When most people think about the kind of super-high-performance games people build custom PCs for, they probably imagine some first-person shooter with fast action, huge explosions, and millions of polygons being rendered to the screen at real time. Few people would think of Dwarf Fortress, a game that is rendered with simple ASCII characters and […]
The Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities Project is organizing workshops in Boston, Austin, Lincoln and Atlanta on technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital environments. Get more information here.
Trust, privacy, and safety are critical to learning in an open online world. What tools do learners need to navigate, collaborate, and learn online with confidence? What tools and solutions will foster greater civility and respect in online learning environments? Join us as we explore the aspects of creating spaces where “students should have safe and […]
The National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities. See the full job ad here.
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami announces its annual graduate student conference, “Born-Digital: Reformatting Humanities in the 21st Century” to be held March 20-21, 2015. Submission deadline is November 1. See full CFP here.
The ACLS is recruiting a Collection Development Specialist. See the full ad here.
The Associate Director for the Digital Library provides vision and leadership for information technology; resource management and discovery; and digital projects and associated research and development. The position serves as administrator for three departments: Information Technology (23 FTE), Acquisitions & Discovery (24 FTE), and Digital Library Initiatives (11 FTE). The Digital Library Division designs, develops, […]
The Digital Preservation Network(DPN) is seeking an experienced individual to join our team building a national digital preservation system, to ensure future generations will have access to our digital cultural materials. Working as part of the DPN leadership team, the Services Manager will launch the production suite of DPN services and manage long-term relationships with […]
The proposed Palgrave Pivot series, “The Digital Nineteenth Century,” will publish short-form monographs (30 – 50,000 words) on topics at the intersection of nineteenth-century studies and the digital humanities. Partnering with the NINES Center (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) at the University of Virginia, this series will be retrospective and prospective, involving not only […]
In this post, Lisa Spiro (Rice University) provides an overview of the different facets of digital social sciences, observing points of connection with digital humanities. As a member of a research team investigating the skills and competencies important to digital scholarship, I’ve become interested in what “digital scholarship” means in different disciplines, particularly the social sciences and […]
