An innovative digital humanities training program for graduate students at the University of Virginia has helped spawn a new international network of programs that prepare humanities students for careers within and beyond the traditional academic job market. The Praxis Network, which debuted last week, consists of graduate and undergraduate programs at several colleges and universities, each […]
The History Department at Boston College invites applications for a post-doctoral teaching fellowship to teach in the History Core program. Core courses cover the period from approximately 1500 to the present, introducing all undergraduates to a foundational knowledge of modern history and key historiographical debates. All specializations except American history are welcome to submit applications, […]
An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 1 I came to NDIIPP expecting to hear that institutions and the public weren’t prioritizing digital preservation, and that the next wave of librarians would need to shout from the rooftops to raise awareness that digital objects are facing mass obsolescence. I expected a clear, clean outline […]
In February, I visited Matthew Kirschenbaum’s #ENGL668K Introduction to Digital Humanities course at the University of Maryland, and I brought to class an activity that I had been mulling over in my own mind for a long time, called the Topic Modeling Game. The game is designed to teach the basic principles of topic modeling with LDA […]
Once upon a time in a land far far away there was a beautiful princess named Snow Byte. Snow Byte was a wonderful child who loved and was beloved by all who knew her, except for one. Her father, the king, had married a new wife and, as is often the case in fairy tales, […]
Public Knowledge Project announces the 1.0 release of Open Monograph Press | Public Knowledge Project. The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is very pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Open Monograph Press (OMP). OMP is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes, and scholarly editions through internal […]
New guide means citing films and audio in your content couldn’t be easier : JISC. The British Universities Film & Video Council’s (BUFVC) guidelines respond to the 2011 Jisc report, Film and Sound in Higher and Further Education: A Progress Report with Ten Strategic Recommendations. The report found that despite the exponential increase in the use of […]
Job opp: Asst. Prof Professor of Digital Media Design and Humanities at SUNYIT | HASTAC. The Department of Communication & Humanities at the SUNY Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. The department supports three programs: Communication & Information Design, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Information Design & […]
Call for Provocations: Pro-vocare, A New Collection of Sonically-Inspiring Projects | HASTAC. Deadline for Proposals: April 1, 2013 Toward that end, the Soundbox project solicits proposals for “provocations.” These can take a variety of forms, including but not limited to: events or experiments, staged at any location, both online and off ongoing installations produced collaboratively […]
Workshops – Prosop: a social networking tool for the past Call for participants Database development workshop Historians and other scholars with large databases of historical person data are invited to workshops to test and populate Prosop, a project funded by the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first of these […]
