A friend of mine, Lindsay Bontoft, recently started working at the Museum of Inuit Art (MIA). It is a very small museum in Toronto, Canada with three full-time and one part-time staff as well as an Executive Director. Yet they have managed what many larger museums have not – a wide array of both online and onsite […]
Turning everything into data, and using algorithms to process is analyze it has a number of major consequences for what it means to know something. It creates new strategies which together make up software epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy which asks questions such as what is knowledge, how it can acquired, and to what […]
NEH Calls for Comments on Digital Projects for the Public Grant Program Guidelines | National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH seeks comments to help the agency assess how well these guidelines for a new funding opportunity accomplish the following goals: encourage the integration of new digital technologies in traditional humanities spaces; foster the development of […]
We are looking for new and existing pieces on methods and standards for evaluating digital humanities scholarship to include in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities. Our goal is to bring together resources from a variety of sources to help the producers and evaluators of digital humanities scholarship better frame, discuss, and […]
Computer Scientist: “You can’t do that with Topic Modeling.” Humanist: “No, I can because I’m not a scientist. We have this thing called Hermeneutics.” Computer Scientist: “…” Humanist: “No really, we get to do what we want, we read texts against each other, and then there is this hermeneutic circle grounded in intersubjectivity.” Computer Scientist: “Ok, but you still […]
The Writing Studies Tree (WST,writingstudiestree.org) is an online, open-access, crowdsourced database of scholarly relationships within writing studies, composition/rhetoric and related academic fields. Created by Graduate Center students in 2011-2012, the WST combines a fixed data structure with open editing privileges to rapidly aggregate the work of thousands of individuals’ small data entry efforts into scalable […]
The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. The first report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education: Assessment for learning Badges to accredit learning Learning analytics MOOCs […]
**Job purpose:** To contribute to the development and implementation of the Library’s Digital Scholarship Strategy. To support curators and other professionals in the integration of digital collections and digital tools into routine curatorial functions. To lead the project management of complex digital or digitisation projects, working closely with curators in discipline areas. To train and […]
NINES is happy to announce the integration of a new resource: Britain, Represention, And Nineteenth-Century History (BRANCH), edited by Dino Franco Felluga. The site provides users with a free, expansive, searchable, reliable, peer-reviewed, copy-edited, easy-to-use overview of the period 1775-1925. And thanks to its site structure, BRANCH offers users an innovative approach to history itself, […]
The Duke University Divinity School Library is recruiting a Digitization and Technology Librarian. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: To capture and preserve both the original intellectual capital and resources produced or licensed/purchased by the Duke Divinity School in digital format and oversee the dissemination of these digital holdings.
