I’m chairing a panel at ASECS 2013– that’s the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to you! The official call is posted below. Please contact me if you have any questions, or to submit a proposal. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) April 4-7, 2013 Cleveland, OH CFP: “The History and Future of Data Visualization” (Digital Humanities Caucus) […]
So… I know that if you went by the activity on this site, all summer long it looked like THATCamp Theory was going to be, er, purely theoretical. But secretly a bunch of us have been THATCamping like the wind, as it were. THATCamp Theory will be held October 13-14, 2012 in Murray Hall at […]
This is part 2 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in Geoserver and Neatline. Check out part 1, which covers rectification in ArcMap. In the first part of this series, we brought a static image into ArcMap and converted it onto a georeferenced .tif file. In this article, […]
The Western Washington University Libraries seeks a Senior Developer for Digital Initiatives to lead the development, implementation and maintenance of applications which support digital initiatives. The successful candidate in this new key position will work with content specialists to test, evaluate, and develop web tools and applications.
The preliminary schedule of speakers and workshops at the KU Digital Humanities Forum, September 20-22, is now online. The event is free and open to the public; however, space is limited, especially for the Workshops and THATCamp. The Forum consists of three separate but related programs held over three days: * Day One (Thursday, September […]
“Technology has had most of the attention in digital preservation but it is the least of our concerns,” said Anne R. Kenney. That’s a bold declaration. But Kenney has earned the right to make it, based on her 25 years at Cornell University Library, conducting ground-breaking digital research, creating award-winning training resources and fostering national and […]
The following is a guest post from Meg Phillips, Electronic Records Lifecycle Coordinator for the National Archives and Records Administration. “What’s the bare minimum I can responsibly do with my electronic stuff?” was one of the central questions on the table at CurateCamp Processing. The unconference, focused onProcessing Data / Processing Collections, was a great way for a group […]
The twentieth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 1-4 July 2013 The rise of the Digital Humanities as an international, cross-disciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship presents exciting new challenges and opportunities. Perhaps one of the most exciting of these is the convergence of interest among textual editors, art historians, archaeologists, museum and library curatorial staff, government agencies, […]
Reporting to the Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA) Head of Digital Information Systems while working in close collaboration with Library IT, the Fortunoff Video Archives (FVA) Senior Archivist, the Director of Digitization Initiatives, the Digital Preservation Librarian, and other Library stakeholders, the Digital Initiatives Project Manager will have a dual responsibility: (1) to provide technical support […]
I am very pleased to announce the open source release of our SiteStory transactional web archiving solution. The solution is compatible with the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” framework and its current implementation can be used to archive Apache web servers.
