Digital Cultural Heritage DC #DCHDC (Washington, DC) – Meetup. The inaugural meetup of the DCHDC will be on Thursday, September 20 at 7:00 pm at the upstairs bar at Stetson’s. We’ll start with three quick lightning talks, followed by spirited conversation. Lightning Talk Lineup: Viewshare and You: Digital Collection Visualization for the Rest of Us, Trevor Owens, Office…
Using Git locally for a Subversion-based project (like BuddyPress) | Teleogistic. In the past, I’ve written extensively about using Git with WordPress projects. I’ve focused primarily on Git as the primary development channel, with SVN (in this case, plugins.svn.wordpress.org) used for distribution only. In contrast, I use Git for all my local development on the BuddyPress…
Gates Foundation Offers Grants for MOOC’s in Introductory Classes – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to find out whether the massive open online courses that have proved so popular in advanced and often highly technical fields offer the same promise for remedial and introductory courses….
2012 NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting – Open to Public | National Endowment for the Humanities Come learn about using facial recognition software to unlock art historical mysteries, developing tools for building maps on the fly, employing gaming technology to help enrich archival collections, or discovering early writings of Abraham Lincoln with authorship attribution…
Post Position » Friday’s the Deadline: Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games As mentioned here before, Ian Horswill, Michael Young and I are editing a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (T-CIAIG), and your submissions are invited. Specifically: The T-CIAIG Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games solicits…
How Can A Digital Humanist Get Tenure? | HASTAC. What counts for tenure for those in the digital humanities? This is a persistent question in any new field (not that digital humanities is “new” at this point but its methods are not the “scholarly monograph published by a university press” widely recognized by colleagues in…
Over the last few months a team of librarians, archivists, curators, engineers and other technologists in the NDSA have been working to draft a simple chart to help prioritize digital preservation work. After iteratively developing this document and workshopping it at Digital Preservation 2012 we are excited to publicly share it for comment.
Over the Course of the 2012/13 academic year this AHRC-funded programme is offering postgraduate research students postdoctoral researchers a unique opportunity to develop skills in reinterpreting archival material (Image, Object, Performance and Theatre, Corpora and Film) in the context of digitisation and widening access to such material through strategies of public engagement. Participants will gain…
The University of Houston is offering a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities, beginning this January. Please see the details here.
Helping the World to Teach | Research Blog. In July, Research at Google ran a large open online course, Power Searching with Google, taught by search expert, Dan Russell. The course was successful, with 155,000 registered students. Through this experiment, we learned that Google technologies can help bring education to a global audience. So we packaged up the technology…