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Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture’s Digital Collections Fellowship

From the post: It’s clear that #VastEarlyAmerica includes not only an expansive conceptual, geographical, and chronological scope, but also new and exciting methodologies. The possibilities for doing digital historical scholarship, from research to publication platforms, have expanded exponentially over the last decade; I find this a tremendously encouraging sign about the vitality and future of […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: New Viewer for Digitised Items in the British Library’s Collections

From the announcement: Users of the British Library’s online catalogue may have noticed that some digitised collection items are now displayed in a new viewer. The new viewer, built with the ‘Universal Viewer‘ software and community and using the IIIF standard for image interoperability, makes several new features available to readers. Read full post here.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Force-Directed Graph in VR

I recently released the v2.0-alpha version of Hover UI Kit, which is a tool for building VR/AR user interfaces. Of course, as an “alpha” release, there are bound to be bugs and other issues. The best way to test out a tool is to actually use it… which leads to today’s development update. The video below […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Truthy Lies and Surreal Truths, A Plea for Critical Digital Literacies

Misinformation abounds. This has always been the case, but the problem has become acute in the age of digital communication. As Mike Caulfield and Zeynep Tufekci have been showing in the week following the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook is particularly susceptible to this problem. Of course, Facebook is not alone. The ease with which […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference 2017

From the CFP: The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2017 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University, from May 29th to 31st (http://congress2017.ca/). The theme of this year’s […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Associate Curator of Digital & Emerging Media

Shangri La is recruiting an Associate Curator of Digital and Emerging Media. From the ad: Shangri La is a museum for learning about the global culture of Islamic art and design through innovative exhibitions, guided tours, public programs and digital initiatives. Built in 1937 as the Honolulu home of American heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: HTRC Releases New Dataset

From the announcement: Unique in its sheer size and breadth, a new open dataset released by the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) will provide researchers with access to otherwise restricted information. The HTRC Extracted Features (EF) Dataset reports quantitative counts of words, lines, parts of speech, and other details extracted from each page of the more […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Maps and Mining

This month I’ve been busy working on two projects related to my Mining & Historical GIS work. Learning how to use ArcMap tools (I focused on XY to Line) to make flow maps. Getting my data (both existing and forthcoming) out of ArcMap and into a more accessible form. Read full post here.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Digital Texts and the Humanities, Innovative Collaboration and Publishing

The Commons Open Repository Exchange (CORE) by MLA Commons offers open access to various articles and resources across the humanities. CORE allows scholars to publish and archive their work, while receiving feedback from MLA members.This is just one example of online publishing platforms that are becoming more and more common in the humanities. Read full […]