From the ad: We are searching for a candidate who specializes in ancient Mediterranean culture and the reception of the textual and/or archaeological record of the classical world. The ideal candidate will be skilled at integrating digital technologies within his/her scholarship and teaching. Candidates should hold the Ph.D. in a relevant field of classical studies…
Since 2009 we have been contributing to the development of Europeana, the European platform that provides access to the digitised collections of cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) across Europe. One of our main contributions to Europeana is the Europeana Licensing Framework which ensures that data published on Europeana can be freely reused, and that all digital…
From the ad: Reporting to the Dean of BLAIS, the Director for Teaching, Learning & Digital Scholarship is a new position dedicated to leading and shaping the instruction and liaison program and agenda in the Barnard Library. The Director coordinates the Personal Librarian program, a liaison program designed to create unique, specialized services for students and…
From the ad: To accelerate the adoption of new and emerging forms of digital scholarship, teaching, and learning, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Foley Center Library at Gonzaga University invite applications for a joint tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning August 28, 2018. The Digital Humanities Specialist—a faculty member of the Department of…
From the ad: The Oklahoma State University Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in digital history with a specialization in the indigenous peoples of North America to begin in August 2018. The successful candidate will have a completed PhD, teaching experience, and a strong record of research productivity. The position…
The weather prevents me from being there physically, but this is a transcript of my remarks for “Varieties of Digital Humanities,” MLA, Jan 5, 2018. Using numbers to understand cultural history is often called “cultural analytics”—or sometimes, if we’re talking about literary history in particular, “distant reading.” The practice is older than either name: sociologists,…
From the post: Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Current Research in Digital History is an annual one-day conference that publishes online, peer-reviewed proceedings. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations. A format of short presentations provides an opportunity…
From the Resource: The programming language Python is widely used within many scientific domains nowadays and the language is readily accessible to scholars from the Humanities. Python is an excellent choice for dealing with (linguistic as well as literary) textual data, which is so typical of the Humanities. In this book you will be thoroughly…
The question I want to explore today is this: what do we do about distant reading, now that we know that Franco Moretti, the man who coined the phrase “distant reading,” and who remains its most famous exemplar, is among the men named as a result of the #MeToo movement. I feel deeply for his…
From the Resource: This site focuses on mapping the plot structures of interactive narratives, and in particular gamebooks – that is, playable print stories. The project data mines, analyzes, and visualizes the branching plot structures of hundreds of interactive stories, with examples from different decades, nations, and languages. Find the site here: Transverse Reading Gallery