Category Archives: Project Management

PhilPapers: Supporting Volunteer Initiatives for the Long Term

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Abby Scheel

Last week PhilPapers, “a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers,” sent letters to academic librarians asking for financial support to sustain their work. As a recipient of such a letter, I would like to … Continue reading →

Categories: Crowdsourcing, Funding, Libraries, Metadata, Open Access, Project Management, Research Methods, Session Proposals, Session: Talk | 1 Comment

Fair Use Strategies for Digital Humanities Projects

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Christine Fruin

In rendering its judgment in the case of Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, the court was persuaded by arguments raised in the “digital humanities” amicus brief. The court expressly stated that the transformative uses of the digitized content, as highlighted in … Continue reading →

Categories: Copyright, Project Management, Session Proposals, Session: Talk | 3 Comments

Undergraduate Students and Digital Humanities

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Catelyn Cantrell

When I began my own research project as a second-year undergraduate, I set out to map the world of Dante’s Commedia through the use of GIS software. However, I eventually left that project behind and pivoted into a more traditional … Continue reading →

Categories: Mapping, Project Management, Research Methods, Session Proposals, Session: Talk, Teaching | 3 Comments

What is TEI and what can you do with it?

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markkamrath

What is TEI? What can you do with it? How can one get started with TEI editing? What avenues exist for publishing online with TEI encoded projects? TEI (or the Text Encoding Initiative) is a way to prepare archival documents … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Coding, Collaboration, Metadata, Project Management, Session: Talk | 3 Comments