#dayofDH
My #dayofDH was so full of DH that I didn’t get a chance to report on it as it was happening. I did, however, find a little time over the weekend to do some reflecting. You can check out my entries...
View ArticleLibrary Support for DH
This started as a comment to Micah Vandegrift’s amazing post “What is Digital Humanities and What’s it doing in the Library?” but it got too long … so now its a blog. While I take credit (or blame) for...
View ArticleAn engaged humanities: Another essay on how to defend what we do
This post is a response to Peter Burian’s excellent piece for Inside Higher Ed late last month titled Defending the humanities. It reminded me of a theme that has run through several conversations...
View ArticleMy thoughts on Emory’s suspension of the ILA
I’ve started and stopped this post numerous times since Emory announced its decision to suspend the Institute of the Liberal Arts. Ultimately, I’ve decided that it would be cynical of me to be silent...
View ArticleThe Research Commons
The following is an abridged version of the paper I presented a few months ago at the Georgia Council of Media Organizations meeting in Macon (I added some of the pictures from my slide show). It is...
View ArticleIn Praise of Small Projects
Phrases like “disruptive technology” and “game changer” have become common if uncomfortable parts of my professional vocabulary in the past couple of years. In my role as digital scholarship...
View ArticleOn JLA and supporting library-based publishing
Its getting pretty close to the end of the semester and, as usual, I feel like I’m spinning plates. I’ve been watching out of the corner of my eye as more blog posts pop up in my Twitter feed...
View ArticleLibrarians Are Punks Too
When I first saw that Henry Rollins was going to be a keynote speaker at this year’s ACRL meeting in Indianapolis I was even happier that I was going to be there. A couple of years ago I might have...
View ArticleLibrary and IT Partnerships for Supporting Digital Humanities: 5 Steps for...
A few weeks ago I was asked to participate in a webinar on the topic of how libraries and IT can get started supporting digital humanities. It was a really fun group of presenters and I was happy to be...
View ArticleCNI Presentation: Using the Amazon Cloud to Host Digital Scholarship Projects
At the Spring CNI meeting in April Jay Varner and I presented the work we have been doing in the Digital Scholarship Commons Emory Center for Digital Scholarship using Amazon cloud hosting for all of...
View ArticleDigital Humanities or Just Humanities
[ This is the text of a brief talk I wrote as part of the Makers' Culture and the Future of English Studies panel at the 2013 meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. I would like to...
View ArticleSummerhill: The neighborhood the Braves will leave behind
The announcement yesterday that the Atlanta Braves will leave downtown Atlanta for suburban Cobb county made me wonder about the future of the Braves current neighborhood, Summerhill. When I started...
View ArticleNotes on Text and Data Mining for Libraries
On Wednesday (2/19/2014) I attended a webinar organized by the folks at the Center for Research Libraries on the topic of Text and Data Mining. Each of the speakers focused on what libraries can be...
View ArticleEvery day, in every way …
(this is the post I wrote for Day of DH 2014. You can read it in that context over here: http://dayofdh2014.matrix.msu.edu/stewartvarner/2014/04/10/every-day-in-every-way/ ) In my role as the digital...
View ArticleProject Charter
Since starting my awesome new gig here at the University of North Carolina, the one thing I have been asked to pass around is this template for project charters we used to use when I was at Emory. So,...
View ArticleProject Proposal Form
A couple of days ago I posted a Project Charter template we used to use in the Digital Scholarship Commons at Emory. A charter is a relatively light weight document we used to facilitate the planning...
View ArticleDigital Humanities Overview for Librarians
This is a slightly cleaned up transcript of a short talk a presented as part of the month “Collections and Services” meeting for the University of North Carolina libraries. Collections and Services is...
View ArticleTRLN Lightning Talk: Doc South Data
[This is the text from a lightning talk I gave at the Triangle Research Library Network Annual Meeting on July 23, 2014. It was just 6 minutes so not much room for detail. I will probably be working on...
View ArticleBrief remarks on open data and the library as creative space
On October 23, 2014, I was honored to be part of a great panel discussion on the subject of open data as part of the University of North Carolina’s Open Access Week celebration. I want to thank Anne...
View ArticleThe 2014 Scholarly Communications Institute: Research Triangle Edition
The Institute The Scholarly Communications Institute is a long running program, supported by the Mellon Foundation. The philosophy of SCI is to identify those promising hives of activity around...
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