News, Resources

Resouce: Adventures in Converting Subversion to Git

From the resource: While the Scholars’ Lab was founded in 2006, we manage a lot of projects that had their roots in the eText Center in the late 1990s. These projects have lived through the numerous “best practices” of the various eras, many still bearing the marks of those bygone eras (you see a lot of […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: DH Awards 2014 Results

From the announcement: The winners of the DH Awards 2014 are as follows. Once ‘accidental’ (and not so accidental) duplicates were removed there were 2117 ballots cast by members of the public over two weeks voting for one or more of the categories. Source: DH Awards 2014 Results | Digital Humanities Awards

News, Reports

Report: Data on the Web Best Practices

From the working draft: This document provides best practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web designed to help support a self-sustaining ecosystem. Data should be discoverable and understandable by humans and machines. Where data is used in some way, whether by the originator of the data or by an external […]

News, Reports

Report: “Researcher Perspectives on Publication and Peer Review of Data”

From the abstract: Data “publication” seeks to appropriate the prestige of authorship in the peer-reviewed literature to reward researchers who create useful and well-documented datasets. The scholarly communication community has embraced data publication as an incentive to document and share data. But, numerous new and ongoing experiments in implementation have not yet resolved what a […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities–The Princeton and Slavery Project

From the posting: Princeton University seeks candidates for appointment as a postdoctoral research associate housed jointly in the Council for the Humanities and the Center for Digital Humanities, and working closely with Prof. Martha A. Sandweiss (History). The successful candidate will spend half of their time developing a website for the Princeton and Slavery Project, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Problems with the Syuzhet Package

I’ve been watching the developments with Matthew Jockers’s Syuzhet package and blog posts with interest over the last few months. I’m always excited to try new tools that I can bring into both the classroom and my own research. For those of you who are just now hearing about it, Syuzhet is a package for […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Services Manager, Brown University

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Services Manager in the Brown University Library oversees the projects and facilities managed by the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) for the Brown community.   Working with colleagues from Digital Technologies and Research and Outreach Services, the Digital Scholarship Services Manager coordinates day-to-day Library work on faculty research projects, grant-funded […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Archivist

From the posting: The North Carolina Archives and Records Section, a leader in addressing the challenges of preserving digital information, is seeking an innovative and forward-thinking archivist to further develop standards and best practices for preservation of and access to permanent digital information and records and implementing a trusted digital repository. Source: Digital Archivist at […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage

From the announcement: The first Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage will be held in conjunction with the 12th ESWC 2015 Conference on June 1, in Portoroz, Slovenia and will provide a leading international and interdisciplinary forum for disseminating the latest research in the field of Semantic Web for the study of pre-modern scientific […]