From the ad: Cornell University Library’s Information Technology group seeks an experienced senior software engineer to serve as Lead System Architect for the next generation system of arXiv.org – the premier open access platform serving scientists in physics, math, computer science, and other disciplines. As a member of the arXiv “next generation” team (arXiv-NG), the lead […]
The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its sixth annual conference, to be held at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, September 11-12, 2017. From the announcement: The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite proposals globally on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with […]
From the ad: I am currently the Data Lab’s sole member. And I’m recruiting…I’m looking for two members to join me in laying the foundation. This isn’t about getting in on the ground floor, it’s forming the floor itself. Every member of the team will take part in moulding this Lab over the next two years.While […]
From the announcement: The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative has just announced the its first sequence, Race, Space, and Place, which explores themes of African American labor, migration, and artistic expression, through a series of complementary Reading Groups (RG), Digital Humanities Incubator (DHI) and Digital Dialogues. A collaboration between MITH and the College […]
We humans have been mapping space for many centuries, and our maps have greatly improved over this time so that now they are very useful for navigating…Maps are for humans, but how do animals, which began navigating millions of years before parchment was invented, manage to find their way around? Do animal (and human) brains […]
The use of computational methods for ancient world geography are still very much dominated by the URI based gazetteer. These powerful and flexible reference lists, trail-blazed by projects such as the Pleaides and Pelagios projects, allow resources to be linked by common spatial referents they share. However, while computers love URIs unconditionally, the relationship they […]
Arizona State University is recruiting a Project Manager. From the ad: The IHR Nexus Lab is seeking qualified candidates for the position of full time Project Manager. This position will oversee not only internal projects, but will also be 50% dedicated to project management of the new HASTAC-ASU partnership, including maintenance of the Drupal 5 […]
One of the central and most far-reaching promises of the so-called Digital Humanities has been the possibility to analyse large datasets of cultural production, such as books, periodicals, and newspapers, in a quantitative way. Since the early 2000s, humanities 3.0, as Rens Bod has called it, was posited as being able to discover new patterns, […]
This talk departs from a seemingly simple question: “What is the story we tell about the origins of modern data visualization?” And as a set of follow-ups, “What alternate histories might emerge, what new visual forms might we imagine, and what new arguments might we make, if we told that story differently?” To begin to answer […]
From the post: The Programming Historian Needs YOU…to help historians digitally analyse! We’ve published 57 peer-reviewed tutorials since we launched in 2012, and we’re proud of our pioneering role within digital humanities. These lessons are on topics as wide-ranging as introductory Python programming, Web Scraping, and Regular Expressions. Many of our lessons involve learning how to […]
