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Carrie Johnston deposited Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management- MLA 2020 panel abstract in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
This panel will consider the changing landscape of research support for digitally-inflected scholarship in higher education through the lens of digital humanities project management. Digital humanists acting as project managers must continually adapt their practices in response to shifting institutional priorities and concomitant changes in the…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited Period, Theme, Event: Locating Information History in History in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Explores ‘information history’, or the study of information and its practices, as a way to arrange investigations of past and present. An invited contribution for the volume, “Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach,” edited by Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke van Faassen, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong, and Ronald Sluijter (London:…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Universities should be working for the greater good in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 months ago
This is the submission (unedited) version of the article published in Times Higher Education on April 11, 2019, which argues that the market-based competition that fuels so much of academic life is doing us all far more harm than good.
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
<h1>Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South</h1>
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more] -
Paige Morgan deposited Delivering on the Deliverables in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Many digital humanists in centers or libraries—interdisciplinary positions that cater to multiple departments—are expected to demonstrate the products of their digital labor to high-ranking administrators and stakeholders on a consistent basis. As such, they often are on tight and over-extended timelines to produce high-quality digital sch…[Read more]
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Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 10 months ago
This chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams deposited ‘Irreversible’: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 10 months, 1 week ago
Since mid-2005, archivist–activists at the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala have been digitizing a century’s worth of previously suppressed police
records so as to protect, mobilize and provide access to them – 23 million pages to date. We find that digitization amplified the staff’s repurposing of the archive to serve v…[Read more] -
Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 11 months ago
Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] -
Marlene Manoff deposited Archive and Library in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
Archives and libraries operate within a complex web of social, political and economic forces. Digital technologies, globalization, the corporatization of the academy, and increasing commercial control of the scholarly record are just some of the myriad forces shaping their evolution. Libraries and archives in turn have shaped the production of…[Read more]
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Spencer Keralis deposited Disrupting Labor in the Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
Digital humanists have a labor problem, but it’s not what you might think. In this chapter, I describe the problem of student labor in digital humanities as I see it, and examine some of the structural issues that drive the use of student labor. I place the labor economy of digital humanities projects within the broader context of the innovation e…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson deposited Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
Slides from MLA 2019 session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” an open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum.
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Paige Morgan deposited This Talk Doesn’t Have A Name in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 12 months ago
This talk discusses various aspects of working with data: the choices that we make when we create data, when we analyze data, and some of the social implications of those choices.
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Christopher Warren deposited Historiography’s Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Behind the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a deep substrate that includes a vast data management system, highly detailed SGML markup conventions, extensive international labor, and the enormous cultural weight of the Victorian-era DNB. In this article, I argue that it is only by investigating components of our historiographical…[Read more]
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David Squires deposited Open Access and the Theological Imagination in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The past twenty years have witnessed a mounting crisis in academic publishing. Companies such as Reed-Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and Taylor and Francis have earned unprecedented profits by controlling more and more scholarly output while increasing subscription rates to academic journals. Thus publishers have consolidated their influence despite…[Read more]
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Paige Morgan deposited The consequences of framing digital humanities tools as easy to use in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
This article examines the recurring ways in which some of the most popular DH tools are presented as easy to use. It argues that attempts to couch powerful tools in what is often false familiarity, directly undermines the goal of encouraging scholarly innovation and risk taking. The consequences of framing digital tools as either easy or more…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
I look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. As a result of the lim…[Read more]
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