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trevormunoz / 2012-08-19-doing-dh-in-the-library.md
Created August 21, 2012 13:30
Digital humanities in the library isn't a service

Digital humanities in the library isn't a service

Framing digital humanities in libraries as a service to be provided and consequently centering the focus of the discussion on faculty members or others outside the library seem likely to stall rather than foster libraries engagement with digital humanities. I want digital humanities work in libraries that is innovative and iterative but that contributes back to the mission of (academic) libraries. The MITH-University Libraries Digital Humanities Incubator is a local effort to make that happen.

Last week, Miriam Posner started an interesting discussion online with a blog post about some of the [challenges of doing digital humanities in libraries][posner]. Posner identifies challenges rooted in the structure of libraries as organizations, in the organizational position of libraries within universities, and in (academic) library culture.

As a former Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University Library, and someone who has done [research on digital humani

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trevormunoz / refine_dishes.ipynb
Created August 19, 2013 02:38
An iPython notebook demonstrating the use of the Python client library to interact with Open Refine.
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Created November 29, 2013 21:23
Quick and dirty geocoding and mapping of KAP Project metadata
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Created January 10, 2014 17:35
An IPython notebook demonstrating how the Pandas data analysis library can be used to help curate data from the New York Public Library's What's On the Menu? Project
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Created November 18, 2016 19:58
CRGE Intersectional Research Database scrape
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Recalculating centroids using Geopandas
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Created March 9, 2017 11:35
Using the Mapzen API to geocode locations
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Created March 11, 2017 15:29
Exploring Python tools for geospatial data
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Created June 22, 2017 17:13
Page Analysis Plots
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