We’re delighted to announce version 1.1 of the DHDebates platform, which includes a number of new features: Account creation and basic profile editing Commenting on sentences for anonymous and logged in users Display of comment counts per paragraph for the text JSON APIs for read-only access to the database These features provide a number of…
The Penn State University Libraries in partnership with the College of the Liberal Arts seek a creative, forward-thinking scholar for the new position of Digital Humanities Research Designer. The Digital Humanities Research Designer will be familiar with a range of technologies and have direct experience bringing digital approaches to bear on research and teaching. The…
Thanks to a group of wonderful instructors and an energetic, passionate cohort of students from around the world, the first iteration of our intensive digital humanities training institute was a great success when it was held in January 2013. We were inspired by the model pioneered at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) and we…
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – DUE AUG 31st! HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event September 8-9, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I Hotel and Conference Center HTRC The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital…
For Cinema Journal in 2009, Tara McPherson wrote the following: The “we” in McPherson’s sentence may be interpreted as media studies practitioners in particular or humanities practitioners in general. And in 2012, I took her statement seriously as a challenge to teaching and learning at the graduate level. That year, I designed and taught a graduate seminar…
For the first time, users of the Guide will be able to do full-text searching of its contents as well as move freely through them using the dynamic table of contents. Guide to Documentary Editing.
International Journal of Digital Libraries Special Issue on Digital Scholarship Digital scholarship, or “cyberscholarship” – that based on data and computation – is radically reshaping knowledge discovery, creation, analysis, presentation and dissemination in many topical areas. Scientists are using vast amounts of data to explore galaxies, measure stresses on earth systems, create genetic profiles of…
It’s finished! Today we’re excited to announce Neatline 2.0.0, a stable, production-ready release of the new codebase that can be used to upgrade existing installations. If you’re starting fresh with a new project, just download the new version and install it like any other Omeka plugin. If you’re upgrading from Neatline 1.x, be sure to read…
Upcoming Call for Papers: Special Issue on Irish Studies and Digital Humanities [Deadline: January 15th, 2014] In 2012, Stanley Fish posed the question: does the digital humanities offer new and better ways to realize traditional humanities goals? Or does the digital humanities completely change our understanding of what a humanities goal (and work in the humanities) might…
March 27-29, 2014 With keynote speakers: David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University) Caroline Macé (KU Leuven) Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library) Discussion about the digitization of archival fonds and library holdings pertaining to the Middle Ages boasts a wide profusion both in online settings and in real time. As…