Getting Started with Digital Humanities in the Library

https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/943646141In this chapter, Zach Coble details the skills, experiences, and training necessary to get started with digital humanities in libraries. After providing a brief outline of the different types of digital humanities work, we will examine six categories of skills that digital humanities librarians should be competent in. Practical examples of experiences and training are provided, focusing on getting involved in existing projects and connecting with others interested in digital humanities work. An emphasis is placed on the idea that the skills in the digital humanities librarian’s toolkit are transferrable and can be acquired through non-digital humanities projects, and that developing these skills will help you become a more well-rounded librarian

The phenomena of retraction in biomedical literature

These are the preliminary results of a study that examines the impact of retracted articles in biomedical literature. The study is a continuation of Budd JM, Sievert ME, Schultz TR, JAMA. 1998;280 (3): 296-7, which focused on retractions in the biomedical literature from 1966 to 1997 and found that “retracted articles continue to be cited as valid work…after publication of the retraction.” Originally presented at MOBIUS conference 2010

(Dis)Placed Urban Histories: Combining Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Community Engagement

The course “(Dis)Placed Urban Histories” has been offered each spring since 2015 at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and brings a historian’s perspective to investigating the impacts of gentrification and urban planning strategies in rapidly changing communities in New York City. During the 2016 and 2017 course iterations, Professor Rebecca Amato, collaborated with librarian, Zach Coble, to create online digital exhibits to showcase the students’ fieldwork and to create a resource for participating community partners. While the faculty-library partnership was successful in creating a digital humanities pedagogy that helped students build methodological and technical skills, the process also revealed shortcomings about working with communities with low access to computers or with aging populations with few technical skills

dh+lib: behind the scenes

Poster presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum in Austin, TX.dh+lib relies on a permanent, tripartite editorial group, a dedicated dh+lib review editorial cluster, and a rotation of volunteers contributing week-long shifts. This collaborative (and complex!) staffing model -- and the range of content and regular publication schedule supported through the site -- has necessitated the iterative development of workflows and the selection of tools to support and enable those workflows. In this behind-the-scenes tour, we will take you through the tools and workflows that we’ve experimented with, both those retained and those discarded along the way

An Investigation of Retracted Articles in the Biomedical Literature

A major challenge to formal scientific communication is the retraction of published works. This study includes a detailed analysis of retracted articles in biomedical literature, including categorization of the reasons for retraction. The examination covers the years 2010-2014. Analysis also includes citations to articles retraction between 2001 and 2005. The totality of the investigation is couched within the context of communication in the biomedical sciences and, to a lesser extent, of the formulation of theories of citation

Enhancing Scholarly Communication and Communities with the PressForward Plugin

Presented at the Digital Humanities conference in Lausanne, Switzerland in July 2014.This poster profiles the workflows and content of two digital humanities publications that have adapted technology developed by PressForward to suit their unique editorial and community needs: Digital Humanities Now, produced by RRCHNM and dh+lib, a publication hosted by the Association of College and Research Libraries' Digital Humanities Discussion Group. Visualizing and documenting intellectual and technical schemas for the plugins with diagrams and onsite demonstrations, this presentation exposes the philosophies and methodologies behind aggregating and curating scholarly work and learned expertise made available on the open web. Illustrating multiple workflows, layouts, and interfaces, this poster presents the scalable, replicable, and adaptable potential of the PressForward Plugin for niche scholarly communities eager to tailor their own hubs for communication and collaboration

Getting Started with Digital Humanities in the Library

https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/943646141In this chapter, Zach Coble details the skills, experiences, and training necessary to get started with digital humanities in libraries. After providing a brief outline of the different types of digital humanities work, we will examine six categories of skills that digital humanities librarians should be competent in. Practical examples of experiences and training are provided, focusing on getting involved in existing projects and connecting with others interested in digital humanities work. An emphasis is placed on the idea that the skills in the digital humanities librarian’s toolkit are transferrable and can be acquired through non-digital humanities projects, and that developing these skills will help you become a more well-rounded librarian

Digital Humanities, Western Europe, and the DiRT Directory

Presentation given to WESS Romanist/Germanist Discussion Group at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA on June 28, 2015

Digital Humanities, Western Europe, and the DiRT Directory

Presentation given to WESS Romanist/Germanist Discussion Group at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA on June 28, 2015