The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released “Fact Sheet: Big Data Across the Federal Government.” Here’s an excerpt: Below are highlights of ongoing Federal government programs that address the challenges of, and tap the opportunities afforded by, the big data revolution to advance agency missions and further scientific discovery and innovation. […]
Test Site for Juxta Commons – Visualization Module Juxta Commons will be a free online work space where you will be able to compare multiple witnesses to a single textual work, privately store your collations, and share visualizations of your work with anyone on the web. Juxta Commons will bring the core functionality of Juxta to the […]
The Digital Technologies Development Librarian provides technical leadership and hands-on programming expertise for a portfolio of digital library projects. In close collaboration with technical and non-technical partners across the Libraries, she or he identifies emerging technologies that have potential for new and improved library services. Working both independently and in team settings, the incumbent develops […]
I’m having an interesting discussion with Lisa Rhody about the significance of topic modeling at different scales that I’d like to follow up with some examples. I’ve been doing topic modeling on collections of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century volumes, using volumes themselves as the “documents” being modeled. Lisa has been pursuing topic modeling on a collection of poems, using individual […]
NEH Funding Opportunity: Research and Development in Digital Preservation and Access « The Signal: Digital Preservation. We here at NDIIPP are always on the lookout for opportunities to help the digital preservation community improve their work. In this respect, I was excited to see the announcement for the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access […]
Lev Manovich » Blog Archive » new article: “Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections”. Lev Manovich. Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections. Presents the theory and the techniques of media visualization used in our lab, with the analysis of the examples.
Call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2014 | Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Digital Humanities (DH) is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (AHDO), whose constituent organisations are the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Society for […]
Indiana University-Data to Insight Center (Pervasive Technology Institute)/University Libraries — Council on Library and Information Resources. The Indiana University (IU) Data to Insight Center, a part of the IU Pervasive Technology Institute and the IU University Libraries, is offering a two-year CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellowship. The Fellow will be based organizationally within the Data to […]
Employment: Project Manager, EU Digital Infrastructure, TCD | FMRSI. Closing date: 19th April 2012 Project Officer position at Trinity College Dublin for EU digital infrastructure The Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, is recruiting a full time project manager to assist in the coordination of the 48-month Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archival Infrastructure (CENDARI) project. […]
One of the striking features of computation is the extent to which forms of pattern matching are required in computer processing. Pattern recognition can be described as a means of identifying repeated shapes or structures which are features of a system under investigation. Whilst we tend to think of patterns as visual, of course they […]
