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Job: Digital Scholarship Research Developer, Stanford

From the ad: The Stanford University Libraries’ Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR) is seeking a full-time Digital Scholarship Research Developer to build sophisticated, sustainable, and generalizable projects and platforms in order to support interdisciplinary research in the computational social sciences and digital humanities at Stanford. Regular tasks will include analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, modifying, […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: ARIADNEplus Project

From the announcement: The ARIADNEplus project is the extension of the previous ARIADNE Integrating Activity, which successfully integrated archaeological data infrastructures in Europe, indexing in its registry about 2.000.000 datasets (ARIADNE portal). ARIADNEplus will build on the ARIADNE results, extending and supporting the research community that the previous project created and further developing the relationships […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: History as Data Science Workshop

About the workshop: The goal of this workshop is to offer a very practical introduction to the many other methods of using large digitized archives only possible with direct access to the data. Participants will learn how to organize and analyze textual data and get an overview of advances in natural language processing and machine […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Multimodal Design & Social Advocacy Blog Carnival

From the CFP: In this Blog Carnival, we hope to spark an interdisciplinary conversation surrounding the key role of multimodal design in fostering social advocacy within and across the fields of digital rhetoric, multimodal composition, and technical communication. We understand design as a capacious term applicable to the design of multimodal composition projects, course syllabi […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What Can the Humanities Teach Big Data?

Like many Americans, I have a love-hate relationship with technology: I inwardly cringe when my preschooler clamors for screen-time with our iPad instead of storytime with a book. Our municipalities, our government, our insurers, and even the vendors of books are awash with technology as well. At a recent hackathon, the expert from the local transit authority […]

By: Jo Guldi
Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Frictionless Data Tool Fund

About the funding: The Frictionless Data Tool Fund, supported by the Sloan Foundation, is providing a number of mini-grants of $5,000 to support individuals or organisations in developing an open tool for reproducible science or research built using the Frictionless Data specifications and software. We welcome submissions of interest from 15th Feb 2019 until 30th […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: DH Awards 2018 Voting

From the CFParticipation: Please vote for the following resources from 2018 in the DH Awards 2018. Have a look over the resources in each category and then fill out the form linked to at the bottom of the page in order to vote. For frequently asked questions please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2018/faqs/ for more information. We are sorry if […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: When Rivers Were Trails

From the announcement: When Rivers Were Trails is an educational 2D adventure game which follows an Anishinaabeg in the 1890’s who is displaced from Fond du Lac in Minnesota to California due to the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities. Developed in collaboration with the Indian Land Tenure Foundation and Michigan State University’s Games […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Virtual Reality App that Reconstructs Ancient Rome May Have Exploited Its Developers

The virtual reality tour of Rome at the heart of Rome Reborn started as a digital humanities project collaboratively developed by dozens of artists, classicists, archaeologists, and 3D modelers. Even those visiting the ruins of the Roman Forum within the city of Rome today find it hard to envision the sheer magnitude of the marble, brick, and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoc Research Associate in Digital Humanities, UIC

From the ad: The Postdoctoral Research Associate will be hired in conjunction with the Digital Humanities Initiative, a new collaboration between the Institute for the Humanities and the Main Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  This is a one-year position, with an appointment from 16 August 2019 to 15 August 2020, designed to […]