The Digital Production Specialist whom we hired as part of the LCRM project, Kenneth Reed, is off to Ann Arbor, Michigan to give a workshop on XML work flows for scholarly publishers as part of the Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium.
Kenneth’s position is the first to be shared between UNC Press and the UNC Library. With experience in electronic publishing from Oxford University Press, where he worked on Oxford Scholarship Online, he has been working to help UNC Press establish an XML work flow, and in so doing has become a resource for the scholarly publishing community. The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) is sponsoring his trip, and his co-presenter is David Sewell of the University of Virginia Press.
XML stands for Extensible Markup Language, a way of tagging the structure of digital content that is format neutral and therefore considered future proof. Continue reading ‘XML Publishing Workshop’
The Southern Historical Collection together with UNC Libraries is pleased to present the new SOHP digital collection:
http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/sohp/
Our new site allows more and better access to our interviews. It provides users with even greater search capabilities and functionality. Most importantly, the CONTENTdm platform has the ability to deliver digital content on the Web. In addition to the 500+ interviews already delivered digitally by Oral Histories of the American South, users can now access another 330 digital transcripts as well as around 290 digital audio interviews from the new CONTENTdm site. These numbers will only continue to grow!
The new site includes a number of browse pages (Interviewee, Interviewer, Project, Occupation, Subject, and Ethnicity), as well as the old site’s keyword searches (though users can now search across transcript and abstract fields as well!) A powerful advanced search is available from the main Libraries digital collections search page (http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm4/search.php). The advanced search includes the ability to search interviews by multiple Boolean operators (and, or, not) in specified fields, search by date ranges plus keyword in specific fields, and a search of multiple keywords based on their proximity to each other within a field.
Check out the new site–we hope you enjoy it!
The Supreme Court chose, 8 to 1, not to mess with the Voting Rights Act. Chief Justice John Roberts, who is able to make the blandest statements seem ominous, wrote, “Whether conditions continue to justify such legislation is a difficult constitutional question we do not answer today.”
Emphasis on today. And on do not answer. Though conservative justices “derided” Section 5 of the Act (the part of the law in question, which requires thousands of municipalities in southern states with histories of discrimination to receive Justice Department clearance before changing their voting procedures), they left it intact. Instead, they created a way for municipalities to seek exemption.
The ruling puzzled experts, who expected the Court to strike down the provision. The Court’s relative restraint might have been a signal to Congress that the law needed to change; it may have been a way to undermine the Voting Rights Act without appearing to be the dreaded “activist” judges everyone carps about. In any case, it occurs at a time when new groups of voters need protections, a need that requires looking forward as well as back.
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Sylvia Miller on
June 3, 2009 in
Conference News, LCRM Project News, Online Tools for Scholars, Project Events and SOHP.
Tags: Collaborative Publishing Platform, CPP, digital history, digital humanities, digital publishing, electronic publishing, LCRM Conference, North Carolina Fund, UNC Press.
Following the Long Civil Rights Movement Conference in April, the “Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” project team had the opportunity to discuss digital publishing with the conference panelists in a workshop. Several members of the staff of the UNC Special Collections Library were also in the audience. We deeply appreciate the participation of all those who attended—especially considering that a beautiful spring day and ongoing conversations about the conference panels beckoned! Following are highlights of the workshop discussion. I welcome comments, questions, and continued conversation. This will be the first of a number of posts about the “publishing” part of the “Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” project.
The workshop began with a number of “what ifs” suggested by LCRM team member Mark Simpson-Vos, who is an acquisitions editor at the University of North Carolina Press and a project team member, relating to “publishing as community”: What if works of scholarship were published online with a commenting feature allowing authors and others to link to primary sources and enrich the work on an ongoing basis? Continue reading ‘Digital Publishing Workshop’
With another semester finished in the Triangle, there are only a few LCRM events in the area this summer. With that in mind, we will not be providing weekly events round-ups for the summer months. We will continue to post events as we learn about them, so if you have an event you would like to see added to our LCRM events calendar send an e-mail to LCRM_Events [at] UNC [dot] edu.
It is a busy week here at the Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement project. Our project partner, the Center for Civil Rights, is holding their conference “Looking to the Future: Legal and Policy Options for Racially Integrated Education in the South and the Nation” this Thursday. The conference begins at 8 a.m. and registration is required. Then, on Friday and Saturday this week, our partners at the Southern Oral History Program will be hosting the LCRM project’s conference “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories.” Sign-in for the conference begins at 8 a.m. Click here to see the full program. We hope to see you there.
Also this week is the seminar “Reframing the 50s,” which is part of the Adventures in Ideas weekend seminars at UNC. Check out the events calendar for additional detials.