Using Data Dictionary Creation as the Teaching Moment for Metadata
This blog was coauthored by Sara Mannheimer and Jason A. Clark. Metadata is a love note to the future…except when it’s not understood. While
May 21, 2015
The “Getting Found” Web Analytics Cookbook for Monitoring SEO of Digital Repositories
By Kenning Arlitsch Kenning Arlitsch, dean of the library at Montana State University, coauthored this blog with Patrick O’Brien, semantic web research director at Montana
May 12, 2015
A conversation between digital and “traditional” humanities
By Sayan Bhattacharyya Some time in the first decade of the twenty-first century, what used to be called “humanities computing” until then gave way to a
April 30, 2015
Cross-cultural User Research: An Example From Finland
By Molly Schwartz Large-scale cultural heritage aggregations are designed to open up access to library, archives, and museum collections on a massive scale by making
April 23, 2015
The Challenges of Preservation in the Prospects for the Digital Humanities and the Arts
By Alicia Peaker ⌘+ S. We save almost without thinking about it. With the widespread adoption of word processing software, we’ve become thoroughly conditioned to
April 16, 2015
Leading and Learning: What a Decade of CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships Has Taught Us
It is now over a decade since the first cohort of 11 CLIR postdoctoral fellows began their appointments at academic libraries across the United States.
March 26, 2015
Digital Humanities and the Visual Resources Community
By Rachel Schend The Visual Resources Association just ended its 33rd annual conference in Denver, Colorado, this past weekend. While there were many topics discussed during the seminars and
March 19, 2015
So what do we mean by “hidden”?
In January, CLIR issued the first request for proposals for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship through Increasing Access to Unique Materials. This
February 12, 2015
Does your Organizational Culture Perpetuate or Repudiate the “Impostor Syndrome” Phenomenon?
By Plato Smith Earlier last month, during one of the presentations at the First New Mexico EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Postdoc Leadership Workshop,
February 5, 2015
A Role for Librarians as Data Managers in the Life Sciences
By Vessela Ensberg This is the second of a two-part blog post that discusses incorporating data management and data sharing plans into researcher workflows. The first
January 22, 2015
Data Management Plans, Collaborative Research Governance, and the Consent to Share
By Kendall Roark This is one of a two-part blog post that discusses incorporating data management and data sharing plans into researcher workflows. The second blog
January 15, 2015
Digital Libraries and Zones of War
By Charles Henry In 2014, I began conversations with the Heritas Group, a new organization devoted to solving large-scale problems pertaining to the world’s collective cultural
January 8, 2015
