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Job: Digital Humanities Specialist at Getty Research Institute
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Editors’ Choice: Toward a New Deal
Today, some 20 years after its first formulation, there is little question of the validity of Jerome McGann’s core and repeated argument: that we humanities scholars and publics stand before the vast, near-wholesale digital transformation of our various and shared cultural inheritance. This transformation – more properly, these remediations – are fully underway. They open new avenues for the work of the […]
Editors’ Choice: Race in DH – Transformative Asian/American Digital Humanities
I’ve primarily delivered a version of this talk to digital humanities or plain old humanities or language and literature crowds (my own background being in English). Often times it evolves into a joint effort for the panelists to argue for the importance of injecting critical race/class/gender/queerness/ability into dh, but today, my goal is not to […]
CFParticipation: Building an #AccessibleFuture
Today, we are quite happy to announce a series of 4 2-day workshops addressing this very topic: “Building an Accessible Future.” This 2-day workshop — repeated 4 times in different geographical regions — is where humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals can learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies. We are […]
Opportunity: New Course in Sustaining Digital Resources (Applications due 30 Sept.)
Ithaka S+R is launching a new training course starting in January 2014, Sustaining Digital Resources, specifically designed for leaders of digital projects who are developing sustainability plans for the digital resources they have created. Our focus is not on the technical aspects of preservation, but encourages participants to define the longer-range goals for their projects, […]
Job: Digital Collections Archivist at American University in Cairo
The American University in Cairo is recruiting a Digital Collections Archivist. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The Digital Collections Archivist plays a leadership role in digital initiatives, including building collections of digitized and born-digital archival materials, and facilitating access to those collections. The position holder reports to the University Archivist and supervises the RBSCL’s […]
Opportunity: Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology
Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology – Deadline Extended to October 1 Digital technologies are driving important changes in archaeology. Despite the increasing acceptance of digital technology in daily life, however, determining how to assess digital scholarship has proved difficult: many universities remain unsure about how to evaluate digital work along side more traditional […]
Editors’ Choice: Digital Editing with Undergraduates: Some Reflections
In 2012 I started supervising an English undergraduate dissertation: this was a online digital edition and it was my first experience of supervising a student’s digital project. What follows is a joint blog post of two parts – one from me and the other from Jess MacCarthy (the student) – that reflects upon our experiences. […]
CFParticipation: Comment on draft of The Historian’s Macroscope: Big Digital History
Feel free to read, comment, critique, enjoy, and use. Your comments remain your intellectual property. Road test our material with your classes! http://www.themacroscope.org/