Inspired by the amazing work that Dan Royles is doing with TEI mark up of oral history interview transcripts (soon to appear in Oral History Review) I took a quick run at something I first thought of at the American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration in 2013. Access resource here.
In this post I want to attempt a very preliminary taxonomy of the kinds of sources that are available to religious historians who wish to use mapping or quantitative analysis of some kind or another. Let’s call this a taxonomy instead of a catalog, because I’m going to list the kinds of sources that I’ve…
One thing that not many digital humanists write about directly, but has become increasingly clear to practitioners in the field, is how ephemeral so much of our thought and work is, especially in comparison to traditional humanities products likes articles and books. What if, while still trying to make our projects more sustainable, we were…
We are delighted to announce three job opportunities at the Graduate Center, CUNY (Humanities Scholar, Post Doctoral Fellow, Deputy Director). These positions are part of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Alliance, a new, Mellon-funded collaboration between the GC and LaGuardia Community College. Read full job ad here.
We have seen increasing interest in the development of digital scholarship centers, often in academic libraries, in recent years. CNI has been active in featuring sessions about these centers at our membership meetings and issuing reports and articles on the topic. Our latest initiative is this workshop, which will provide a range of models for…
Learn more about the vast project undertaken by the Internet Archive, in collaboration with the Allen County Public Library to digitize many of the library’s local interest and Lincoln themed holdings. Watch video here.
Harvard University has launched a project to digitize almost half a million items from its 17th and 18th century archives – the largest digitizing effort the university has ever undertaken. The letters, journals, documents and drawings tell the story not only of the nation’s oldest institution of higher learning, but also the history of our…
Last week a kerfuffle arose on Twitter about Academia.edu, a social networking site for academics, where many academic authors have profiles, share their publications, and connect with other scholars. You can read about the beginning of the controversy in this article the Chronicle of Higher Education posted on Friday. The ensuing tweetstorm followed a fairly typical trajectory…
Tech tutorials and documentation are a particularly exciting place for inline annotation, since users can indicate exactly where they got stuck or need additional information. Using the #DHannotates hashtag, we’re encouraging digital humanists to annotate tutorials, documentation, and other DHy webpages as an easy way of improving these resources for the whole community. Hypothesis annotation…
As more of our scholarly and pedagogical work moves into digital space, it’s important to reinvest ourselves in the materiality of the text and the materiality of the reader/viewer. As the text and what we do with it becomes increasingly virtual, we must turn simultaneously in two directions, embracing digital modes of scholarship, while addressing…