Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Call for Lightning Talk Presentations at CUNY

We are now accepting presentation proposals that highlight ongoing, current, and recent digital humanities work across The City University of New York, and would like to encourage you to consider participating. All disciplines, all research, and all students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend and present. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, November 10th, 6:30-8:30pm […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Online Tool Aims to Help Researchers Sift Through 15 Centuries of Data

Digital humanities scholars from NC State University and Texas A&M University are launching a powerful new system to help researchers more quickly and accurately sift through hundreds of thousands of archives and articles related to materials dating from 450 A.D. to the 20th century. The new tool, called BigDIVA, will be formally unveiled later this […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Spanish Issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly

With the goal of highlighting the work of Digital Humanities in Spanish to our audience, we invite you to participate in a special issue of the Digital Humanities Quarterly magazine. This number is the first of several planned for DHQ in different languages or regional traditions. The deadline for submitting articles is January 30, 2016. […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Making Open Access Work

The major question associated with open access is no longer whether OA should be at the centre of the mainstream scholarly communication system, but how? The key challenges are now about how to make OA work, not whether it should happen at all. That was the conclusion I came to following a large-scale analysis of […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: ACLS Digital Extension Grants

ACLS invites applications for the ACLS Digital Extension Grant program, made possible by the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that these grants will help advance the digital transformation of humanities scholarship by extending […]

News, Resources

Resource: DPLA Releases New Self-Guided Curriculum for Digitization

Through the Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP), DPLA has been working with existing DPLA Service Hubs to provide digital skills training for public librarians and connect them sustainably with state and regional resources for digitizing, describing, and exhibiting their cultural heritage content. Now at the end of the project, we’ve made this curriculum available in a self-guided version […]