The MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research will publish a special issue in autumn 2014 titled “Digital Humanities – Now and beyond”. The editors welcome submissions to the following topics of interest: – What have we learned from the digital humanities so far? – What is the future of the digital humanities? – How […]
A Digital Re-Creation of John Donne’s Gunpowder Day Sermon The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project helps us to explore public preaching in early modern London, enabling us to experience a Paul’s Cross sermon as a performance, as an event unfolding in real time in the context of an interactive and collaborative occasion. This Project uses architectural modeling software and acoustic simulation software to […]
The Digital Public Library of America was launched in April 2013. Explaining what it actually was, Dan Cohen, the Executive Director, pointed to three key elements: the DPLA was a portal, a platform, and an advocate for open public access to scientific and cultural content. We understand portals – they’re just web gateways or starting points. Similarly, […]
Digital Humanites Now has had a facelift! In honor of DHNow’s fourth anniversary, PressForward graduate research assistant Sasha Hoffman has redesigned our website to improve readability and provide more information about our processes. To highlight scholarship surfaced by DHNow, the five most recent Editors’ Choice selections are now featured first on the home page. The […]
The New Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), consisting of the libraries of The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Frick Collection, seeks an experienced information professional to coordinate a two year grant funded program to expand and improve its program for collecting and archiving web content of specialist art resources. See full ad […]
The University of South Carolina seeks an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities. See job ad here.
The HILT conference is being held at the University of Maryland August 4-8, 2014. Registration is now open. See information here.
Dreaming of What Might Be examines the contentious but significant history of the labour organization known as the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor. The comic book shows how the organization took root in Canada and “encouraged people to ‘dream of what might be’ and take action on the job rather than give […]
Recent research indicates a high recall in Google Scholar searches for systematic reviews. These reports raised high expectations of Google Scholar as a unified and easy to use search interface. However, studies on the coverage of Google Scholar rarely used the search interface in a realistic approach but instead merely checked for the existence of […]
The peer-reviewed, online art history journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, has funding available for the development of articles that take full advantage of new web technologies either in the research or the publication phase, or both. Read full post here.
