Announcements, News

Announcement: CUNY Team Launches Open Digital Platform for Learning and Collaboration

From the announcement: The Commons In A Box team, based at The Graduate Center, CUNY (GC), has partnered with the OpenLab at New York City College of Technology, CUNY (City Tech) to create Commons In A Box OpenLab (CBOX OpenLab), a free software platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration. Today’s public release of CBOX OpenLab is the culmination of a two-year project, Learning in […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: 2019 Code4Lib Diversity Scholarships

About the funding: As part of Code4Lib’s ongoing commitment to reducing economic barriers that prevent participation for underrepresented groups and achieving a balanced representation of the human experience, we are pleased to announce that we are now seeking applicants for our 2019 Diversity Scholarship program http://2019.code4lib.org/general-info/scholarships! The Code4Lib Scholarship Committee hopes to award 15 Diversity […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Uncanny Valley and the Ghost in the Machine – a discussion of analogies for thinking about digitized medieval manuscripts

This is a version of a paper I presented at the University of Kansas Digital Humanities Seminar, Co-Sponsored with the Hall Center for the Humanities on September 17, 2018. … So this is great. We’re doing very important work making data about manuscripts available to the world, in ways that make it easy to reuse them, […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: ERA Chair – Cultural Data Analytics, Tallinn University

From the ad: Tallinn University (TLU) seeks an internationally recognized leader in digital humanities to fill the ERA Chair in Cultural Data Analytics… ERA Chair position is planned for a Leading Researcher (R4) in order to complement Tallinn University (TLU) existing research expertise in digital culture studies and data analytics. The candidate is expected to […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto

From the announcement: On October 15, 2018, Digital Pedagogy Lab opened registration for a new event in 2019: Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto. The Lab in Toronto will take place March 18-20, and will feature six courses, brand new workshops, great food, and a uniquely intimate environment that will feature smaller cohorts, cozier spaces, and close […]

News, Resources

Resource: Ranke.2 – Source Criticism in the Digital Age

About the resource: The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History C2DH is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Luxembourg. It serves as a national platform for debating topical issues in contemporary Luxembourgish history and for advancing the development and training of digital literacy among students and researchers at the University of Luxembourg. […]

News, Reports

Report: Twitter Use at #WHA2018

From the report: For the past few years following the Western History Association’s annual meeting I’ve been collecting Twitter analytics on users that tweet with the conference hashtag. We just wrapped up #wha2018 and it’s time to see what’s in the data. We spent the week in San Antonio, which, strangly enough, was colder than […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Learning Technologies and Digital Humanities Associate Director, UVA

From the ad: The Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC) is hiring a Learning Technologies and Digital Humanities Associate Director. The Contemplative Science Center’s mission is to explore via teaching, research, and engagement diverse forms of learning and whole student education which integrate the academic and the personal. A key component of this work concerns digital technology […]