[Note: this is a lightly edited and linked transcript of the Welcome that I gave for the PressForward Institute last week. — JFT] It is so nice to be here and to meet you all in person. And I am so glad that you all are here to meet each other. This PressForward Institute is […]
Museums are in the business of metadata. Behind the galleries of every great museum is a meticulously organized card catalog, file cabinet, or collection database being reshaped and repackaged for digital appetites. The museum collection is both a means and an end; the museum exists to seek out and display works, but also to act […]
From the post: There has been a lot of talk about GitHub at Digital Pedagogy Lab this week. Following are a few resources for learning and using GitHub for things like collaborative corpus-based projects, website publishing, etc. Read More: Getting Started with GitHub
From the post: The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) invites interested and qualified individuals or firms to submit a proposal for development related to Heidrun and Krikri, DPLA’s metadata ingestion and aggregation systems. Source: DPLA: New DPLA Contract Opportunity: Metadata Ingestion Development Contractor
From the ad: Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday August 15 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Sarah Hendriks (CISPE: Centro Internazionale Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi, Naples): ‘Digital technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri’ The technology available today could not even be dreamed of over […]
Literary critics have been having a speculative conversation about close and distant reading. It might be premature to call it a debate. A “debate” is normally a situation where people are free to choose between two paths. “Should I believe Habermas, or Foucault? I’m listening; I could go either way.” Conversation about distant reading is […]
After including the GenLit Project in my Experimental Writing course during the Fall 2014 semester, three senior undergraduates remained mesmerized by the perceived novelty of a generative, digital novel. For the following semester all four of us shared our frustrations, questions, and perplexities, which later drove our inquiry into the nature of the novel in […]
From the post: “Digital humanities” jobs exist in many different forms across different professional fields and disciplines. When seeking a digital humanities job, I recommend that the seeker narrow her focus to the kind of work that she wants to do and in what type of profession. Below is list of suggested places to find […]
From the posting: Brown University Library seeks a dynamic, visionary leader for the role of Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies. This position provides strong leadership and strategic direction in the development, delivery, and integration of new and existing systems, technology services, and digital initiatives across the libraries. S/he supervises department heads for the following […]
From the announcement: Registration is possible for the DiXiT convention about Technology, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition. DiXiT is a training network for young scholarly editors supported by the European Commission. The convention takes place September 16 to 18 at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in The Hague. Find […]
