Editors’ Choice: Using GIS to Explore Historical Texts
A podcast, video, and slides from Ian Gregory’s #dhist talk ‘Using GIS to explore Historical Texts’ is now available on HistorySpot. Podcast, Video, and Slides Available Here.
Author: Colleen Nugent
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Editors’ Choice: Visible Archives Series Browser for Manly Library
Over the past twelve months we have been developing some new approaches to the challenge of providing rich, revealing interfaces to cultural collections. The key idea here is the notion of generous interfaces – an argument that we can (and should) show more of these collections than the search box normally allows; and that there’s […]
Editors’ Choice: #AHA2013 and #MLA13 Roundup
Editors’ Note: Thank you to our Editors-at-Large and to all those who responded to our CFP for helping us gathering links to Digital Humanities related content from both the AHA and MLA annual meetings. If you have work that you would like included in this roundup, please fill out the form located on our CFP. […]
Opportunity: Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asian Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asian Digital Humanities and Social Sciences – CLA: Department of American Studies. Post-Doc in East Asian Studies:The John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University invite applications for a special post-doctoral fellowship for a recent Ph.D. in any field […]
CFP: Digital Frontiers 2013 (Sept. 19-21, 2013, University of North Texas)
Call for Proposals: Digital Frontiers 2013 (Sept. 19-21, 2013, University of North Texas) | laurie n. taylor. Call for Proposals: Digital Frontiers 2013 September 19-21, 2013 University of North Texas, Denton, TX The University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Co-Operative and UNT Libraries invite proposals for Digital Frontiers 2013, a conference that brings together the […]
Resource: Natural Earth
Natural Earth. Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
Resource: batch renaming archive photos
batch renaming archive photos « parezco y digo. As I’ve written about on a number of other occasions (here and here), I love using a digital camera for archival research. I’m an evangelist with graduate students, undergrads writing honors theses, and any of my colleagues who will listen for using digital cameras in the archive, something I’ve […]
Opportunity: Museums and Digital Humanities workshop
Digital Partnerships: Museums and Digital Humanities UCL Centre for Digital Humanities will be hosting a workshop focusing on how museums and universities can work together when it comes to digital innovation. A drinks reception will be hosted afterwards at the Grant Museum of Zoology nearby. It will explore digital innovation and the relationships between museums, universities […]
CFP: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013
Call for Proposals: JCDL 2013. JCDL 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, including (but not limited to) new forms […]
Editors’ Choice: Keeping the words in Topic Models
Following up on my previous topic modeling post, I want to talk about one thing humanists actually do with topic models once they build them, most of the time: chart the topics over time. Since I think that, although Topic Modeling can be very useful, there’s too little skepticism about the technique, I’m venturing to provide it […]