News, Resources

Resource: Folger Digital Texts: Shakespeare’s Plays, Cutting-Edge Code: A Powerful Research Tool for Scholars

The Folger is delighted to announce the launch of Folger Digital Texts. These are reliable, expertly edited, and free digital Shakespeare texts for use by researchers. Starting from the Folger Editions of Shakespeare’s works edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine,Folger Digital Texts uses XML to create a highly articulate indexing system. Researchers can read the plays […]

News, Resources

Resource: The player: a new way of viewing digital collections at Wellcome Library

Since 2010, the Wellcome Library has been digitising a significant amount of material related to the history of genetics. As part of this project, we’ve been working with Digirati, our software partners, to develop a tool to display all of our digitised content, including cover-to-cover books, archives, works of art, videos and audio. The outcome of […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Oxford Internet Institute – 4 New positions

We are currently recruiting for the following 4 new positions: Researcher Research Fellow Research Fellow Researcher Please see our Visitor Programme page for information about our Visitor Programme, including Visiting Fellowships and Associateships, and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Oxford Internet Institute – People – New positions.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The moment of digital art history?

2012 has proven to be a significant year as art history continues its transition into the sphere of the digital humanities. The following post aims to provide a summary of discussions around “digital art history”, which at present describes a mode of practise without a fully articulated definition. This summary will also extend beyond the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians” Report from Ithaka S+R

This study, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, uncovers the needs of today’s historians and provides guidance for how research support providers can better serve them. We explore areas such as content discovery, information management, scholarly analysis, collaboration, library use, the writing process, professional interactions, and publication, among others. Our interviews of faculty […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: CUNY Graduate Center Digital Fellows Site Launched

GC Digital Fellows. The CUNY GC Digital Fellows site has launched The GC Digital Fellows work with Graduate Center faculty members on digital scholarly projects, design websites for special initiatives, receive skills training workshops, and, more broadly, explore new ways for Graduate Center faculty, students, and staff to share their academic work through new technological […]

News, Resources

Resource: How to Download Multiple Records using Python

Thoughts on Public & Digital History by Adam Crymble: How to Download Multiple Records using Python. I’m pleased to announce my latest endeavour to teach historians how to program computers in aid of their research has been published and is freely available on the Programming Historian 2 website. Full Lesson: Downloading Multiple Records Using Query Strings The […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science

CFP: “Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science” « The British Modernities Group. We invite paper, poster, or panel proposals that consider perspectives on media, literature, and information science related but certainly not limited to the following: Text mining, big data, and digital archives Computer programming Digital culture and internet studies New media and gaming […]