The Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is undertaking a long-term initiative to foster digital humanities research among its faculty, staff, and students. As part of this initiative, CMU seeks an experienced Developer to collaborate on cutting edge interdisciplinary projects. The Developer would work alongside researchers from Dietrich and elsewhere […]
We invite colleagues all around the world and at all stages of their careers to submit papers on the topic of “Digital Approaches and the Ancient World” to a themed issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. The topic is to be construed as widely as possible, to include not only the […]
The PressForward team is excited to announce the release of PressForward 3.7, an update to our WordPress plugin that helps you collect, discuss, and share content from the web. In addition to numerous bug fixes, this update brings refinements to the Subscribed Feeds panel and new features to the feed submission and management process. This update […]
The following is a position paper for an upcoming workshop on the dissertation convened by the Council of Graduate Schools. I’ll be speaking on a panel focusing on what new technologies enable us to do with this critical milestone in graduate study. My main argument is that while the affordances of specific technologies can be exciting, more important is the […]
Following the success of our first workshop back in May we’ve been busy developing and planning a next round of events. First up is a day-long workshop on ‘Crowd-Sourcing, Co-Creation and Co-Curation in the Cultural Sector.’ This event will take place on December 1, 2015 at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. The workshop’s sister event is a Knowledge […]
From the announcement: The Tropy team is surveying humanities scholars to identify various academic research practices for the collection and management of archival images. Tropy is a major new RRCHNM initiative led by Sean Takats and Stephen Robertson. Thanks to the generous support of theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation, Tropy will fill a crucial need in the […]
From the ad: The Child Studies Program in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University invites applications from qualified candidates for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, to commence on July 1, 2016. Qualifications include: a Ph.D. at the time of application; demonstrated excellence in teaching; a track record of research […]
We are delighted to invite proposals for Digitorium 2016, a large-scale, international Digital Humanities conference to be held for the second time at the University of Alabama from 3rd-5th March 2016. Read full CFP here.
Reproducibility is one of the cornerstones of science. Made popular by British scientist Robert Boyle in the 1660s, the idea is that a discovery should be reproducible before being accepted as scientific knowledge. For most of the history of science, researchers have reported their methods in a way that enabled independent reproduction of their results. But, since […]
In episode 23 we talk with David Mimno of Cornell University about his work in the digital humanities (and explore what machine learning can tell us about lady zombie ghosts and huge bodies of literature) Ryan introduces us to probabilistic programming and we take a listener question about knowledge transfer between math and machine learning. Listen to podcast here.
