From the report: What would it mean for the digital humanities to build more bridges in their work? Last week nearly 700 digital humanists went to Mexico City to participate in the annual international Digital Humanities 2018 conference. The conference title was “Puentes/Bridges” – and a central question was how digital humanities can build bridges…
[Delivered as part of the “Mid-Range Reading: Manifesto Edition” panel, organized by Alison Booth, of the DH2018 Conference in Mexico City] A great deal of digital humanities work over the past decade or so has employed scale as the concept that distinguishes it from other methods of literary and cultural study. Quantitative scholars in particular have…
From the CFParticipation: ACH 2019 is seeking reviewers to evaluate conference proposal submissions during December 2018 and January 2019. ACH wishes to establish a wide, and as varied as possible, pool of reviewers for this conference. We welcome members of any academic affiliation or professional role who are interested in the digital humanities that would…
From the ad: The AHRC-funded research project Dunham’s Data: Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry (Principal Investigator – Kate Elswit, Co Investigator – Harmony Bench – OSU) seeks to hire a Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Research Assistant. The role holder will work with the PI and CI in structuring data and development, design, and implementation of…
From the resource: Below is a list of resources, tools, slides, presentation aids, and articles shared during the course of DH2018 on Twitter. If you see anything missing you would like added, please tweet @ADHOrg or email web@digitalhumanities.org. Notes on #DH2018 Conference Tweets per user_lang in a #DH2018 archive by Ernesto Priego English Language notes on…
One thing we digital methods people like to harp on about is the fact that quantitative methods are brilliant for dealing with huge amounts of text that are quite frankly incomprehensible at the level of literary-linguistic detail we would like to be able to study them at. The ability to observe frequency at a level…
Reposted from Torn Apart / Separados website. You can find the Spanish version titled, “Triple D: Desmantelando a la mafia, desestabilizando mecanismos y documentando la memoria histórica”, at http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/reflections/sylvia_fernandez.html Ever since I begin my university studies in 2009, a concern arose in me; it derived from the frustration generated from taking courses related to the…
From the ad: The University of Minnesota Libraries invites applications for a collaborative and innovative liaison librarian to work with scholars in the humanities and participate in the Digital Arts, Sciences, & Humanities (DASH) program. The librarian in this position will serve as liaison to students, faculty, and staff affiliated with the Classical & Near…
From the CFParticipation: Torn Apart / Separados (http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/index.html) is inviting contributors and reviewers to help us in the following: 1. Peer review of certain sections of the project, offer feedback on how effectively we articulated the purpose of the project, the experience of undertaking research, the decisions we made while designing data visualizations, site navigation, and the…
From the CFParticipation: Gothic scripts from the Middle Ages can be found in archives and libraries all over Europe. The script was widely used for hundreds of years, and not only in expensive decorated books. First experiments with documents from Switzerland and Germany have demonstrated that Gothic script can be recognised by Automated Text Recognition…