From the announcement: The fellow will have the responsibility to take a leadership role in the advancement of the work in the standardisation work package of the Parthenos project. In particular, he/she will be responsible to set up the basis of a comprehensive documentation of recommended standards (introductory material, schemas, samples), design the structure of […]
During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. This program was not straightforward political propaganda, though it certainly supported U.S. government objectives. The musicians built relationships both musical and personal. By their presence and their performances, they also offered […]
Below is the text of a talk delivered at the Digital Antiquarian conference in May 2015. (The slides can be downloaded from the conference website). I am grateful to the conference organizers, Molly O’Hagan Hardy and Tom Augst, and the staff of the American Antiquarian Society, for the opportunity to present my work “under the dome.” When it comes to the digital humanities, my […]
From the announcement: The Department of English at the University of South Florida seeks applicants for the DeBartolo Professor in the field of digital humanities. Literary or rhetorical field is open, but the candidate should be interested in bridging the three concentrations of literature, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing at the graduate level through […]
From the post: This blog will introduce text capture by describing the different methods with a focus upon historical documents. I will introduce the basics of OCR and rekeying with discussion of handwriting and voice recognition. Source: Text Capture and Optical Character Recognition 101
From the announcement: This post is a 12-month teaching fellow position available from the 1st September 2015. The successful applicant will deliver excellent postgraduate and undergraduate teaching across all the department programmes offered with a particularly focus on the rapidly growing MA in Digital Asset and Media Management (MA DAMM) as well contribute to core […]
From the post: Partnering with close to 100 research libraries from around the world, HathiTrust holds about 595 terabytes of digitized textual data — that’s about 157 miles, or 10,000 tons of text. In 2010, HathiTrust launched the HTRC to help researchers around the world accomplish tera-scale data mining and textual analysis. The HTRC is […]
The following is the rough transcripts of a talk I gave at Fostering the Transatlantic Dialogue on Digital Heritage and EU Research Infrastructures: Initiatives and Solutions in the USA and in Italy at the Library of Congress in November 2014 (back when I worked there). As scholars become increasingly interested in approaching digital collections and digital objects […]
Leaders from eleven research libraries, national libraries, and nonprofit image repositories have formed the International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium (IIIF). Until now, many of the Internet’s image-based resources have been locked up in silos, with access restricted to custom-built applications. The IIIF supports uniform display of images of books, maps, scrolls, manuscripts, musical scores […]
UPDATED APPLICATION DEADLINE The Chapman Center for Rural Studies, in the History Department at Kansas State University, invites applications for a two-year visiting assistant professor position beginning August 2015 to expand the Chapman Center’s engagement with digital humanities in undergraduate research and public history. This position will involve the curation and expansion of existing digital […]
