Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “Can I Use This?” How Museum and Library Image Policies Undermine Education

Is the discipline of art history (together with museums and libraries) squandering the digital revolution? We’re not the only ones with this concern. Just last week James Cuno wrote a short article, “How Art History is Failing the Internet” and WIlliam Noeltweeted, “Calling on all other great libraries; follow @britishlibrary‘s example. Free your images!” …Although eight years have passed […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Getting to the Stuff: Digital Cultural Heritage Collections, Absence, and Memory

This is the rough script of my Digital Dialog given at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. Keynote slides and a recording of my talk are available on the Digital Dialogues site, and the slides are available on SlideShare. Many thanks go to my wonderful hosts at MITH for inviting across the river […]

News, Resources

Resource: How to License Research Data

This guide will help you decide how to apply a licence to your research data, and which licence would be most suitable. It should provide you with an awareness of why licensing data is important, the impact licences have on future research, and the potential pitfalls to avoid.

News, Resources

Resource: Digital_Humanities book now available for free download

Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, “What is digital humanities?,” it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry–including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and […]

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Resource: D3.js – Data-Driven Documents

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Public History in the Digital Age

The Society for History in the Federal Government and Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region announce a joint conference.The program committee invites participants to broadly interpret the conference theme, “Public History in the Digital Age.” Topics might include the historiography of oral history practice and theory; the impact of technology on the practice and sharing […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: DPLA Audience & Participation Workshop and Hackfest at the Center for History and New Media

On December 6, 2012, the Digital Public Library of America will have two concurrent and interwoven events at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The Audience and Participation workstream will be holding a meeting that will be livestreamed, and next door those interested in fleshing out what might be done with the DPLA […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Council on Library and Information Resources

Since CLIR accepts new proposals to host fellows from interested institutions throughout the year, the list below will change frequently. Not all 2013 position descriptions will be available by the December 31, 2012 application deadline. All interested applicants with expertise in any discipline are encouraged to apply, regardless of whether a suitable position description is […]

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Job: Tenure-Track Faculty, MIT Media Lab

The Media Lab is an antidisciplinary research organization focusing on the invention of new media technologies that radically improve the ways people live, learn, work, and play. Candidates should have a record of original thinking, a willingness to take risks, a desire to look beyond traditional disciplines, and a commitment to making a difference in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Tenure Track position, Media Circulation and Convergence, Northwestern U.

The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor working on the interface and interpenetration of different media, communication and cultural technologies, and media circulation studies.   We are particularly interested in candidates who might affiliate with the University’s new initiative in Asian languages and cultures.