Tonight, I am a guest lecturer in a course on Museum Studies. I’ve been asked to help present the basics of the Digital Humanities. Here is my presentation. Feel free to use and transform (Creative Commons License below). See Full Presentation Here
Which brings me to my point: how can the other side of DH, the DH as using digital research methods to explore phenomena in the humanities, benefit from close(r) dialogue with HST? Franco Moretti’s most recent paper – ‘Operationalizing’ – uses the work of another path finding Obi Wan Kenobi of scholarship, Thomas Kuhn, to […]
Place names are a form of shared understanding, and of shared definition. This week has seen some important discussions at the University of Cyprus’s Archaeological Research Unit on the technical and conceptual approaches that our Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus will take; and how it will attempt to express shared understandings of place on the island. […]
This position is for a one year period (March 1, 2014 through February 28, 2015) for expert services in conjunction with FSU’s Islandora implementation and development project. FSU is currently involved in a project with FLVC to implement Islandora as a digital platform for FSU and other SUS libraries. See Full Posting Here
I was recently part of a panel organized by Holly Dugan at George Washington University on the topic of #altac and #postac careers. The storify from the tweets is worth reading through for the insights from my fellow panelists, Alyssa Harad, Evan Rhodes, and Meredith Hindley, and for comments from the audience. The first part […]
Historypin is setting up shop in one of the UCL cluster rooms and asking anyone who is interested in crowdsourcing to help with geo-tag 100s of paintings around the globe. 17:30 Wednesday 26th February B29, Foster Court We have been given access to the Imperial War Museums’ astounding First World War art collection. We need […]
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), a doctorate-granting institution of CUNY, is devoted to advancing original research and training graduate students in over 31 fields in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. We are seeking a Digital Humanities Manager to help coordinate and expand a growing set of digital initiatives […]
As you all know, the DH community is active and prolific. With that in mind, we are asking for your help to keep DHNow current. With the recent redesign of digitalhumanitiesnow.org and the reorganization of our Editors-at-Large management system, we thought now might be a good time to update the pool of RSS feeds from […]
Whilst this screwing around with the text has something in common with the rhetorical “play” emphasised in some theoretical trends of the last few decades, today it is most often linked to the “performative” aspect of reading. But I want to focus here on another type of similarity between computational analysis and play, a similarity […]
February 24,2014 Written by Amanda Morton, February 24th, 2014 Join the Digital Humanities Now FeedFest, and help us keep our RSS feeds up to date! Using the Pressforward plugin, DHNow pulls content from a collection of RSS feeds and allows Editors-at-Large to preview, sort, and nominate content for the editorial staff to review. In order […]
