We are looking for a Computer Vision researcher to join us (freelance working remotely, or full-time). You can live anywhere (as long as you have US social security number) and work freelance, choosing your own hours. So if you already have a full-time position, but have some free time, this job is for you. (Email,…
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 –…
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…
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,…
Last fall I attended Rails Girls DC, a one day workshop that introduces women to programming using Ruby on Rails. It was a wonderful event and I learned a lot. But I also left inspired to bring this sort of event to the Digital Humanities! We too have a gender gap and need to support women interested…
(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…
(This post is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave at the European Summer School “Culture & Technology” at the University of Leipzig, Germany, on July 26 2013.) This talk is about data in the humanities. Most of my colleagues in literary and cultural studies would not necessarily speak of their objects of study as…
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,…
My colleague Oliver Duke-Williams and I had a paper on ‘Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities’ accepted to the recent Digital Humanities conference in Nebraska. After the talk a number of people contacted us to say that our findings would be useful for them when they sit on tenure, promotion and hiring committees…
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…