Colors are perhaps the visual property that people most often misuse in visualization without being aware of it. Variations of the rainbow colormap are very popular, and at the same time the most problematic and misleading. The rainbow color map is based on the colors in the light spectrum, and is sometimes done correctly, sometimes…
Chicago has always been a preeminently Catholic city. From the encampment French-Haitian Creole Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable first built upon Lake Michigan’s swampy banks in the 1770s to the steeples that continue to tower over the city of neighborhoods today, Catholicism has been integral to the city’s development. Parishes have structured neighborhoods, priests have…
Umea University invites PhD students from the Nordic countries to a semester-long course exploring the theory and practice of digital history.
This project is really for technical staff or developers who work with The Museum System (TMS). The code is a C# .NET WCF service application that allows access to curatorial data using JSON web services.
This is a collection of open-source museum projects active on github along with a list of “featured projects” hopefully of interest to the broader community.
In previous posts, we looked at a variety of Linux command line techniques for analyzing text and finding patterns in it, including word frequencies, permuted term indexes, regular expressions, simple search engines and named entity recognition. In this post we focus on a preliminary issue: converting images of texts into text files that we can…
The successful candidate will be a promising researcher able to carry out teaching and administration in Digital Anthropology and some other area within Material Culture studies which could include consumption, media, museums, art and visual culture, materials or a particular genre of material and visual culture. UCL Search Engine: Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material…
The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” in cooperation with the “Heidelberg Graduate School for Mathematical and Computational Methods in the Sciences”, invites applications for the position of Junior Research Group Leader in Digital Humanities (full-time post-doctoral position; German academic salary scale TVL-13)
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society seeks a part-time digital humanities research specialist to join our small team working on the Environment & Society Portal.
Mobile devices enable students and other non-professional historians to decode edificial remains, symbols etc. through giving access to additional information. In other words, mobile devices enrich reality: They reveal the historical value of topographic places and surfaces. The article “Mobile history Learning” delivers ideas for inquiry- and design-based learning with mobile devices. The authors try…