In the interests of exploring what MOOCs are and can be, Hybrid Pedagogy ran an experimental, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, mini- micro- meta-MOOC about MOOCs endearingly titled “MOOC MOOC”. This week-long course ran in August 2012 with over 600 registrants and again in January 2013 with over 1000 registrants. (A follow-up, 24-hour MOOC ran in June 2013 […]
The Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, announces a postdoctoral research fellowship for the academic year 2013-2014 in the area of digital humanities. http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2013/07/18/postdoc-position-available-at-the-idhmc/
Reporting to the Digital Initiatives Librarian, the Digital Projects Librarian will be responsible for the long-term preservation of FAU’s digital collections in the Florida Digital Archive. The desired candidate will have an understanding of emergent and best practices, standards, issues, and trends relating to digital initiatives in an academic library environment. The primary responsibility of […]
We’re continuing to share a selection of papers that will be presented at the upcoming IFLA World Library and Information Congress that will take place next month in Singapore. Title MOOCs and the Library: Engaging with Evolving Pedagogy Author Mariellen Calter, Assistant University Librarian & Chief of Staff, Stanford University Libraries Abstract The emergence of […]
We are really pleased to announce that Textal, our text analysis app created in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, is now available for download! Textal is a free smartphone app for iOS that allows users to analyze documents, web pages and tweet streams, exploring the relationships between words in the text via […]
This post is based on a talk I gave at Vancouver Island University’s “DH Innovations: Lab Based Environments in the Humanities” conference in late May. The full title of the talk was ”Portable, Tacit, Temporary: Popup Makerspaces in the Humanities,” and during that talk I read aloud a portion of what’s below. I want to thank […]
We’re delighted to announce version 1.1 of the DHDebates platform, which includes a number of new features: Account creation and basic profile editing Commenting on sentences for anonymous and logged in users Display of comment counts per paragraph for the text JSON APIs for read-only access to the database These features provide a number of […]
The Penn State University Libraries in partnership with the College of the Liberal Arts seek a creative, forward-thinking scholar for the new position of Digital Humanities Research Designer. The Digital Humanities Research Designer will be familiar with a range of technologies and have direct experience bringing digital approaches to bear on research and teaching. The […]
Thanks to a group of wonderful instructors and an energetic, passionate cohort of students from around the world, the first iteration of our intensive digital humanities training institute was a great success when it was held in January 2013. We were inspired by the model pioneered at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) and we […]
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – DUE AUG 31st! HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event September 8-9, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I Hotel and Conference Center HTRC The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital […]
