From the announcement: Close, distant, scaleable, surface, hyper, machine-assisted. On paper, on screens, or not at all. Questions about how people read – how they read in the past, how they read in the present and how they might read in the future – fundamentally concern all humanistic disciplines. Find out more: CFP: Reading beyond […]
From the posting: Serves as the primary liaison between the Digital Library of Georgia and the state’s public libraries. Oversees the Georgia HomePLACE (Providing Library and Archives Collections Electronically) project and provides support in planning, budgeting, scheduling, facilitating, reporting and publicizing HomePLACE collaborative digitization projects. Read More Source: Director, Georgia HomePLACE at University System of […]
From the post: The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is hosting a full day symposium titled “Saving the Web: The Ethics and Challenges of Preserving What’s on the Internet” on June 16, 2016. Full information is here: https://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/news/save-web-2016.html Source
This is the text of a short ‘provocation’ I presented at an event called Cityscapes: Past, Present and Future. The event took place at Senate House on the 1st of June 2016, and marked the launch of Cities@SAS – an initiative to create a cross-disciplinary dialogue about cities between the institutes of the School of Advanced […]
So, you might guess by this image (from @LegoAcademics!) that I’m something of a linked open data pessimist. I’ve just come off of a dissertation that relied for half of its data on a large RDF museum database that was open, rich in complex and nuanced historical information, and rigorously structured… but lacked any real […]
From the posting: Principal duties: Manage born digital collections: working with library and campus partners to ingest, preserve, describe and make available archival materials in digital form; identifying digital media to be added to the Archives’ collections; identifying/testing software to help with born digital materials; overseeing the Archive’s Archive-It site…Read More Source
From the posting: The Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communications will provide leadership and coordinate scholarly communication activities for Duke University. Working with library colleagues, s/he will offer training and consultative services for the university community about intellectual property issues and their impact on the nature and conduct of scholarly inquiry and instruction. S/he will […]
From the post: I’ve been working and writing a lot lately about using the web annotation tool hypothes.is for public scholarship. It has a lot of cool uses ― not only the collaborative annotation of individual web pages, but also the creation of a public research notebook, and the possibility of linking hypothes.is with other […]
This is the first of a series of blog post applying text mining and other DH techniques to the evolving student protest movement demanding racial equality. What can DH techniques tell use about student demands and administration responses? Are faculty and students talking to each other or at each other? This project is a collaborative […]
I came to the Doing Sport History in the Digital Present workshop last week as an American Studies scholar and may have left a sport historian. This proclamation only becomes relevant in the context of the aims of the DSH workshop, in which 15 participants from a variety of scholarly approaches and interests came together at Georgia […]
