Opportunity: New PhD Studentship, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Library
‘Provincial Shakespeare Performance’ fully funded PhD studentship, University of Nottingham/British Library –closing date 7 June 2013
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Editors’ Choice: Metadata Games
Metadata Games is an online game system for gathering useful data on photo, audio, and moving image artifacts, enticing those who might not visit archives to explore humanities content while contributing to vital records. Furthermore, the suite enables archivists to gather and analyze information for image archives in novel and possibly unexpected ways. Check out […]
Conference: Automatic Pattern Recognition and Historical Handwritting Analysis
http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/conference-automatic-pattern-recognition-and-historical-handwritting-analysis/ The number of historical documents which are available in digital form has dramatically increased throughout the last five to ten years. Consequently, there has also been a significant growth in the development of computerized tools for the support of the analysis of such documents. The project “Script and Signs. A Computer-based Analysis of Highmedieval […]
CFP: The Philosophy of Information
http://figureground.ca/2013/05/13/topoi-calls-for-papers-the-philosophy-of-information/ TOPOI – Calls For Papers: The Philosophy of Information Deadline for paper submissions: 1 August 2013. Guest Editors: Bert Baumgaertner, UC Davies and University of Idaho Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire and University of Oxford INTRODUCTION: The information revolution has been changing the world profoundly and irreversibly for some time now, at a breathtaking pace, […]
Opportunity: Digital Treasures PhD Scholarships, University of Canberra
The Centre for Creative and Cultural Research is seeking two PhD students to join its new Flagship Program, Digital Treasures. Digital Treasures PhD Scholarships: Call for Applications : Faculty of Arts and Design : University of Canberra.
Resource: Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do
Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do | The Signal: Digital Preservation. Preservation Week 2013 might be over, but digital preservation must go on every week of the year. In truth, preservation is an ongoing, long lasting process that requires active management. Don’t despair, though. I have some helpful suggestions to help keep you in the preservation-y […]
Resource: North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements
The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project provides online access to all known runaway slave advertisements (more than 2300 items) published in North Carolina newspapers from 1751 to 1840. These brief ads provide a glimpse into the social, economic, and cultural world of the American slave system and the specific experience within North Carolina. Working from microfilmed copies […]
CFP: Design and the Digital Humanities, Midwest MLA
With this year’s M/MLA topic of “Art & Artifice,” the new Permanent Section on Digital Humanities will explore issues of, experiments with, and provocations on design. CFP: Design and the Digital Humanities – Josh Honn.
Editors’ Choice: Big Data Needs Thick Data
Big Data can have enormous appeal. Who wants to be thought of as a small thinker when there is an opportunity to go BIG? The positivistic bias in favor of Big Data (a term often used to describe the quantitative data that is produced through analysis of enormous datasets) as an objective way to understand our […]
Resource: Prism for Play
This week marks the release of a new version of Prism, a web-based tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation,” constructed over the course of two academic years by two separate cohorts of graduate fellows in our Praxis Program at the Scholars’ Lab.