Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Text-Mining and Visualization Roundup

Editors’ Note: There were a number of recent posts discussing the use of text-mining and visualizations in humanities research. A few, offering a variety of perspectives, are presented below. Lev Manovich, the meaning of statistics and digital humanities  “Given that production of summaries is the key characteristics of human culture, I think that such traditional summaries […]

News, Resources

Resource: E-Book Media and Communications Toolkit from ALA

To assist libraries in informing the public about e-book lending practices, the American Library Association (ALA) released today the “ALA E-book Media & Communications Toolkit,” a set of materials that will support librarians in taking action in their communities. E-Book Media and Communications Toolkit | Transforming Libraries.

News, Resources

Resource: Using Crowdcrafting for transcribing cultural works, from OpenGLAM

Crowdcrafting is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It is a joint effort between theOpen Knowledge Foundation and Citizen Cyberscience Centre, It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. Crowdcrafting is there to help researchers, civic hackers […]

News, Reports

Report: Final Report of TEXTUS Project: An Open-Source Platform To Help With Reuse Cultural Heritage Materials

The overall goal of TEXTUS is to provide an open-source platform through which scholars and students are able to re-use the vast and expanding amount of digitised cultural heritage material now available through portals such as the Internet Archive, Wikisource and Project Gutenberg. The aim is to enable scholarly communities to easily establish their own […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Re:Humanities, April 2013

Re:Humanities 2013 explores various aspects of multimodal storytelling and argument. We seek undergraduates who are exploring cross-platform approaches to course projects, digital scholarship, and student collaborations. DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday, December 7th, 2012 (Midnight GMT) Re:Humanities CFP Deadline EXTENDED to Dec. 7. | Tri-Co Digital Humanities.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Computer Music Journal special issue on Live Coding

We are excited to announce a call for full length papers for a special issue of Computer Music Journal, with a deadline of 21st January 2013, for publication in Spring of the following year. The issue will be guest edited by Alex McLean, Julian Rohrhuber and Nick Collins, and will address themes surrounding live coding […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Seeking Comments on NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation: Release Candidate One

The goal of this document is to provide a basic tool for helping organizations manage and mitigate digital preservation risks. This document does not deal with broader issues related to collection development practices, critical policy framework decisions, general issues involving staffing or particular workflows or life cycle issues. Those are all critical, and in many […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Five College Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities

With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Five Colleges, Incorporated invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities beginning in the academic year 2013-14.  The position will be based at one of the consortium’s associated institutions (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst).