Digital Humanities and Libraries

  • Archeomatica is a “new, multidisciplinary journal, printed in Italy, devoted to the presentation and the dissemination of advanced methodologies, emerging technologies and techniques for the knowledge, documentation, safeguard, conservation and exploitation of cultural heritage. The journal aims to publish papers of significant and lasting value written by scientists, conservators and archaeologists involved on this field with the diffusion of specific new methodologies and experimental results. Archeomatica will also emphasize fruitful discussion on the best up-to-date scientific applications and exchanging ideas and findings related to any aspect of the cultural heritage sector.”
  • Arts-Humanities Net.
  • D-Lib Magazine focuses on digital library research and development. While primarily focused on digital librarians, it tries, and usually succeeds to present matters in a way that all of us invested in such matters can understand.
  • ACLS’s Humanities E-Book is “a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records.”
  • CATMA (Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis) is an open source software with a focus on textual markup and analysis. CATMA is a practical and intuitive tool for literary scholars, students and other parties with an interest in literary research.
  • Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (ISSN 1918-3666) is a refereed academic journal, publishing three times a year and serving as a formal arena for scholarly activity and as an academic resource for researchers in the digital humanities. DS/CN is published by the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI), an organisation affiliated with the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) through the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO).
  • HASTAC (pronounced hay-stack) is “a consortium of humanists, artists, social scientists, and engineers committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology.”
  • NEH Institute: Networks and Network Analysis
  • Digital Scholarship maintains an open access bibliography which includes not only a list of journals but also guides to setting up open access materials.
  • Sometimes we need to think about standards and how to go about setting them. I went to this blog in hopes that it was about how to set up and successfully run a consortium, but it turns out its real purpose might be just as useful: it’s about how to set up standards via a consortium: ConsortiumInfo.
  • TaPOR maintins a lists of tools.
  • Intute.

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Bloggers Who Write

Perhaps an obvious distinction, perhaps not. Writing here may not be the verb that captures what matters, but “writers who blog” gets into the realm of the pretentious — well, usually dealing with people who call themselves “writers” gets you there. The pieces published by the folks/sites below are considered, thoughtful, and generally reveal an individual mind working out for themselves some detail of the world, rather than yet another piece of the web-collective talking into the echo chamber.

  • Michael Lopp writes Rands in Repose which has a publication schedule somewhat like Paul Graham’s site (see below): he aims to publish something about once a week. Like Graham, Lopp also has a book out: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
  • I first came across Paul Graham in the guise of his very interestingly titled book, Hackers and Painters, and then found his eponymously-named website. Graham is a coder cum entrepreneur cum brilliant essayist — perhaps one of the best working in the genre now. (If you want a great example, take a look at his essay “The List of N Things”.)
  • Perhaps the best known of these technologists/essayists is Joel Sposky, whose blog Joel on Software also ended up being compiled into a print book (and another) as well as an anthology he edited of the best writing on software.
  • Finally, John Gruber is someone who decently moves back and forth between blogging and writing. I like him best when he’s doing the latter, and he’s stated at various events that his goal is to write about software in a way that it might grace the pages of The New Yorker — I think that’s setting the bar at the pretentious and previous, but Gruber seems to avoid that particular failing of TNY. Gruber is alone among this crowd in not having a book out, but perhaps that is not far away. Certainly his writing would be worth having on paper.