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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Using Palladio and Gephi as Data Visualization Tools

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Much has been published about data visualization tools.  Miriam Posner has written in this area which I often use as a reference.   Some ha...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Was Shakespeare Really Shakespeare? "Shakespeare has now fully entered the era of Big Data."

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Is Shakespeare really Shakespeare?   This is a question I pose whenever I'm asked about what is digital humanities.  In  Shakespeare B...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Mining Register of Headtax Records using R and Palladio

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In 2009, I began working with researchers and librarians UBC Library and SFU Library on a project that sought to collect and digitize materi...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Canadian Libraries - Reflections From The Last Decade

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I recently presented at the Saskatchewan Libraries Association (SLA) 2019  with my colleagues Maha Kumaran and Jian Wang.   It was a se...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

The Emotional Fatigue of Unseen Labour in Librarianship

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Photo by Fahrul Azmi on Unsplash Recently, there was an article that had ripples across the academic community at UBC.  Although it...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

The Big Academic Publishers Going Into Data Analytics Business

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The latest  SPARC Landscape Analysis  is a fascinating read.  It's surprising to learn that not only are the so-called big-three acade...
Friday, December 07, 2018

Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 34 Issue 3 (Special Theme on Digital Humanities)

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I'm excited to see our issue of Digital Library Perspectives  published. The theme “digital humanities” (DH) – its history, major proj...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Excellent Opportunity -- JSTOR Digital Humanities Fellow

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An excellent opportunity for those with interest in the digital humanities. ITHAKA is looking for a digital humanities practitioner and ed...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Digital Humanities Librarian Search at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Digital Humanities Librarian Assistant or Associate Professor, University Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Positio...
Monday, October 08, 2018

Digital Humanities: Implications for Librarians, Libraries, and Librarianship in Journal of College & Undergraduate Libraries #DH

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Although it's been out for almost a year now, I'm excited to have read the DH-themed issue in College & Undergraduate Librarie...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Open Access, APC's, and the Pop-Up Restaurant

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Recently, a Canadian economics professor ventured into the dark world of predatory publishing and got punished by his university and i...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

The Learning Gardens at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

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During my sabbatical, Patrick Lo, Dickson Chiu, and I were fortunate to interview Louise Jones , the University Librarian of the Chinese U...
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Friday, March 16, 2018

Data Analysis Using Gephi, a Digital Humanities Case Study

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Chinese Canadian Stories – Uncommon Histories from a Common Past  was a collaborative project that I was a part of during an earlier part of...
Monday, January 08, 2018

DH Projects in East Asian Studies

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The ‘Digital Humanities’ is still a young and highly contested area.  Furthermore, as Tom Mullaney has argued, within Digital Humanities ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Horizon Report 2017 - Will Be Missed. Rest in Peace NMC

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Happy holidays and New Year to you all.   While I look forward to 2018, I'm sad that the New Media Consortium , after so many years ...