LITA is offering an online course on Personal Digital Archiving. Registration closes October 6th. Read the full post here.
From the post: The theme of World Statistics Day is official statistics. Your data visualization will need to relate to international data provided by a national statistics office, such as the US Census Bureau or the UK’s Office for National Statistics, across one or more of the 5 continents. It can be on weather, agriculture,…
From the announcement: At its June meeting, the AHA Council approved the “Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians.” The approval of the guidelines was the culmination of the work of the ad hoc committee appointed in early 2014 by then-president Ken Pomeranz. The committee was charged with developing a set of…
From the announcement: In 2012, the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, became one of the first American cultural institutions to adopt an open license model for their digitized collections. Using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, they released over 18,000 images into the OpenGLAM world. These images were not only available via the Walters website,…
From the announcement: Dat is a data collaboration tool. We think most people will use it to simplify the process of downloading and updating datasets, but we are also very excited about how people will use it to fork, collaborate on, and publish new datasets for others to consume. View the full announcement or View…
From the announcement: The European Science Foundation Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH) has recently launched the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO). NeMO is a comprehensive ontological model of scholarly practice in the arts and humanities and was developed by the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), ATHENA RC, in collaboration with the NeDiMAH…
A $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund research, education and training at the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies at the University of Maryland. The grant will help to prepare a diverse community of scholars and students whose work will both broaden the reach of the digital humanities…
From the post: Partnering with close to 100 research libraries from around the world, HathiTrust holds about 595 terabytes of digitized textual data — that’s about 157 miles, or 10,000 tons of text. In 2010, HathiTrust launched the HTRC to help researchers around the world accomplish tera-scale data mining and textual analysis. The HTRC is…
.entry-header From the announcement: Digital Humanities and Classics Research Seminar Wednesday June 24th, 18:00 Room K3.11, Strand Campus, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS Professor Gregory Crane Universität Leipzig and Tufts University Perseus, Open Philology and Greco-Roman studies for the 21st century Find out more.
From the announcement: For the first time this year, the Digital Classicist London seminars will be live-cast via the Web, so colleagues who are unable to make it to the events themselves at 16:30 (British Summer Time) on a Friday afternoon, can watch and listen along at the DCLS YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIamtu1Z62wL5XRk2mE8HKw Or watch…