From the post: As part of the Eastern Academic Research Consortium (Eastern ARC), the University of East Anglia is seeking to fund two PhD students to develop world leading research in the area of Digital Humanities. The successful candidates will be expected to conduct their own doctoral research while at the same time furthering collaboration across…
Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The manager oversees the day-to-day administration and use of the digital asset management system, while also working hands-on with assets, data, and the system by directly contributing, organizing, describing, and disseminating assets. Working collaboratively with staff across the museum, the manager develops and supports sustainable practices around the digital…
In a post in August, I opened a discussion of how analyzing the meta-discourse surrounding MOBAs (Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas) may help us describe the relationship between player-performance in these games and bardic performance in ancient epic in a more interesting way. The point of such an analysis is not merely be to demonstrate that…
From the Post: The Medieval Studies Program at Binghamton University (State University of New York) seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies in the field of Digital Humanities, beginning in Fall 2015. The appointment will be held jointly in Medieval Studies and either the Department of English or the Department of Romance Languages (French). Candidates for…
From the post: The Kansas State Historical Society seeks to hire a Digital Archivist to support the State Research Collections Division’s management of born-digital and digitized archival collections, including but not limited to the Kansas Memory digital archives. See the full post here.
From the post: Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Consult on grant requirements related to data management, data sharing and publication Arrange and conduct data interviews with researchers Analyze, collect and curate electronic data, including bibliographic data Help establish standards and best practices for displaying data Assist with testing of new tools and visualization…
From the post: Successfully mining scholarly literature at scale is inhibited by technical and political barriers that have been only partially addressed by publishers’ application programming interfaces (APIs). Many of those APIs have restrictions that inhibit data mining at scale, and while only some publishers actually provide APIs, almost all publishers make their content available…
A one-week institute for community college faculty to engage with new digital methods, tools and practices for humanities teaching and scholarship. Participants will work with experts to translate current theory and practice in DH for the unique learning needs of community college students in open-access institutional contexts. Ultimately, this institute, which includes a public keynote…
From the post: Genre is often applied as a static classification: fiction, non-fiction, mystery, romance, biography, and so on. But the edges of genre are “blurry” (Underwood). The classification of genre can change over time and situation. Ideally, genre and all classifications could be modeled dynamically during content analysis. How can IBM’s Watson Content Analytics (WCA) help analyze…
This Digital Campus episode was recorded live by Chris Preperato during Friday’s second afternoon session of the RRCHNM’s 20th Anniversary Conference and was produced by Anne Ladyem McDivitt and Alyssa Toby Fahringer. Mills Kelly, Stephen Robertson, and Tom Scheinfeldt joined host Dan Cohen to recap the earlier sessions of the day, including discussions on failure, ECHO, History Makers,…