During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. This program was not straightforward political propaganda, though it certainly supported U.S. government objectives. The musicians built relationships both musical and personal. By their presence and their performances, they also offered…
Below is the text of a talk delivered at the Digital Antiquarian conference in May 2015. (The slides can be downloaded from the conference website). I am grateful to the conference organizers, Molly O’Hagan Hardy and Tom Augst, and the staff of the American Antiquarian Society, for the opportunity to present my work “under the dome.” When it comes to the digital humanities, my…
From the announcement: The Department of English at the University of South Florida seeks applicants for the DeBartolo Professor in the field of digital humanities. Literary or rhetorical field is open, but the candidate should be interested in bridging the three concentrations of literature, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing at the graduate level through…
From the post: This blog will introduce text capture by describing the different methods with a focus upon historical documents. I will introduce the basics of OCR and rekeying with discussion of handwriting and voice recognition. Source: Text Capture and Optical Character Recognition 101
From the announcement: This post is a 12-month teaching fellow position available from the 1st September 2015. The successful applicant will deliver excellent postgraduate and undergraduate teaching across all the department programmes offered with a particularly focus on the rapidly growing MA in Digital Asset and Media Management (MA DAMM) as well contribute to core…
From the post: Partnering with close to 100 research libraries from around the world, HathiTrust holds about 595 terabytes of digitized textual data — that’s about 157 miles, or 10,000 tons of text. In 2010, HathiTrust launched the HTRC to help researchers around the world accomplish tera-scale data mining and textual analysis. The HTRC is…
The following is the rough transcripts of a talk I gave at Fostering the Transatlantic Dialogue on Digital Heritage and EU Research Infrastructures: Initiatives and Solutions in the USA and in Italy at the Library of Congress in November 2014 (back when I worked there). As scholars become increasingly interested in approaching digital collections and digital objects…
From the announcement: UCLA’s Digital Humanities program emphasizes cross-disciplinary, cross-hierarchy collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. We’ve created this Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights as a statement of our values and principles in the UCLA DH program. Collaborations between students and more experienced digital humanities practitioners should benefit everyone. At their best, these partnerships are a…
From the posting: Reporting to the Dean, the Director of the Digital Media Lab is responsible for the development and implementation of digital media practices across academic programs. This position works with faculty, staff, and students to effectively incorporate interactive technology into pedagogical practice and student projects, and strategizes the software and hardware needs of…
From the announcement: The librarian in this key position is a primary planner and coordinator for library digital initiatives, including emergent technologies. Leads a team approach in furthering library efforts with Digital Humanities. Coordinates the library’s instance of Digital Commons, our Institutional Repository. Manages a planned technology-intensive library Makerspace. Source: Digital Initiatives Librarian at Xavier…