Resource: November Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter Now Available
The November 2013 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available! Read the newsletter here.
Author: the Editors
Job: Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics-Language Science, RIT
The Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English tenure-track position to begin August 13, 2014 with specialization in computational linguistics and/or innovative technical methods in language science, with a focus on one or more areas of application. See the job posting.
Editors’ Choice: Ten New Digital Dialogues Video Podcasts Posted
MITH is delighted to announce that ten Digital Dialogues video podcasts from 2013 are now available. Here is a full list: October 29, 2013: Nicole Saylor, Head, American Folklife Center Archive – Archiving Folk Culture in the Digital Age October 15, 2013: Allen Renear, Interim Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois – Letting […]
Editors’ Choice: Checking In With Google Books, HathiTrust, and the DPLA
Google Books and HathiTrust have been making headlines in the library world and beyond for years now, while a new player, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), has only recently entered the scene. This article will provide a “state of the environment” update for these digital library projects including project history and background. It […]
Job: Open Rank Faculty Position in Digital Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our iSchool. We are particularly interested in candidates specializing in the digital humanities, but strong candidates in any related area involving the organization, management, preservation, retrieval, and analysis of information are encouraged to apply. In particular, we seek candidates who can contribute to our […]
Resource: Making Sense of Emergent Patterns in Networks
One of the properties of human relationships is that they are messy, inexact, and complex. We should not expect to find one perfect way to group or cluster a network of human relationships. If we do find such a perfect solution, maybe we have over-simplified the problem… Finding logical and plausible clusters in complex systems […]
Opportunity: Visualizing Time Challenge
ChronoZoom, an open source project initiated by Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley enables students to explore, create, and tell stories with timelines directly from within a web browser. As the 2013 recipient of the SXSW Interactive Award for Best Educational Resource, ChronoZoom is developing lesson plans to teach historical thinking concepts to middle and high school students. […]
Funding Opportunity: The National Digital Newspaper Program Accepting Proposals
The National Endowment for the Humanities is now accepting proposals for the National Digital Newspaper Program. The National Digital Newspaper Program is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to develop a searchable database of historically significant newspapers published in the United States. The Library of Congress hosts the site for this project at Chronicling America, a […]
Job: Distinguished Fellowships in Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY
Apply for 2014-2015 Distinguished Fellowships at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This is open not only to academics (with Ph.D., any level) but also to people doing Digital Humanities related work (programming, visualization, journalism, etc.) Note: Deadline for applications was extended November 13. The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center, […]
Call for Papers: Special Issue “Digital Humanities – Now and Beyond”
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 […]