Resource: WorkTop
WorkTop was designed to enhance the ability of students (and scholars at all levels) to more efficiently perform fundamental scholarly tasks while at the same time providing new opportunities for collaborative learning.
Author: Colleen Nugent
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Resource: The Homer Multitext HTML CTS Kit
Announcing for download a package of html, javascript, and css that allows embedding into an html page passages of text served by a Canonical Text Services implementation, by inserting a CTS-URN into a <blockquote></blockquote> element, with a @class attribute “cts-text.” The Homer Multitext seeks to present the textual transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey in […]
Resource: Fun Da Mentals: How to read and write electronic literature
Electronic literature uses links, images, sound, navigation, as well as text to convey meaning. Electronic literature is ergodic, and thus it is up to the reader to piece together the materials as the reader goes through the work. Elit 101explains how these elements work to convey meaning and provides examples and exercises for each element.
Resource: New Portal for The European Library
The European Library recently launched its new portal at the LIBER Annual Conference in Tartu. The portal, designed to meet the specific needs of researchers in the digital humanities and social sciences, puts a critical mass of bibliographic records, digital objects and full-text materials at the fingertips of digital humanities and social sciences researchers. It […]
CFP: Digital Memories (March, 2013: Lisbon, Portugal)
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environments, and how the systems used for production influence the way the users perceive […]
CFP: Publicity and the Public Sphere (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Digital Humanities Caucus)
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Digital Humanities Caucus is seeking panelists for a 2013 conference session on digital humanities, publicity, and the public sphere.
Editors’ Choice: The Musical Geography of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
This project maps the spaces where music was played or sung in Auschwitz- Main Camp and Auschwitz- Birkenau. You can explore these interactive maps and listen to clips of the songs which were heard there. Music is not typically associated with the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, but, as these maps display, there was a […]
CFP: SCI Survey on Career Prep in Humanities Graduate Programs
We are pleased to invite you to participate in a survey assessing career preparation provided by humanities graduate programs. It will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete the questionnaire. via QuestionPro Survey – Career Prep in Humanities Graduate Programs.
CFP: Data Wrangling Handbook Sprints, July 18th in Portland! July 19th everywhere!
We’re taking the Data Wrangling Handbook on the road! How You Can Help There are (at least!) three different ways for you to help with the handbook: Author a section – sign up to help write a section of the Data Wrangling Handbook. You can also add additional sections to the end of the document. […]
Resource: Bamboo DiRT Public Release
Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software. via Bamboo DiRT.