From the ad: As a member of the Library Technology department, reporting to the Director of Library Technology, the Digital Initiatives Librarian provides quality service and support to library faculty, staff and patrons. They collaborate in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of digital projects to enhance user experience and improve workflows within the library. This […]
From the announcement: MoEML is excited to announce the launch of a beta version of our new hi-resolution, zoomable experimental Agas map interface. We encourage you to play around with the map and send us feedback on both its function and design so we can improve it before launching it officially later this year. Some […]
From the CFP: The 9th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015 which will take place in Beijing, China, July 26 – 31. The LaTeCH workshop series aims to provide a forum for researchers who are working on developing novel information technology for improved information […]
From the announcement: MITH is excited to announce the lineup of speakers for our Spring 2015 Digital Dialogues season! Our six speakers come from a wide variety of research specialties ranging from ranging from Digital Musicology to Literature/Digital Editions to Urban Media Art and Interaction Design. See the list of speakers and sign up: Mark your calendars … MITH’s Spring 2015 […]
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation –Plato From the beginning of the year, the Praxis cohort recognized ‘play’ as one of the key aspects of the Ivanhoe experience. Yet, how does play shape Ivanhoe? What are the effects of this play? In previous years, […]
In case you missed Jill Lepore has written a superb article for the New Yorker about the Internet Archive and archiving the Web in general. The story of the Internet Archive is largely the story of its creator Brewster Kahle. If you’ve heard Kahle speak you’ve probably heard the Library of Alexandria v2.0 metaphor before. […]
From the announcement: The Jisc Research Data Spring is a project that aims to find tools, software, and service solutions that will improve how researchers work, in particular how they use and manage data. The British Library Digital Research team are confident that infrastructures that deliver flexible and scalable access to large digital collections as […]
From the CFP: Following on the success of the first “Early Modern Digital Agendas” institute—an intensive survey of the most current resources and methods in digital research to be found in July 2013—”Advanced Topics” is a second three-week NEH institute to be hosted by the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Jonathan Hope, Professor […]
From the CFP: On 8 and 9 June 2015, the second DHBenelux conference will take place. The DHBenelux conference is a young initiative that strives to further the dissemination of, and collaboration between Digital Humanities projects in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg by hosting an annual conference in various institutions throughout these countries. The conference […]
From the report: The Digital Public Library of America launched on April 18, 2013, less than two years ago. And what a couple of years it has been. From a staff of three people, a starting slate of two million items, and 500 contributing institutions, we are now an organization of 12, with over eight million items […]
