Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, three workshops on humanities data curation will be offered in 2013-14. Find out how to apply below. Next Workshop Location: College Park, MD Dates: October 16-18, 2013 Apply by: August 7, 2013 Thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, limited funding will be […]
In previous posts we downloaded a single book from the Internet Archive, calculated word frequencies, searched through it with regular expressions, and created a permuted term index. In this post, we extend our command line methods to include automatically downloading an arbitrarily large batch of files and building a simple search engine for our collection of sources. […]
In November 2012 the United States Postal Service reported a staggering deficit of $15.9 billion. For the historian, this begs the question: was it always this bad? Others have penned far more nuanced answers to this question, but my starting point is a lot less sophisticated: a table of yearly expenses and income. So, was the postal department always […]
The open learning innovation contest invites innovators whose work embodies the principles of connected learning to submit their stories and experiences for consideration. They might be running online or offline courses, activities, learning programs, study groups, or hybrid classes or out-of-school (extra-institutional) activities having to do with independent learning and volunteer work. The contest focuses […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites its members to propose a Special Interest Group (SIG). By forming a SIG, those with similar professional specialties, interests, and aptitudes can exchange ideas, stay current, and mobilize to pursue common goals across the boundaries of ADHO’s individual Constituent Organizations. For example, ADHO’s first SIG, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH), aims to reduce barriers to communication and […]
Digital Preservation Tool Grid. This tool grid is the product of researching digital preservation tools by Digital POWRR team members in early 2013. The information included is accurate to the best of our knowledge, but some information may be incorrect or have changed. We learned the information from various sources including tool websites, contacting the […]
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the second series of the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin [1]. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar [2], is organised in association with the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. It will run during the winter […]
The Five Hundred Year Archive project focuses on bringing together scattered, lost, misidentified and inaccessible records of pre-colonial Southern Africa. Post-docs and research scholarships are available for digital archivists and graduate students: The Five Hundred Year Archive (FYA) project by the Archival and Public Culture Research Initiative (APC) builds on a resurgence of research interest […]
A full-time, tenure-track, academic post (research and teaching) in the digital humanities has been advertised at KU Leuven. From the jobsite: We are looking for a candidate with a PhD in one of the Arts Faculty’s fields of cultural scholarship (history, literature, fine arts, musicology, archaeology, area studies) or in Digital Humanities and whose research shows substantial […]
“How people perished in the Ghetto – that I understand; what I cannot understand is how they lived.” — Chaim Grade. reVilna is a digital mapping project dedicated to understanding how the residents of the Ghetto lived, how the ghetto functioned — even, given the circumstances, flourished — how it emerged, and how, ultimately, it was […]
