Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Carework and Codework of the Digital Humanities

When it comes to the digital humanities, my most strongly-held belief is that the field, in its most powerful instantiation, can perform a double function: facilitating new digital approaches to scholarly research, and just as powerfully, calling attention to what knowledge, even with these new approaches, still remains out of reach. I will illustrate this […]

News, Resources

Resource: A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights | Center for Digital Humanities – UCLA

From the announcement: UCLA’s Digital Humanities program emphasizes cross-disciplinary, cross-hierarchy collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. We’ve created this Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights as a statement of our values and principles in the UCLA DH program. Collaborations between students and more experienced digital humanities practitioners should benefit everyone. At their best, these partnerships are a […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Critical Blogging in Archaeology, A Special Volume of Internet Archaeology

From the introduction: This special volume of Internet Archaeology collects the leading voices of blogging in archaeology to provide a critical examination of informal, online self-publication. This collection of articles is one result of over a decade of digital communication; the confluence of a conversation that grew from a few lonely voices to a tumultuous […]

News, Resources

Resource: HathiTrust Resource Center Workset Browser

From the post: In my copious spare time I have hacked together a thing I’m calling the HathiTrust Research Center Workset Browser, a (fledgling) tool for doing “distant reading” against corpora from the HathiTrust. [1] The idea is to: 1) create, refine, or identify a HathiTrust Research Center workset of interest — your corpus, 2) […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Methods for Uncovering Reprinted Texts in Antebellum Newspapers

This is a pre-print version of this article. The final, edited version will appear in the online edition of American Literary History 27.3 (August 2015)…The Viral Texts Project is an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort among the authors listed here, with contributions from project alumni Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Kevin Smith, and Peter Roby. In the first […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Zotero Web Developer

The Zotero team is looking to hire a full-time developer to help extend the Zotero ecosystem. For more information, see our Stack Overflow ad: Web Developer for Open-Source Global Research Platform at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media