On February 12, 2016, the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio hosted the second DH Salon event of the semester—a collaborative presentation highlighting the Walt Whitman Archive’s Correspondence project. Presenters included Ed Folsom (Roy J. Carver Professor of English and Co-Director, Walt Whitman Archive), Stephanie Blalock (Digital Humanities Librarian & Associate Editor, Walt Whitman Archive), StefanContinue reading “DH Salon Recap: “Whitman’s Letters—The Collaboration of the Walt Whitman Archive Correspondence team””
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
Workshop Wrap-Up: An Introduction to TEI/XML
On Saturday, November 7, 2015, I taught an introductory TEI/XML workshop for fourteen attendees, including graduate students from several disciplines and staff members at the University of Iowa Libraries. The workshop was primarily dedicated to providing an overview of text encoding or adding code to a text in order to create a machine-readable version. TextContinue reading “Workshop Wrap-Up: An Introduction to TEI/XML”
DIY Natural History
Together with the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, the UI Libraries launched a new DIY History collection, the Egg Cards, a little over a month ago. These field note cards were collected by amateur ornithologists during the late 1800s/early 1900s in Iowa and elsewhere, for the purposes of identifying egg specimens in nests. Continue reading “DIY Natural History”
DH Salon Recap: The Walt Whitman Archive’s pre-Leaves of Grass Fiction Project
On Friday, Oct. 23rd, the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio hosted the fourth DH Salon of the semester. I was very glad to welcome an enthusiastic group of faculty, staff, and graduate students to the Studio for my presentation, “From Periodical Page to Digital Edition: The Walt Whitman Archive’s pre-Leaves of Grass Fiction Project.” The goal ofContinue reading “DH Salon Recap: The Walt Whitman Archive’s pre-Leaves of Grass Fiction Project”
Omeka Workshop Review
Last Saturday we hosted the first of four digital scholarship workshops here at the Studio. This workshop covered Omeka, an open source collections management platforms designed to let scholars curate collections and create narrative displays for the public. It’s a perfect tool for supporting a balance of rigorous scholarship with a public-friendly face. We useContinue reading “Omeka Workshop Review”
DRP welcomes Rob Shepard!
Digital Research & Publishing is pleased to announce that Rob Shepard has accepted our offer to be the new Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Librarian for the UI Libraries. Rob comes to us from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Geography. We at DRP are looking forward to theContinue reading “DRP welcomes Rob Shepard!”
Contributing in code
For librarians, particularly those in academic settings, an important part of the job is contributing to the development of the profession; traditionally, this has included tasks such as giving presentations at conferences and publishing articles in scholarly journals. But thanks to the evolving nature of our work and to innovations on the part of our developers, the University of IowaContinue reading “Contributing in code”
Historically mustachioed
In celebration of Movember and of Digital Research & Publishing’s sometimes very hirsute new department head, we’re reprising a few of last year’s Great Mustaches of the Iowa Digital Library: Find your own favorites! Probably here: digital.lib.uiowa.edu/dentistry
Tom Keegan named Head of Digital Research & Publishing
The University of Iowa Libraries has hired Tom Keegan as Head of Digital Research & Publishing. A Rhetoric faculty member and co-director of the IDEAL (Iowa Digital Engagement & Learning) initiative, Keegan has a partial appointment with the Libraries until January, when he will assume full-time duties leading DRP. In this position Keegan will buildContinue reading “Tom Keegan named Head of Digital Research & Publishing”
Transcription addiction
We’ve been in touch with one of our most faithful DIY History transcribers, Roger. He didn’t intend to get so drawn into the project when he first visited our site, but now he admits that “things like eating and mowing get in the way but I’ve managed to blow off most other things cause I’mContinue reading “Transcription addiction”