October 24 – 30 is International Open Access Week 2011. Now in its fifth year, International Open Access Week, sponsored by openaccessweek.org, is dedicated to educating scholars and university administrators about authors’ rights, copyright, and the importance of creating and maintaining free access to scholarship. Openaccessweek.org encourages scholars to allow unfettered access to the products…. More.
Fall 2011 newsletter
Our Fall 2011 newsletter (PDF) is now available for your reading pleasure. It’s chock full of introductions: of our three new graduate fellows, of our new Praxis Program (rethinking methodological training in the digital humanities), of our new cohort of Praxis fellows, and of four new staff members. You’ll also find the full schedule of…. More.
Neatline
I’ve called Neatline, the Digital Humanities Start-Up project Adam Soroka and I began developing in September, a “contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular.” Huh? This project will allow scholars (and other stewards of cultural heritage) to create Web-based geospatial and temporal visualizations that build on the rich EAD metadata libraries produce in…. More.
Dynamic web forms for the creation of XML
Among my regular tasks in the Scholars’ Lab Research and Development department, I have been developing applications to enable users to easily edit XML metadata within web forms. As those familiar with metadata creation workflows will know, methods for creating XML documents were prone to human error and required some level of technical knowledge. With…. More.
all good press is local
Today’s edition of UVA Today covers our Grad Fellows program and our first luncheon of the semester. Read all about it!