In Spring 2013, I taught LAT312K: Intermediate Latin at the University of Texas-Austin. This was the fourth and last required course in the Latin sequence at UT and focused on Vergil’sAeneid. The course functioned both as a cap to a student’s Latin experience (several of my students were graduating seniors finishing off their required courses) […]
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is over, and it’s time to recap what has been done during a greatly productive summer. Not only has my project has achieved its main objectives, but as a result I was able to demonstrate the results at the École Thématique, Centre d’Étude Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France […]
The Open Access Button is a browser-based tool that lets users track when they are denied access to research, then search for alternative access to the article. Each time a user encounters a paywall, he simply clicks the button in his bookmark bar, fills out an optional dialogue box, and his experience is added to […]
The Thematic Survey took place to gather more significant data on digitisation of cultural heritage in Europe. There were three thematic surveys. They have been implemented in February to April 2013. At the heart of the ENUMERATE Thematic Surveys were the topics: SIZE of digital collections COST of digitisation ACCESS AND USE of digital collections […]
The ACRL Literatures in English Section is working on a proposal to sponsor an ACRL publication about digital humanities and subject specialists. We are looking for approximately 10-15 chapters that examine the role of the librarian subject specialist in digital humanities. Proposal Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2013 Read full call here.
Here are some live notes from the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art symposium “American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration”. Read full report here
The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame seek a knowledgeable and dynamic individual in the field of American History. We are looking for talented, flexible, enthusiastic applicants who have a passion for the teaching and research missions of the university and understand the Libraries’ role in advancing those missions. The successful candidate will […]
For the past 20 years I’ve been studying the links between feminist art and the women’s liberation movement. During a sabbatical a few years ago as I travelled from archive to archive I realized the centrality of Carolee Schneemann to the networks I write about. When I saw the edited collection of her letters, I […]
At the end of my recent blog post on a data visualization project, I had more questions than answers. I set out to answer one question—had the Museum of Modern Art been collecting American artworks since the museum was founded?—and left wondering what else we could learn about a museum’s collecting practices using big data. In […]
The Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), together with the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE) and its research programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces (IPSE)) — and the University of Luxembourg’s Master’s in Contemporary European History, are pleased to organise the DHLU […]
