Resource: Ithaka History Project Interim Report
The interim report summarizes “our interviews with research support professionals who support the field of history.”
Category: News
Conference: Theorizing the Web
The second annual Theorizing the Web conference seeks to assemble a multi-disciplinary group of scholars interested in exploring how the Web both influences and is influenced by the social. Technology has always been social and society has always been technological. This fact has become increasingly difficult to ignore following the recent explosion of collaborative and […]
CFP: Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters, Workshops for ETD 2012
ETD 2012 – Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters, Workshops. 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations Lima, Peru, September 12, 13 and 14 First Announcement Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Workshops On behalf of The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and the […]
Funding Opportunity: JISC Digitisation Programme
JISC Digitisation Programme » New JISC funding opportunties. JISC has issued 5 Invitations to Tender for Digital Infrastructure Reports. Bidders must have knowledge of the topic area and must be experienced in producing high quality reports. These are open Invitations to Tender and anyone may bid. 5 Invitations to Tender for Reports on: • Advantages […]
Resource: Doing DH [pdf]
By Daniel Chamberlain Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research
Resource: Four Exciting New Viewshare Features
You Asked For It: Four Exciting New Viewshare Features « The Signal: Digital Preservation. Last week we quietly launched several significant improvements to Viewshare, our free and open platform for cultural heritage organizations to create interfaces to digital collections. There are a ton of major and small additions to the software, but I wanted to […]
CFParticipation: Help us Place our Digitised Maps (British Library)
Georeferencing: help us place our digitised maps. Are you interested in local history and old maps? Would you like to explore historic places in London and across the UK? If so, you can help the British Library. You can quickly create an online 3-D visualisation of these rare documents (with Google Earth) and compare the […]
Job: Programme Manager Digitisation (JISC)
JISC Digitisation Programme » JISC vacancy: Programme Manager Digitisation. JISC is advertising for a post of Programme Manager – e-Content: Digitisation. The post holder will be responsible for managing a range of different types of e-content projects taking place in universities and other organisations that are either digitising content or developing existing digital collections to […]
Report: “Users, Narcissism and Control—Tracking the Impact of Scholarly Publications in the 21st Century”
The SURFfoundation has released Users, Narcissism and Control—Tracking the Impact of Scholarly Publications in the 21st Century. Here’s an excerpt: This report explores the explosion of tracking tools that have accompanied the surge of web based information instruments. Is it possible to monitor ‘real-time’ how new research findings are being read, cited, used and transformed […]
Funding: Digital Humanities 2012 – Call for Student Assistant Bursaries
The student assistant bursary scheme is designed to enable up to 12 international students to participate in the Digital Humanities conference 2012 at the University of Hamburg (July 16-20). In order to provide a well-balanced allocation, the bursaries will be awarded to three students from North America/UK, three from Europe (excluding Germany/UK), three from Middle/South […]