The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce that registration for the Spring 2014 Digital Jumpstart Workshops, to be held on Thursday, March 6 & Friday, March 7, is now open. Read Full Post Here
In 2014 the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) in London, UK. The combined DL conference will be the major international scientific forum on digital libraries for 2014, bringing together researchers and…
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Description: Included in the responsibilities are coordinating and publishing content from internal stakeholders; monitoring and evaluating the Archives’ web properties; working closely with technical and digital projects’ staff and contract developers and designers; keeping abreast of relevant emerging technologies; participating in Smithsonian-wide web and IT-related activities, and…
Digital Heritage 2014: Digital Communities in Action Saturday 12 July 2014, 9.30am Speaker: A keynote address will be given by Catherine Clarke, Professor in English at the University of Southampton. Digital Heritage is an annual conference hosted by the Centre for Digital Heritage. This year theme will be ‘Digital Communities in Action’ and so we…
The long answer is that historians don’t necessarily need scientists, but that we do need fresh scientific methods. Perhaps as an accident of our association with the ill-defined “humanities”, or as a result of our being placed in an entirely different culture (see: C.P. Snow), most historians seem fairly content with methods rooted in thinking…
Text classification tool on the web Michael pointed me to a story about how Stanford scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web. The tool allows you to pass a text (or a Twitter hashtag) to an existing classifier like the Twitter Sentiment classifier. It then gives you a interactive graph like the one above…
The Columbia University Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of eJournal Preservation Librarian. This is a temporary grant-funded position running through April 30, 2015 (with the possibility of extension) created to review titles within the 2CUL holdings that do not have adequate preservation plans. Read Full Posting Here
Critical Code Studies Working Group 2014 Feb 23-March 23, 2014 Announcing the 3rd biannual Critical Code Studies Working Group , Feb 23-March 23, online. CCSWG is the major online think tank for Critical Code Studies, a hub of dialogue and collaborative inquiry that generates major thrust in the reading of code. The threads from the…
Some reasons graduate students (and any scholars) should maintain an online presence, with an emphasis on using Twitter and blogging to develop intellectually and professionally: Blogging is magic (I’m blogging right now!). Blogging can help you develop content for your dissertation, article, or future conference paper, without the same constraints of sitting down to produce…
The application of computer vision to art photo archives has largely been unexplored up to this point. Lev Manovich has explored ways of analyzing images of artworks while looking for trends in an artists oeuvre or entire artistic movements. However, most institutions have used large scale image analysis primarily for cases of copyright enforcement, face…