Librarian interesting in Digital Scholarship, Scholarly Communication, Science & Religion, History of Anything, and Peace & Reconciliation Studies
Minneapolis, MN
Joined November 2007
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Kent Gerber retweeted
Our new Machines Reading Maps tool that allows searching Text on Maps is now live at davidrumsey.com 100 million words indexed on 57,000 maps. Users can correct any errors. See our Text On Maps Help Guide for detailed descriptions on using this exciting new feature.
Important project to watch and learn from. A model collaboration between digital archives and research data management to prioritize and commit institutional resources of the library to center Black history. #digitalhumanities #collectionsasdata
Fabulous effort between Harvard Library RDM team and Harvard Dataverse. Huge props to @boydcm_ for the patience and time using #DVuploader, scripting for months on end, and getting this beautiful collection up and running. Thanks to @dorothyjberry for initiating!
I'm glad to learn today that this metadata resource is now an adopted SAA standard - Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Resources | Society of American Archivists www2.archivists.org/standard…
Kent Gerber retweeted
Yesterday marked the kickoff of our project to build campus strategies for data support services, bringing together a first cohort of 15 universities to coordinate data support services to better meet researchers’ needs.
Read more from @ruby_macdougall: sr.ithaka.org/blog/building-…
ALT Image of a man brainstorming ideas on a whiteboard, with text "Coordinating Research Data Support Services" and the Ithaka S+R logo on a blue background.
Whoa! This is an example of the capabilities and easier access to AI for writing and creation that is featured in this article in the New York Times nytimes.com/2022/12/05/techn… and The Atlantic "The College Essay is Dead"
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A key text to use when teaching the history of racism in the US and the role of redlining maps. Discusses their visual and explanatory power but also the limitations of depending on them as the only force contributing to existing inequalities.
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Luddites were not simply motivated by a general fear of technology, they were confronting what technology did to others and who was benefitting from the changes. This thread is an important reframe and reminder
My latest column for @locusmag is "SF is a Luddite Literature," and it's my contribution to the burgeoning movement to rehabilitate the reputation of the Luddite uprisings, overturning the libel that Luddites were motivated by a fear of technology:
locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-do… 1/
ALT An old Ace Double paperback whose cover has been altered; it now has a fragment of an antique woodcut of Ned Ludd leading workers to battle, and has been retitled 'The Luddites' with the slug 'Smashing looms was their tactic, not their goal.'
Fascinating episode from one of my favorite podcasts on how we form group identities, how they impact us and also how they can be manipulated.
“If we can get people to see themselves as connected to all of humanity, we might be able to change the way they think about themselves. It might be the trigger we need to motivate people to work towards a common purpose.” —psychologist @jayvanbavel
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/grou…
Her work is excellent and I am excited to see what comes of this Fellowship
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Kent Gerber retweeted
It’s here, friends! Omeka Classic 3.0 omeka.org/news/2021/09/22/om…
A new spin on old globes bit.ly/3vLmqJ6 via @umnlib
Very cool #photogrammetry and #3dmodeling project!
Kent Gerber retweeted
Excellent! If you're curious about Pandas, folks, here's a new resource!
My partially complete @pandas_dev JupyterBook for new coders (#digitalhumanities) is now live. I will be pushing the remaining sections over the next few weeks as well as videos.
A case study in what happens when you are misinformed and you learn the hard way. It doesn't have to be this way. Get the vaccine!
An moment in our history and a reckoning with our racist past including the 2017 Charlottesville unrest.
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Kent Gerber retweeted
6 months ago today I wore this blue suit as I cleaned the Capitol after the insurrection, now I just donated it to the Smithsonian. Jan6 must never be forgotten. While some try to erase history, I will fight to tell the story so it never happens again. Here is one story…(THREAD)
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PLEASE partake in the open access (see: FREE.99) version of Distributed Blackness, thanks to the efforts of @NYUpress opensquare.nyupress.org/book…
This is a great perspective and advice on how graduate students encounter DH. Few come in to graduate studies with DH tool experience. Also need research and teaching questions to precede learning any particular tool.
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