In recent months we’ve been working on a couple of projects here in the Lab that are making use of the Extracted Features data set from HathiTrust. This is a fantastic resource, and I owe a huge debt of gratitude to everyone at HTRC for putting it together and maintaining it. The extracted features are essentially […]
From the job ad: The Experimental Humanities (EH) initiative at Bard College seeks a Digital Projects Coordinator to join its ranks beginning as soon as possible. EH is Bard’s liberal arts-driven answer to the Digital Humanities. It emphasizes both “new” media technologies and the reconsideration of “old” media in the study of what it means […]
From the job ad: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks a Web Developer whose primary responsibility will be maintaining and developing ADHO’s Drupal and WordPress content management systems. Source: Call for Web Developer | ADHO
Digitized archival collections are going nowhere. Any historian conversant with archival debates will be aware of this. The pressure for “more product less process” and the backlogs in many repositories combined with the neo-liberal economy of higher education in which access for consumers often trumps all other concerns means that digitizing documents and putting them […]
There should be no need to mention in a blog about early American history that the digital turn is, perhaps, a fait accompli. However, over the past couple of years more and more articles have called into question the ways in which access to digital archives and digitized sources has changed both the questions historians […]
From the ad: Columbia University Libraries seeks a collegial, collaborative, and creative Digital Humanities Developer to join our Libraries IT staff. The Digital Humanities Developer will provide technology support for digital humanities-focused projects by evaluating, implementing and managing relevant platforms and applications; the Developer will also analyze, transform and/or convert existing humanities-related data sets for […]
San Diego State University seeks a Digital Humanist at the rank of assistant or associate professor who can lead and develop our Area of Excellence in “Digital Humanities and Global Diversity” to pursue and foster intersectional, interdisciplinary, collaborative research, and teaching. Source: See full post here.
From the job listing: Design and coordinate small- and large-scale digital scholarship projects with an emphasis on publishing in a variety of open access platforms. Collaborate with staff, faculty, librarians, students, and other researchers in project conceptualization, development, deployment, evaluation, and sustainability. Source: See full post.
This is an update on SherlockNet, our project to use machine learning and other computational techniques to dramatically increase the discoverability of the British Library’s Flickr images dataset. Below is some of our progress on tagging, captioning, and the web interface. When we started this project, our goal was to classify every single image in […]
From the CFP: At next year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Amy Gillette and I are co-chairing a session on digital reconstructions of architectural spaces from the Italian peninsula, dating between the 4th-15th centuries CE. Please consider submitting! Find out more here.
