News, Resources

Resource: Annotate Charts using ChartAccent

From the Post: Some say annotation is the most important layer for charts meant for public consumption. It directs readers where to look and what’s important. But the process is not always straightforward. ChartAccent is an application slash research project that aims to make annotation easier. Plug in some data, make a chart, and do […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Internet Archive Files Amicus Brief in Support of Fair Use and Innovation in Libraries

From the announcement: Today marks the beginning of Fair Use Week, which celebrates the importance of fair use for libraries, students, teachers, journalists, creators, and the public. Last week, the Internet Archive joined the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries on a friend of the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Encoding vs. Decoding

What makes visualization powerful is our ability to go beyond the mere decoding of values from a chart. That makes it interesting, but it also makes it complicated. So far, we have focused our understanding largely on the encoding side of visualization. We need to learn much more about the complex and powerful decoding side. […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: DH Awards 2016 Voting

From the post: Please vote for the following resources from 2016 in the DH Awards 2016. 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/dhawards2016/faqs2016/ for more information. We are sorry if […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Women’s History in the Digital World

From the CFP: The Women’s History in the Digital World conference brings together historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists and more to present on their work, network and collaborate on current and future projects at the intersection of women’s history and digital scholarship. If you would like to propose a paper reflecting on your current research, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Humanities

The first day of Alan Liu’s Introduction to the Digital Humanities seminar opens with a provocation. At one end of the projection screen is the word DIGITAL and at the other HUMAN. Within the space they circumscribe, we organize and re-organize familiar terms from media studies: media, communication, information, and technology. What happens to these terms when they are […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Japanese Language Text Mining

Emory University is accepting applications for an interdisciplinary workshop–Japanese Language Text Mining: Digital Methods for Japanese Studies. From the CFP: The workshop will bring together researchers working across the fields of computational text analysis and Japanese Studies. We welcome applicants from both fields. Applications from research pairs or teams (combining different specialties) are encouraged. Faculty, professionals, and Ph.D. students […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Taxonomist, Career Opportunities at APA

From the ad: The Taxonomist is responsible for the ongoing development, revision, and maintenance of APA’s controlled vocabulary/taxonomy (Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms), which is used primarily to index APA’s electronic research databases…The Taxonomist is responsible for initiating and executing plans for semantic content enrichment processes to support continuous improvement of existing products, product line […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: ILiADS 2017

From the ad: The ILiADS Planning Committees welcome proposals from project teams who would like to join us for ILiADS 2017! At ILiADS, ideas grow through collaborative, iterative processes. During this week of digital immersion, teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students are invited to build upon established digital pedagogy or scholarship […]