Assessing Student Work in Omeka/Neatline
Reading text and reading hypertext are two very different activities. This has implications for teachers and pedagogues who are faced with evaluating students’ digital projects.…
Learning Together in Digital Humanities
Although I felt that my Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) position was clear when I first began working as a Humanities Write Large Research Assistant, I…
Wait, is this work? Three project management skills you (probably) already have
As a humanities graduate student, I conduct most of my research and writing on my own. Although I rely on my adviser and colleagues for…
Communicating with an Expanding Audience
I’m Heather, the Outreach and Assessment Coordinator for Project Vox. This blog post is about how Project Vox, a Digital Humanities Project, is working to…
Starting an undergraduate DH program
Last year, Meredith Goldsmith joined Duke University as a Humanities Writ Large Visiting Faculty Fellow, learning how to digitally map locations and movements in realistic fiction. She…
The care and feeding of digital scholarship
In the best of all possible worlds, digital scholarly projects are simple and striking, robust and adept, and immortal. In the real world, however, such idealistic notions elide…
Look inside digital scholarship at the Feb 17 Open House
Each spring, Duke Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Services department hosts an open house event to showcase our project work over the past academic year. We invite the…
There is No Such Thing As Going Backward
In 1991, artist Agnes Martin wrote, “There is no such thing as going backward in anything. There is increased and decreased awareness, that is all,…
Project Vox and Digital Object Identifiers
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are meant to provide actionable, interoperable, persistent links to digital objects. They were developed by the publishing community as a…
Learning to Embrace the Process in Long Term Projects, Processing Digital Archives
When I joined the Digital Scholarship Services team last November, I knew in very general terms my goals and objectives as a Research Assistant…