This is the text of a short ‘provocation’ I presented at an event called Cityscapes: Past, Present and Future. The event took place at Senate House on the 1st of June 2016, and marked the launch of Cities@SAS – an initiative to create a cross-disciplinary dialogue about cities between the institutes of the School of Advanced […]
So, you might guess by this image (from @LegoAcademics!) that I’m something of a linked open data pessimist. I’ve just come off of a dissertation that relied for half of its data on a large RDF museum database that was open, rich in complex and nuanced historical information, and rigorously structured… but lacked any real […]
From the posting: Principal duties: Manage born digital collections: working with library and campus partners to ingest, preserve, describe and make available archival materials in digital form; identifying digital media to be added to the Archives’ collections; identifying/testing software to help with born digital materials; overseeing the Archive’s Archive-It site…Read More Source
From the posting: The Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communications will provide leadership and coordinate scholarly communication activities for Duke University. Working with library colleagues, s/he will offer training and consultative services for the university community about intellectual property issues and their impact on the nature and conduct of scholarly inquiry and instruction. S/he will […]
From the post: I’ve been working and writing a lot lately about using the web annotation tool hypothes.is for public scholarship. It has a lot of cool uses ― not only the collaborative annotation of individual web pages, but also the creation of a public research notebook, and the possibility of linking hypothes.is with other […]
This is the first of a series of blog post applying text mining and other DH techniques to the evolving student protest movement demanding racial equality. What can DH techniques tell use about student demands and administration responses? Are faculty and students talking to each other or at each other? This project is a collaborative […]
I came to the Doing Sport History in the Digital Present workshop last week as an American Studies scholar and may have left a sport historian. This proclamation only becomes relevant in the context of the aims of the DSH workshop, in which 15 participants from a variety of scholarly approaches and interests came together at Georgia […]
From the post: I’m proud to introduce macroetym, a command-line tool for macro-etymological textual analysis, which is now available for download with the Python package manager, pip. It’s a complete rewrite of The Macro-Etymological Analyzer, the web tool for macro-etymological analysis I wrote a few years ago, first described in this post, and presented at […]
From the CFP: This edited volume seeks to shift national conversations about the “crisis” in the arts and humanities to one that bespeaks of “rise” and “renaissance.” Toward this goal, writers are encouraged to portrait thinkers and doers of our time (in the US)—individuals, groups, organizations, businesses, and fields not traditionally associated with the arts […]
Caution: pot stirring ahead I’m coming up on my first sabbatical. It’s been six years since I first came to Carleton – terrified – to interview for a position in the history department, in this thing, ‘digital humanities’. The previous eight years had been hard, hustling for contracts, short term jobs, precarious jobs, jobs that […]
