Funding & Opportunities, News

Award: RSA-TCP Article Prize in Digital Renaissance Research

The Renaissance Society of America and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) are jointly offering a prize that seeks to recognize and encourage the scholarly use of the vast range and depth of Renaissance materials made available by digitization.  The purpose of the prize is to recognize and reward original research that makes substantial and significant use of digitized archives of […]

News, Reports

Report: Women’s History, and . . . Metadata?! – Women’s History in the Digital World

Toward the end of March I had the wonderful opportunity to present at an inaugural conference on the subject of Women’s History in the Digital World (#WHDigWrld on Twitter), at the Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education (at Bryn Mawr). Not only did this event allow me to meet many people doing wonderful work with […]

News, Resources

Resource: Internet Archive, 450,000 Early Journal Articles Now Available

Internet Archive announces today the addition of over 450,000 journal articles from the JSTOR Early Journal Content collection. Early Journal Content is a selection of pre-1923 materials from more than 350 journals and includes articles in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and mathematics and other sciences. This content was digitized by JSTOR and is freely […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Inaugurating the Content Matters Interview Series: Deb Boyer from PhillyHistory.org

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group is excited to launch a new series for the Signal. We’re calling it Content Matters, and much like the Insights series that the Innovation Working Group has published here for few years now, the interview series will feature discussions and stories about the content that our members are passionate about, the importance of […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Filtering Scholarly Writing from the Open Web using Active Learning SVM

Every week Digital Humanities Now (DHNow) distributes the most important news and pieces for the field by publishing links on our website and Twitter feed. In order to identify the content most valuable to this broad and dispersed community, we rely on volunteers who help us read through the aggregated RSS feeds from our collection of 500+ […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: MITH Participating in Google Summer of Code 2013

http://mith.umd.edu/mith-participating-in-google-summer-of-code-2013/ MITH is pleased to announce that Google has selected us as one of a hundred seventy seven mentoring organizations to participate in the 2013 Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Google is offering students a stipend to work with MITH and other organizations on open source projects, giving students an opportunity to see software development and […]

Announcements, News

Announcing 23 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2013)

Announcing 23 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2013) | National Endowment for the Humanities The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 23 awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our September 2012 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 205 grantsjust announced by the NEH. Congratulations to […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: DPLA Launch

Digital Public Library of America » [April 18-19, 2013] DPLA Launch. On April 18-19, 2013, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will celebrate the groundbreaking work of hundreds of librarians, innovators, and other dedicated volunteers in our collective effort to build the first national digital library. We invite you to join us at the […]