JITP welcomes work that explores critical and creative uses of interactive technology in teaching, learning, and research. We invite submissions of audio or visual presentations, interviews, dialogues, or conversations, creative works, manifestos, or jeremiads as well as traditional long-form articles. Submissions might explore content-neutral uses of technology, such as blogs, clickers, or multimedia projects, used […]
My response to OPEN THREAD: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS A HISTORICAL “REFUGE” FROM RACE/CLASS/GENDER/SEXUALITY/DISABILITY?, http://dhpoco.org/2013/05/10/open-thread-the-digital-humanities-as-a-historical-refuge-from-raceclassgendersexualitydisability/#comment-1907: This is a rich and multifaceted discussion. I just want to add one observations that it has made me ponder. The discussion has made me think about the metaphor of “tools” in digital humanities work. This makes sense, because the word […]
Read David Golumbia’s post on the “Dark Side of the Digital” conference yesterday? Consider this: In 2007, Martha Nell Smith observed: When I first started attending humanities computing conferences in the mid-1990s, I was struck by how many of the presentations remarked, either explicitly or implicitly, that concerns that had taken over so much academic work in literature—of gender, race, […]
The goals of this project are to (a) make running topic models easy for anyone with a modern web browser, (b) explore the limits of statistical computing in Javascript and (c) allow tighter integration between models and web-based visualizations. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mimno/jsLDA/
A full report on the Digitisation Doctor workshop of April 15 is now available, along with many of the presentations given on the day. A brief summary of the day with links to presentations can be found below: Resources from Digitisation Doctor workshop now available | Wellcome Library.
Project Open Data, a new White House resource, is an online collection of code, best practices, and case studies developed to help agencies adopt the framework presented in the memorandum on “Managing Government Information as an Asset to Promote Interoperability and Openness.” via Project Open Data.
We will be putting software prototypes in front of researchers to gather feedback on both the concepts and implementation, and coordinating open-source development projects to implement many of these ideas. We would love to have you join this effort – please sign up to participate. Announcing PLOS Labs – Call For Participation | The Official PLOS Blog.
We are asking for your help to identify “Open Science” Champions of Change—outstanding individuals, organizations, or research projects promoting and using open scientific data for the benefit of society. Seeking Outstanding “Open Science” Champions of Change | The White House.
This special issue of NANO (http://www.nanocrit.com/) asks how, when, and for whom digital humanities is also public humanities, with particular attention to project-based research. CFP: NANO (New American Notes Online), Special Theme: Digital Humanities, Public Humanities
This special issue of Environmental Humanities aims to reflect on intersections between digital and environmental humanities from a variety of perspectives. We hope this collection will enrich understandings of the extent to which digital technologies and resources are informing current environmental humanities scholarship, while also identifying opportunities and challenges that these new tools present. CFP […]
