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Author: Jon Cawthorne, Vivian Lewis, and Lisa Spiro

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective

In this presentation from CNI’s spring 2015 meeting, Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia), Vivian Lewis (McMaster) and Lisa Spiro (Rice) present key results from a pilot global benchmarking study on digital scholarship expertise. The project involved visiting leading digital humanities and digital social science organizations in several countries and conducting interviews with research staff, faculty, graduate students, and […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Transforming the Site and Object Reports for a Digital Age: Mentoring Students to Use Digital Technologies in Archaeology and Art History

This article considers two digital assignments for courses at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. In one, students developed digital site reports in the form of individual websites about archaeological sites in the Greco-Roman Near East and Egypt (Art and Archaeology of the Greco-Roman Near East and Egypt, Spring 2013), and in […]

News, Resources

Resource: Belfast Group Poetry – Networks

Meeting at Philip Hobsbaum’s house in the shadow of Queen’s University, the Group read and commented on the drafts of each others’ poems, plays, and stories. Notable members of the Group included Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Michael Longley. Read drafts from these poets and others. Belfast Group Poetry|Networks.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

  GALEN is a long-term project to produce the first comprehensive digital corpus of translations between Greek, Arabic and Latin. The project seeks not only to include the medieval translations from Greek into Arabic (8th-10th Century AD) and again from Arabic into Latin (11th -13th Century AD), but also to comprise the modern translations of […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Walters Art Museum goes CC0

From the announcement: In 2012, the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, became one of the first American cultural institutions to adopt an open license model for their digitized collections. Using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, they released over 18,000 images into the OpenGLAM world. These images were not only available via the Walters website, […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Dat Goes Beta

  From the announcement: Dat is a data collaboration tool. We think most people will use it to simplify the process of downloading and updating datasets, but we are also very excited about how people will use it to fork, collaborate on, and publish new datasets for others to consume.   View the full announcement or View […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Teaching Fellow in Digital Asset & Media Management

From the announcement: This post is a 12-month teaching fellow position available from the 1st September 2015 in the Department of Digital Humanities. The successful applicant will deliver excellent postgraduate and undergraduate teaching on the rapidly growing MA in Digital Asset and Media Management (MA DAMM), in particular on the core module and the optional […]