MATRIX is pleased to announce the launch of the Oral History in the Digital Age (OHDA) website at ohda.matrix.msu.edu. The website features numerous essays, articles, and videos about best practices in collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital oral histories. The OHDA project represents a partnership between MATRIX, the Michigan State University Museum, the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and […]
Research Developer (Art of Making; Making of Charlemagne’s Europe; Breaking of Britain) Research Developer (Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI)) Research Developer The post is located in the Department of Digital Humanities. The Department is an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities, and in […]
Last Monday, I got to attend Edward Tufte’s one-day course. I was looking forward to a day of interesting examples, ideas, and discussions, but was disappointed by the amount of rambling and largely historical examples, with little connection to real, current visualization (or presentation) work. The Setting The course took place in the large ballroom […]
Please consider contributing to an exciting 4Humanities campaign called “Humanities, Plain and Simple,”. This is a comprehensive and targeted project that calls out to individuals and groups inside and outside of academia to write statements, create short videos or audio recordings, produce eloquent photographs or drawings as to why the Humanities matter. How has humanities-based […]
Registration is now open here for THATCamp Feminisms 2013 held at Scripps College in Claremont, Califormia March 15-17.
OeRC and the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London jointly held an invited workshop on 25 July 2012 on Digital Research Resources in the Arts and Humanities. The workshop was organized by David Robey and Andrew Prescott and took place at King’s. It was supported by the AHRC and JISC. This event reviewed […]
I was asked by the excellent Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to speak to her PLP class about MOOCs, and, while we had what i thought was an excellent forty minute chat, there were tons of comments that i never had the chance to address. As i look over the questions they asked, I see that in answering […]
[I’m cross-posting this from the Digital Summer Institute’s blog at Oxy. This post is meant to ignite some conversations on alternative argumentation from the perspective of sound.] To forward the theme of digital and media fluency for this year’s DSI, I’d like to start a conversation about the role of audio and sound in multimedia scholarship. There […]
The TEI has proven to be one of the great success stories in the Digital Humanities. It has emerged as the de facto standard for online critical scholarly editions as well as a format that promotes interoperability and exchange. This success has also prompted a new direction in TEI research: the development of infrastructure to […]
CURATEcamp Processing 2012 was held the day after the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) sponsored Digital Preservation annual meeting. The unconference was framed by this idea: Processing means different things to an archivist and a software developer. To the former, processing is about taking custody of collections, preserving context, and providing arrangement, […]
