From “Latest Success Story! Medieval Handwriting and Handwritten Text Recognition”: Two partners in the READ project network have now successfully trained a new model to recognise Gothic handwriting! The State Archives of Zurich (READ project partner) and the University of Zurich (READ project Memorandum of Understanding partner) have collaborated on the automatic recognition of a collection of […]
A funny thing happened on the way to academic integrity. Plagiarism detection software (PDS), like Turnitin, has seized control of student intellectual property. While students who use Turnitin are discouraged from copying other work, the company itself can strip mine and sell student work for profit. For this bait-and-switch to succeed, Turnitin relies upon the […]
The book is now whole! I’m going to be spending this weekend working through revisions to the last section based on all of the great comments I’ve been getting, but I’m also now excited to share both the introduction and the conclusion. Introduction: Beyond Digital Hype and Digital Anxiety Conclusions: Tools for Looking Forward If […]
If we can’t see the ethical stakes (+ power relations) in digital archives we are going to do violence. Do better. Born of frustration and still very much a work in progress (gotta get the kids to school)…I have much more to include and I welcome your suggestions via twitter @profwernimont #justDigitalArchives Readings Archives So […]
The Director of Data Education will establish a program to: engage faculty and students in incorporating statistical and computational data analysis methods (data science) into the undergraduate curriculum and scholarship; provide guidance for students in finding data sets as well as teaching students how to clean and manipulate data for use in analytical and statistical […]
The successful candidate for this position will play a key role in the video asset management lifecycle of content created and/or stored in the Martin Digital Media Center. This position is responsible for the ingest workflow of incoming media materials including storage and retrieval from a storage area network, LTO tape library and cloud-based system […]
In what purport to be responses or rebuttals to critiques I and others have offered of Digital Humanities (DH), my argument is routinely misrepresented in a fundamental way. I am almost always said to oppose the use of digital technology in the humanities. This happens despite the fact that I and those I have worked […]
We are looking for candidates with expertise on computational science, linguistics and history/cultural heritage. The three successful candidates will be members of a research community that already includes, for example, Academy of Finland’s project on “Computational History and the Transformation of Public Discourse”, 2015-2019. The data that the research community is using includes various historical […]
Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Technology Strategy and Data Services, the Digital Curation Coordinator will work in close collaboration with the AUL, the Assistant Director for Digital Library and Preservation Strategy, the Director of Scholarly Communication, and other library stakeholders to provide programmatic leadership pertaining to a variety of digital library services including […]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library invites applications for the position of Digital Scholarship Specialist in the Digital Research Services department. We are seeking a creative and collaborative individual to provide technical support for digital scholarship projects and to guide the selection, enhancement or creation of new tools and workflows to support […]
