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Author: Michelle Moravec

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Editor’s Choice: Impact of Social Sciences – The Historian’s Altmetrics: How can we measure the impact of people in the past?

How can historians measure the influence of intellectual contribution over time? Scraping from online catalogs and employing a range of digital humanities tools, Michelle Moravec looks at women’s liberation scholarship and explores the relationships between authors and essays. It is important to critically examine why certain contributions appear in our web searches and others do […]

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Editor’s Choice: The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?

If the notion for the past decade in digital humanities investment has been to let a thousand flowers bloom, it seems to have worked. Digital creation is no longer just the realm of specialists, IT developers, and librarians who manage collections. Today, with digital humanities (DH) hitting its stride, historians, philosophers, and poets not only […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: What Do Comparative Literature and Digital Humanities Have To Say To Each Other?: A Critical Approach

From the CFP: Whatever the reason, Comparative literature as a field of inquiry has not had as much engagement with Digital Humanities as some other humanities disciplines recently have. However, a fertile ground may well exist for a deep critical engagement of Comparative Literature with Digital Humanities — given, on the one hand, the interdisciplinary […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Programmer at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

From the announcement: This position would work with and direct students with a programming background, and occasionally gets pulled in to teach sessions or give workshops on aspects of programming for digital humanities courses, (un)conferences, and workshop series. The atmosphere is one of collaboration and learning.   Source: We are hiring a Digital Humanities Programmer!

News, Resources

Resource: Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released a recording of “Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective,” a presentation by Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University), Lisa Spiro (Rice University), and Xuemao Wang (University of Cincinnati) given at the Spring 2015 meeting. The presentation shares results from a Mellon-funded […]

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Editor’s Choice: Dealing With Data in Museums.

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 […]

News, Resources

Resource: Getting Started with GitHub

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

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Digital Technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri

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 […]