The Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies is looking to help facilitate the work of students and scholars by aiding in the development of research-oriented databases related to scholarship in religion and new media. Proposals are invited for database projects to be housed on the “Researcher’s Toolbox” section of the Network for New Media, Religion and…
“…an online collection of resources for the learning and teaching of digital preservation – collected, organized and accessible through one place…”
What topics should be covered in the 2nd ed. of the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities?
We are now advertising a very interesting job opportunity in Digital Media in the journalism department at Lehigh University.We are looking for a tenure-track assistant professor — newly-minted Ph.D. or a few years in rank — who is dedicated to research and teaching on how digital and mobile media are transforming community and social life. An ability to…
Big data and uncertainty in the humanities September 22, 2012, The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas. This conference seeks to address the opportunities and challenges humanistic scholars face with the ubiquity and exponential growth of new web-based data sources (e.g. electronic texts, social media, and audiovisual materials) and digital methods…
I recently attended the Wikimania conference here in Washington, DC. I really can’t express how amazing it was to be a Metro ride away from more than 1,400 people from 87 countries who were passionate about creating a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. It was my first Wikimania,…
WorkTop was designed to enhance the ability of students (and scholars at all levels) to more efficiently perform fundamental scholarly tasks while at the same time providing new opportunities for collaborative learning.
Announcing for download a package of html, javascript, and css that allows embedding into an html page passages of text served by a Canonical Text Services implementation, by inserting a CTS-URN into a <blockquote></blockquote> element, with a @class attribute “cts-text.” The Homer Multitext seeks to present the textual transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey in…
Electronic literature uses links, images, sound, navigation, as well as text to convey meaning. Electronic literature is ergodic, and thus it is up to the reader to piece together the materials as the reader goes through the work. Elit 101explains how these elements work to convey meaning and provides examples and exercises for each element.
The European Library recently launched its new portal at the LIBER Annual Conference in Tartu. The portal, designed to meet the specific needs of researchers in the digital humanities and social sciences, puts a critical mass of bibliographic records, digital objects and full-text materials at the fingertips of digital humanities and social sciences researchers. It…