Job Announcements, News

Job: Senior Web Developer at Modern Language Association

Job Description: The MLA is excited to announce this new position with the responsibility for building new connections between databases, a CMS, and an expanding array of Web publications and communication portals. This developer will be working with both the IT and the production teams to design and build a more flexible and modular infrastructure […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: National Survey of Digital Humanities in Community Colleges

“Bringing Digital Humanities to the Community College and Vice Versa” NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Project This ANONYMOUS survey was developed with support from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Start-Up grant. You will not be identified and your response will be combined with those of all respondents. THE SURVEY WILL TAKE […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Projects Manager, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington, D.C.

Title: Digital Projects Manager Immediate Supervisor: Director of Education Programming Summary: Ford’s Theatre Society seeks a Digital Projects Manager to be responsible for research and development of digital projects relating to the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, as well to provide guidance and support for other digital learning initiatives at Ford’s Theatre. To apply, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: Data Information Literacy (DIL) Symposium

Data Information Literacy (DIL) symposium hosted by the Purdue University Libraries on Sept 23rd and 24th. No registration for viewing the live stream is required. We hope that you will be able to join us, virtually, for this event.  The DIL Symposium will be recorded and made available afterwards through e-pubs, Purdue University’s Institutional Repository. http://laurientaylor.org/2013/09/13/data-information-literacy-dil-symposium-hosted-by-the-purdue-university-libraries-sept-23-24/

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Computational Linguistics and Literary Scholarship

At the Association of Computational Linguistics conference in Bulgaria last month, researchers from CMU presented a model for cinematic archetypes: “Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters.” The model uses the descriptive language of Wikipedia entries along with personal data of actors in films to automatically induce a set of character personas: the traitor, the flirt. As […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Art of Live-Tweeting

My purpose here, following in the spirit of Kathleen Fitzpatrick, is to consider how to cultivate good habits of live-tweeting in academic contexts… The guiding principle that should animate the live-tweeting of a lecture is the attempt to use public words to create a supportive community of thoughts, ideas, and people related to the theme under […]

News, Resources

Resource: Digital Environmental Humanities Network Workshop Notes

These are Geoffrey Rockwell’s conference notes on a Digital Environmental Humanities Network workshop. This workshop was help Sept. 7th and 8th, 2013 in Montreal and organized by Stephanie Posthumus and Stefan Sinclair. There isn’t a web site for the workshop, but there is a web site for the emerging area, Canadian Environmental Humanities. philosophi.ca : […]

News, Resources

Resource: Geospatial Historian tutorials

The Geospatial Historian  is a tutorial-based open access textbook, modeled on the Programming Historian, designed to teach humanists practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs. Geospatial Historian | beta website.