Michael Widner, Learn to Code; Learn Code Culture, February 16, 2012 Along with the explicit philosophical and cultural aspects of coding—e.g., open source, geek culture, hacking, hacktivism, black hat vs. white hat, etc.—code itself is a form of writing with a dual audience: machines and other coders (including one’s future self). Others may want to […]
The Florida State University Libraries seeks a Digital Archivist to develop, implement, and provide leadership for digital initiatives involving Special Collections materials and services. The Digital Archivist will be creative, dynamic, and articulate and be skilled in digitization, metadata, project and website management, and digital preservation. The Digital Archivist will report to the Associate Dean […]
The inaugural Digital Humanities Australasia conference is shaping-up to be a very exciting event. There are a range of excellent international speakers and all the workshops preceding the conference are now confirmed. The registration for the conference is now open. Please register for DHA2012 here: http://aa-dh.org/conference-2/
The interim report summarizes “our interviews with research support professionals who support the field of history.”
The second annual Theorizing the Web conference seeks to assemble a multi-disciplinary group of scholars interested in exploring how the Web both influences and is influenced by the social. Technology has always been social and society has always been technological. This fact has become increasingly difficult to ignore following the recent explosion of collaborative and […]
“Game changing” is a term we hear a lot in digital humanities. I have used it myself. But try, as I was asked to do for a recent talk at Brown University’s Ancient Religion, Modern Technology workshop, to name a list of truly game-changing developments wrought by digital humanities. I come up short. Struggling with this problem, […]
ETD 2012 – Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters, Workshops. 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations Lima, Peru, September 12, 13 and 14 First Announcement Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Workshops On behalf of The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and the […]
JISC Digitisation Programme » New JISC funding opportunties. JISC has issued 5 Invitations to Tender for Digital Infrastructure Reports. Bidders must have knowledge of the topic area and must be experienced in producing high quality reports. These are open Invitations to Tender and anyone may bid. 5 Invitations to Tender for Reports on: • Advantages […]
By Daniel Chamberlain Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research
You Asked For It: Four Exciting New Viewshare Features « The Signal: Digital Preservation. Last week we quietly launched several significant improvements to Viewshare, our free and open platform for cultural heritage organizations to create interfaces to digital collections. There are a ton of major and small additions to the software, but I wanted to […]
