An open-access journal allows free online access to its articles, obtaining revenue from fees charged to submitting authors. Using panel data on science journals, we are able to circumvent some problems plaguing previous studies of the impact of open access on citations. We find that moving from paid to open access increases cites by 8% […]
When I was asked to participate on this panel about digital humanities and the alternative publishing needs of faculty, I felt obliged to temper my delighted acceptance of the invitation with a caveat that “ scholarly publishing” (and its associated challenges) is not something I usually see as central to the work I do. One […]
UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics ESRC Summer School in Corpus Approaches to Social Science ERC Summer School in GIS for the Digital Humanities http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/
This CURATEcamp unconference offers an opportunity for curators, archivists, librarians, scholars, software developers, computer engineers and others to share, demonstrate and refine ideas about exhibition in the digital age. CURATEcamp Exhibition: Exhibition in and of the Digital Age | The Signal: Digital Preservation.
The Ohio State University Libraries have announced several openings as part of its Research and Education Faculty Librarian Cohort Search, including a Digital Humanities Librarian [pdf], a Geospatial Information Librarian [pdf], and a Data Management Services Librarian [pdf].
Reporting to the Academic Technology Manager, the Lead Academic Programmer architects and writes code for humanities and digital humanities projects, and provides project management and development team oversight for designated projects. This includes three primary areas: web development, instructional programming, and faculty-driven digital research projects. http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/
Located in new state-of-the-art facilities in Sydney’s inner city, COFA is investing in new talent by offering six positions to teachers/researchers of exceptional calibre and potential in the early stages of their academic career. We are especially interested in applicants with a record of bridging art, design, media, humanities, science and engineering to participate in […]
Topic modeling is a catchall term for a group of computational techniques that, at a very high level, find patterns of co-occurrence in data (broadly conceived). In many cases, but not always, the data in question are words. More specifically, the frequency of words in documents. In natural language processing this is often called a […]
The digital age and the tools it provides allow for a different mediation of knowledge than standard forms of scholarly communications. As noted by Abby Smith Rumsey these new methods have brought “fundamental operational changes and epistemological challenges [that] generate new possibilities for analysis, presentation, and reach into new audiences”.[2] The exhibit format in Omeka […]
I’ve built a Git Data Viewer, which wraps around a git repository (not necessarily GitHub), and exposes some information about the contents in a more data-user-friendly way than the standard GitHub view. Git for Data Publishing | Open Data Institute.
