The University of Toronto Scarborough is recruiting two Application Programmers. From the ad: Reporting to the Coordinator of Digital Scholarship Unit and in collaboration with librarians and faculty leading digital scholarship projects, and taking direction from Information and Instructional Technology Services, (IITS) the incumbent is responsible for providing quality resources and technical expertise to the […]
The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University is hiring a contract Web/Graphic Designer. From the ad: The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University is hiring a contract Web/Graphic Designer to create a publicity web site to publish research outcomes for “Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Sylvia Beach Lending Library Project,” an ongoing digital humanities […]
If you claim computational approaches to history (“digital history”) lets historians ask new types of questions, or that they offer new historical approaches to answering or exploring old questions, you are wrong. You’re not actually wrong, but you are institutionally wrong, which is maybe worse. This is a problem, because rhetoric from practitioners (including me) is that we can […]
Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia’s recent article, “The LA Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,” argues that digital humanities “most significant contribution to academic politics may lie in its (perhaps unintentional) facilitation of the neoliberal takeover of the university.” Below is a 2nd round-up of responses. The 1st round-up […]
This workshop, sponsored by the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany, is part of the project “Der digital turn in den Altertumswissenschaften: Wahrnehmung – Dokumentation – Reflexion“ (Dr Stelios Chronopoulos, PD Dr Felix K Maier, Dr Anna Novokhatko). Digital tools and technologies have led to significant changes in Classics during the past 10 to 15 years. […]
You can assist existing research projects with tasks that need human intelligence, such as the accurate location of artefact findspots or photographed scenes, the identification of subject matter in historic archives, the masking of photos meant for 3D modelling, or the transcription of letters and catalogues. Other tasks might require on-location contributions by members of […]
Central Michigan University is recruiting an Archivist Manager/University Digital Records. From the ad: Develop and implement the operation of an ongoing electronic records program for University and University-related born digital records. Will work in cooperation with relevant CMU offices and officials and, insofar as possible, will work within the framework of existing institutional information technology […]
Registration for the Open Access Symposium 2016, held in Denton in May 19-20, closes on Saturday. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers from around the world. Do also consider attending the Library Publishing Forum 2016, an international event held this year in Denton just before the OA Symposium. Registration for that event is separate. Note there’s also an […]
Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia’s recent article, “The LA Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,” argues that digital humanities “most significant contribution to academic politics may lie in its (perhaps unintentional) facilitation of the neoliberal takeover of the university.” Below is a round-up of responses. In Defense of DH […]
So-called “movie barcodes” are both elegant to look at and useful ways to explore how color schemes and designs shift throughout a film. Image montages can also demonstrate how a visual corpus changes over time, and plotting an image set into a graph based on values like hue and saturation could provide a stylistic fingerprint for […]
