From the announcement: The Scrypt software is a tool for computer-assisted decipherment of ancient alphabetic inscriptions, enabling the user to choose a set of possible readings for each cell of the inscription, and to automatically launch dictionary searches for selected regions of the text in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew dictionary.The name Scrypt is inspired by a […]
From the announcement: The Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, June 17-19, 2015. The call for papers includes a “Special Focus for 2015: From the Digital Humanities to a Humanities of the Digital” Source: CFP: New Directions in the Humanities Conference
From the announcement: As of January 1, 2015 our Open Access policy will be effective for all new agreements. During a two-year transition period, publishers will be permitted to apply up to a 12 month embargo period on the accessibility of the publication and its underlying data sets. This embargo period will no longer be […]
From the call for papers: A CFP for RSA 2016, 31 March – 2 April, Boston MA We welcome proposals for papers, panels, and or poster / demonstration / workshop presentations on new technologies and their impact on research, teaching, publishing, and beyond, in the context of Renaissance Studies. Examples of the many areas considered […]
From the post: From the holdings of Library and Archives Canada, to the Internet Archive, or smaller repositories like digitized presidential diaries, or Roman Empire transcriptions, there are a lot of digitized primary sources out there on the Web. You don’t need to be a “digital historian” to realize that sometimes there is a benefit […]
Videogames have an amazing potential for modeling societal processes. At the same time, videogames also embody the worldview of their creators on a procedural level. As such, it is a rare thing when a game is able to move beyond popular understandings of the world and approach it from a new and interesting direction. As […]
I watched Twitter and the CBC while the prosecutor was reading his statement. I watched the live feeds from Ferguson, and other cities around the US. Back in August, when this all first began, I was glued to my computer, several feeds going at once. A spectator. Yesterday, Mitch Fraas put the grand jury documents […]
From the Post: The Medieval Studies Program at Binghamton University (State University of New York) seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies in the field of Digital Humanities, beginning in Fall 2015. The appointment will be held jointly in Medieval Studies and either the Department of English or the Department of Romance Languages (French). Candidates for […]
From the post: The Kansas State Historical Society seeks to hire a Digital Archivist to support the State Research Collections Division’s management of born-digital and digitized archival collections, including but not limited to the Kansas Memory digital archives. See the full post here.
From the post: Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Consult on grant requirements related to data management, data sharing and publication Arrange and conduct data interviews with researchers Analyze, collect and curate electronic data, including bibliographic data Help establish standards and best practices for displaying data Assist with testing of new tools and visualization […]
