From the announcement: The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) are pleased to announce a joint collaborative program to enhance sharing of collections from the Internet Archive in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The Internet Archive will work with interested Libraries and content providers to help ensure their metadata…
From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Intern (DH) will work the JSTOR Labs team to extend Understanding Shakespeare, its partnership project with the Folger Shakespeare Library. Understanding Shakespeare has shown a new way of connecting primary texts with the literature about them, and the DH Intern will play a pivotal role in making this resource…
From the CFP: The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is accepting proposals for its annual Scholarly Publishing Conference, to be held August 11-14, 2015 in Vancouver. Abstracts are being solicited for 5-minute lightning talks and 2-day development sprint. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2015. Source: CFP: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
From the post: The School of Computing at the University of Kent is currently advertising an exciting and innovative interdisciplinary research project lead by Dr Peter Rodgers (Computing) and Dr Benjamin Vis (Classical and Archaeological Studies). We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD student with advanced software development skills. The ideal candidate would also have…
Because my last tutorial, The Complete n00b’s Guide to Mapping in R, received a positive response, I decided to create another beginner’s guide to visualizing data. For this edition, I’ve chosen Gephi, an excellent and simple tool to do social network analysis. This tutorial is meant to get you started quickly and provide the basics…
Digital Humanities suffers from a lack of perspectives in two ways: we need to focus more on the perspectives of those who interact with the cultural objects we study, and we need more outside academic perspectives. In Part 1, I cover Russian Formalism, questions of validity, and what perspective we bring to our studies. In Part…
From the posting: Reporting to the Mass Digitization Project Manager, the Digitization & Services Coordinator will provide planning, coordination, analysis and communications support for UC systemwide digitization projects, including projects in partnership with Google, the Internet Archive, and other digitization agents. In addition, this position will support the UC Library Reprints Service, and may provide…
From the posting: California State University, Northridge seeks candidates for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Digital Humanities skills (e.g. Mapping, Network Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Data literacy, Digital Scholarly editing). Secondary interests may include: Social Media Studies, Popular Cultural Studies, Computational Linguistics, Elementary Education, Russian Studies, Modern China Studies, Sustainability Studies. Source: Tenure-Track…
From the post: I took programming in high school, but I never took to it. This, I strongly believe, is because it wasn’t taught right—and teaching it right means starting at the beginning, with unix. The reason for this is three-fold: (1) it gives you a deeper sense of how a high-level computer works (which…
From the post: One a recent long flight (from Dubai back to Dallas) I spent some time working with the metadata dataset that the Digital Public Library of American’s (DPLA) provides on its site. I was interested in finding out the following pieces of information. What is the average number and standard deviation of subjects-per-record…