifest that uses the IIIF standard to describe itsRead More →

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By Caterina Agostini and Ben Bakelaar   Digital images and tools are attracting the interest of scholars in the humanities. In particular, the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) allows for high quality images and supports a variety of uses and applications including deep zoom, comparison, annotation, and transcription of digital images. With the current pandemic limiting travel and access to libraries and museums, in the Spring 2021 we founded a new DH Special Interest Group at Rutgers focused on IIIF. In the first meeting, we shared our work and research interests and connected with members of the Rutgers community, from Rutgers University Libraries, the OfficeRead 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 →