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This week I had the great honor to speak at Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access (video recording), an effort made possible by the newly formed National Digital Initiatives team at the Library of Congress.  Huge shoutout to Kate Zwaard and Jaime Mears in particular for their leadership in putting the event together.… Continue reading Collections as Data: Conditions of Possibility

While vacillating between a sense of hope and dread as I considered the amount of energy it would take to transition a conference paper to a full article, I started building a list in my head of the various open access publishing outlets I might seek out that straddle the line between libraries and Digital… Continue reading open access, libraries + dh

I recently launched the sourcecaster with James Baker as a community resource to guide use of the command line to meet common challenges working with digital primary sources. Commands fall into the following categories: casting – changing one type of data to another type (e.g. PDF to TXT for text analysis purposes) wrangling – manipulating and navigating data (e.g.… Continue reading the sourcecaster