Saturday 23rd February is Open Data Day 2013! Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. Open Data Day 2013 | Open Knowledge Foundation […]
National Day of Civic Hacking is a national event that will take place June 1-2, 2013, in cities across the nation. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs from all over the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to […]
The Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies in the Division of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver invites applications for a three year lecturer-postdoctoral fellow beginning Fall 2013. Eligible candidates will have received a Ph.D. no earlier than June 2012, and have an expertise in teaching and scholarship in the […]
Description: Media@McGill is a hub of interdisciplinary research, scholarship and public outreach on issues in media, technology and culture, located in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Media@McGill offers Postdoctoral Fellowships to promising scholars engaging in media-related research, as defined in Media@McGill’s mission statement. Postdoc: Media@McGill University […]
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is looking for a full-time legal fellow to join our Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data Project. Fellowship Opportunity: Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data | Berkman Center.
The e-Humanities Group of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences) is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to work on an EU-funded project ‘Policy Recommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe (RECODE)’. Vacancy Post-doc at e-Humanities Group in Amsterdam.
Closing date 19 February 2013 Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society – King’s College London – jobs.ac.uk.
Ukiyo-e Search provides an incredible resource: The ability to both search for Japanese woodblock prints by simply taking a picture of an existing print AND the ability to see similar prints across multiple collections of prints. Ukiyo-e Search was created by John Resig, a computer programmer and avid enthusiast of Japanese woodblock prints. In his personal research he […]
I recently presented a brown bag session on accessibility and the digital humanities for the Alabama Digital Humanities Center. The sources referenced in my session, along with some related resources, are listed below (crossposted from the ADHC blog). They are also available via the Diigo collaborative bookmarking site: mbfortson’s adhc_a11y Bookmarks on Diigo. Accessibility & the Digital […]
Introducing version control & git in 1.5 hours to undergraduates – Coffee|Code : Dan Scott. Our university offers a Computer Science degree, but the formal curriculum does not cover version control (or a number of other common tools and practices in software development). Students that have worked for me in part-time jobs or summer positions have […]
