Is it possible to engineer the discovery of art? In 2013, two graduate students in MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) set out to answer that question, and today, thanks to their work as research assistants — there’s an app for that! Artbot, developed by Desi Gonzalez and Liam Andrew in the […]
The Digital Latin Library (DLL) project at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in interactive text visualization. Read the Full Post Here.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has released guidelines for Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grants. Read the Full Post Here.
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group is proud to open the nominations for the 2015 NDSA Innovation Awards. These awards are an example of the NDSA’s commitment to encourage and recognize innovation in the digital stewardship community. Read the Full Post Here.
The workshop covers essential questions that will need to be answered in order to create an efficient and sustainable workflow for digital preservation. The instructor will share digital preservation management strategies and provide practical planning tips and examples of workflows from differing organizations both large and small. Read the Full Post Here.
I’ve been working on an update to the small amount of work I did on the black woman suffrage database to present at Women’s History in the Digital World at the end of this month. Working with twice as many files (now 904 items) as I had for the first project (more details on corpus), […]
The summer is upon us, and I have had the great good fortune of a grant to be able to work with three IT students from Marymount on the Novels in Context project. We are all learning about how to collaborate using GitHub for version control, and I found myself in the exciting position of having to teach […]
The University of Waterloo is recruiting a Head, Digital Initiatives. Read the full post here.
The Digital Imaging Unit of NYPL Labs is seeking a knowledgeable and experienced Assistant Manager to help The New York Public Library to share its vast collections with the world through digitization. Read the full post here.
I am happy to announce that my site the Saharan World at a Glance (SWAG) is now live. This site is an education resource designed to introduce an undergraduate audience to the history, culture and politics of North Africa and the Sahel. This site is specifically conceived of as a tool that students will access […]
