Recently I received an email from an undergraduate student who expressed frustration with what is commonly being represented as the digital humanities. The student had found my name through doing some research on the intersections of activism and the digital humanities, and asked if I could provide some references that could get her oriented to […]
From the announcement: Courses for DHSI 2016 are starting to take shape, and we’re really excited about our coming offerings! Anticipated offerings are listed below. Courses and their scheduling are TENTATIVE at the moment. Thanks to overwhelming response from our community and the generous sponsorship of our partners, we’ll have a number of additional courses […]
From the announcement: Join the team at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at UAF, the largest library in Alaska! We are seeking a Systems Administrator/Digital Preservation Professional who appreciates the needs of an academic environment, enjoys working in diverse cultural settings and being part of a dynamic team of friendly, knowledgeable and dedicated individuals. […]
On Thursday 23 July I gave an introductory lecture on digital humanities at the ADEPT summer school at Queen Mary University of London. Slides are below; it’s the second summer school workshop I’ve given on DH in the past month. Digital Humanities: A brief introduction to the field from aelang Source: Introduction to Digital Humanities: […]
From the announcement: The European Science Foundation Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH) has recently launched the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO). NeMO is a comprehensive ontological model of scholarly practice in the arts and humanities and was developed by the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), ATHENA RC, in collaboration with the NeDiMAH […]
Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its second annual digital scholarship conference on November 6-8, 2015. The theme of the conference is “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Public Scholarship.” Find out more: CFP: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference
The issue of multilingualism vs lingua franca in science (and in society) is certainly very complicated, but the recent article by Gregory Crane raises some questions and a few concerns. In general, I think everybody would agree with Miran’s appeal on Humanist: “Let us invest in language diversity”. There are countless documents supporting multilingualism in […]
Two weeks ago, I attended the Middle Ages in the Modern World conference in Lincoln (and gave a talk on medieval vs. ‘medieval’ names if you haven’t already read the recap of that), which included an extremely interesting paper by Bridget Ruth Whearty (Stanford), “Of Scribes and Digitizers: Modern Digitization Studio as Medieval Scriptorium”, in […]
From the posting: The Digital Projects Librarian will manage digitization projects for the Libraries, upload items into the digital preservation system (currently Rosetta by Ex Libris), manage workflows and conduct quality checks, and prepare items for retrieval and display via the Libraries’ discovery layer (Primo by Ex Libris). The incumbent will also collaborate with library staff to […]
.entry-header From the announcement: Digital Humanities and Classics Research Seminar Wednesday June 24th, 18:00 Room K3.11, Strand Campus, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS Professor Gregory Crane Universität Leipzig and Tufts University Perseus, Open Philology and Greco-Roman studies for the 21st century Find out more.
