I’ve primarily delivered a version of this talk to digital humanities or plain old humanities or language and literature crowds (my own background being in English). Often times it evolves into a joint effort for the panelists to argue for the importance of injecting critical race/class/gender/queerness/ability into dh, but today, my goal is not to […]
Today, we are quite happy to announce a series of 4 2-day workshops addressing this very topic: “Building an Accessible Future.” This 2-day workshop — repeated 4 times in different geographical regions — is where humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals can learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies. We are […]
Ithaka S+R is launching a new training course starting in January 2014, Sustaining Digital Resources, specifically designed for leaders of digital projects who are developing sustainability plans for the digital resources they have created. Our focus is not on the technical aspects of preservation, but encourages participants to define the longer-range goals for their projects, […]
The American University in Cairo is recruiting a Digital Collections Archivist. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The Digital Collections Archivist plays a leadership role in digital initiatives, including building collections of digitized and born-digital archival materials, and facilitating access to those collections. The position holder reports to the University Archivist and supervises the RBSCL’s […]
Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology – Deadline Extended to October 1 Digital technologies are driving important changes in archaeology. Despite the increasing acceptance of digital technology in daily life, however, determining how to assess digital scholarship has proved difficult: many universities remain unsure about how to evaluate digital work along side more traditional […]
In 2012 I started supervising an English undergraduate dissertation: this was a online digital edition and it was my first experience of supervising a student’s digital project. What follows is a joint blog post of two parts – one from me and the other from Jess MacCarthy (the student) – that reflects upon our experiences. […]
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Assistant Professor of Practice in History: The History Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks candidates for an assistant professor of practice in History, to begin August 2014, to teach both classroom and online undergraduate courses and serve as the Department’s coordinator of digital pedagogy. View Posting
Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to offer a number of tuition scholarships for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. These scholarships cover tuition costs with the exception of a small, non-refundable administration fee (students $150, non-students $300). DHSI Scholarships
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress announces a new Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies to examine the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture and international relations using the Library’s collections and resources. http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kluge-digital.html
