In recent years, visualization has become an all-purpose technique for communicating and exploring data within the humanities.  There are a wide availability of tools offering different points of entry from IBM’s Many Eyes to Gephi to Tapor 2.0.  Projects like the Visual Thesaurus,  Mapping the Republic of Letters, and Hypercities, among countless others, all engage with visualization as an integral part of their…

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Job Posting: Digital Scholarship Advisor / Web Developer « American Social History Project ·  Center for Media and Learning. The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) is seeking an individual with strong web programming, organizational and advising skills as a full-time Web Developer/New Media Lab Digital Scholarship Advisor. Deadline: May 8 or…

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Digitate: Annotating the Visual | josullivan.org. Digitate (http://digitate.org) is a free application designed for use on iPad devices, which allows scholars and enthusiasts with an interest in the visual and material elements of a cultural artefact to make notes and annotations directly on an image of any such artefact. For example, a literary scholar might…

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2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data  (IEEE BigData 2013). In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately society itself. The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2013 (IEEE BigData 2013) provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research…

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We here at Digital Humanities Now invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for Summer, 2013. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, and suggest content for publication in DHNow and the Journal of Digital Humanities. Editors-at-Large are critical to…

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Knowing only that they had signed up for English 1110.01, first-year writing, my students walked into the classroom for the first time to see projected on the front screen what I’m currently projecting now. While many of the students weren’t familiar with the exact nature of XML, they all could infer its status as a…

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http://mith.umd.edu/mith-participating-in-google-summer-of-code-2013/ MITH is pleased to announce that Google has selected us as one of a hundred seventy seven mentoring organizations to participate in the 2013 Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Google is offering students a stipend to work with MITH and other organizations on open source projects, giving students an opportunity to see software development and…

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