30 October, 2017
Universities and Libraries NTU Medical Students Could Get Customised Help from 'Virtual Tutor' in Future
Digital Humanities Pedagogy as Essential Liberal Education Source: Brandon T. Locke, Michigan State University, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Volume 11 Number 3.
NTU announced a collaboration with IBM to develop a virtual “tutor” for students. It will be integrated with the school’s team-based learning platform, and should also be able to adapt learning to each individual, analyse a student's performance, as well as his or her weaknesses and strengths. Image Source: Andrea Levy for The Chronicle Review Singapore's First Long-Span Wind Turbine Installed at Semakau Landfill As part of NTU's Renewable Energy Integration Demonstrator - Singapore (REIDS), a new long-span wind turbine has been installed at the Semakau Landfill, capable of producing enough energy to power 45 four-room HDB units a year. This project is in partnership with French multinational electric utility company ENGIE.
This article argues that it is important for liberal arts students to learn “essential skills for information retrieval and analysis, media literacy, and communication in the digital age”, and suggests that building a framework for teaching this into the curriculum itself is a needed development for both Digital Humanities as well as liberal arts education in general. More about Digital Humanities: 1. Using Maps to Promote Data-Driven DecisionMaking: One Library's Experience in Data Visualization Instruction 2. An Annotated Bibliography of Digital Scholarship in Libraries 3. The Digital-Humanities Bust 4. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters: From Print Catalog to Linked Open Data
Researcher Using Digital Humanities to Explore Poetry in New Ways A post-doctoral researcher dedicated to Digital Humanities recently joined the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. She will “use digital tools to pursue her own research and help researchers and scholars across the university bring digital humanities to their own work, no matter what field they are in”. Canadian Developments in Open Scholarship This set of presentation slides by the McMaster University Library summarise the recent happenings and developments of Open Access across Canadian Universities. User Navigation in LargeScale Distributed Digital Libraries: The Case of the Digital Public Library of America
This case study reviews how users perceive and use the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), specifically on how users found the steps needed “to locate digital objects provided by a metadata aggregator service hub”.
Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation 2017 Source: NDSA Staffing Survey Working Group, National Digital Stewardship Alliance.
This 55-page report consolidates and presents the results of staffing surveys from over 100 institutions that have digital preservation activities in the US and various European countries. It provides “a useful snapshot of the way digital preservation is accomplished in 2017 and how its practitioners feel about the effectiveness of their current organizational structures”.
Library Publishing and the University Press in the United States and Germany Source: Margo Bargheer and Kizer Walker. Preprint of BIBLIOTHEK Forschung und Praxis
This pre-print article examines how library publishing and university presses complement each other in their respective goals, to disseminate scholarly publications. The article draws on both the scholarly and economic contexts in the two countries of the authors – the United States and Germany.
The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online Source: Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center
This commentary from the Pew Research Center examines the effect of technology on society. Specifically in the context of the spread of misinformation and how it can be stopped, or exacerbated by, technology. It canvasses commentary and opinions from various thinkers and
experts in technology and academic fields to provide a robust and wide discussion on the issue.
Ask the Chefs: Where Does Open Access Go From Here? Source: Ann Michael, The Scholarly Kitchen
This commentary from the Scholarly Kitchen interviews various observers and thinkers about how the Open Access movement will develop in the coming years, taking into consideration various stakeholders from the academic fields, the libraries as well as the publishers.
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