CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipants: New Media in American Literary History Symposium, Northeastern Dec. 5-6 2013

We invite applicants for “New Media in American Literary History,” a symposium aimed at bringing together “digital” and “analog” scholars interested in the history of American print media to discuss common questions, challenges, and identify potential collaborations. sharp-l – [SHARP-L] Call for Participants: New Media in American Literary History Symposium, Northeastern Dec. 5-6 2013 – […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoc Position in Innovating Scholarly Communication at University of California, Davis

A new UC Davis initiative on “Innovating the Communication of Scholarship” is hiring a 3-year postdoctoral fellow, starting September 1, 2013. This is a cross-disciplinary project to study the future of academic publishing, involving faculty from the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, the Library, the Genome Center, and the School of Law (with additional […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Specialist, The Getty Trust

Overview: The Getty Research Institute (GRI) seeks a creative, technology-grounded person with a background in art history and/or computer science to conceptualize, advise, and coordinate digital humanities projects and collection digitization projects.  Reporting to the GRI Deputy Director, the position will interact with a diverse range of collaborators including resident scholars, curators, research staff, librarians, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Disembodying the Past to Preserve It

(What follows is a keynote I gave at the Digital Preservation 2013 conference on July 23, 2013. If you’re curious, there’s a video up of the talk and the Q & A as well and a pdf of the slides I showed (some of which vary from what I’ve shown here). “Disembodying the past to preserve it” I am, as you’ve […]

News, Resources

Resource: Creating useful classifications with taxonomies (part 1)

Taxonomies and other classification schemes are omnipresent in Information Architecture. It recently occurred to me though that there is a great deal of confusion with regards to what a taxonomy is, and how it should be designed, constructed, and managed. Often this is simply because people have different backgrounds and intents when dealing with taxonomies, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Public History conference in Amsterdam, 2014

Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered University of Amsterdam, Thursday 23 October 2014 – Saturday 25 October 2014 FIRST CALL for PROPOSALS Historical sources and narratives about the past infiltrate every corner of the web, from home-made digital media to online exhibitions, across social networks and in virtual museums. Digital tools have become […]