From the announcement: The final day of January 2017 brings with it the release of the long awaited version 2.5 of Omeka Classic. While the release includes a long list of minor changes and bug fixes (see the release notes), there are a number of key improvements that were requested by the user community Find […]
A week or so ago I travelled down from Dundee to York to do some structured light scanning of an artefact for a heritage company and while I was there I took the opportunity to catch up with the brilliant Tara Copplestone. If you’re up on your blogging archaeologists you may already know Tara as the ‘Gamingarchaeo’ […]
For most non-technical folks, “hacking” evokes the notion of using sophisticated technical skills to break through the security of a corporate or government system for illicit purposes. Of course, most folks who were engaged in cracking security systems weren’t necessarily in it for espionage and cruelty. In the 1990s, I grew up among teenage hackers […]
From the ad: Cornell University Library’s Information Technology group seeks an experienced senior software engineer to serve as Lead System Architect for the next generation system of arXiv.org – the premier open access platform serving scientists in physics, math, computer science, and other disciplines. As a member of the arXiv “next generation” team (arXiv-NG), the lead […]
The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its sixth annual conference, to be held at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, September 11-12, 2017. From the announcement: The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite proposals globally on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with […]
From the ad: I am currently the Data Lab’s sole member. And I’m recruiting…I’m looking for two members to join me in laying the foundation. This isn’t about getting in on the ground floor, it’s forming the floor itself. Every member of the team will take part in moulding this Lab over the next two years.While […]
From the announcement: The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative has just announced the its first sequence, Race, Space, and Place, which explores themes of African American labor, migration, and artistic expression, through a series of complementary Reading Groups (RG), Digital Humanities Incubator (DHI) and Digital Dialogues. A collaboration between MITH and the College […]
We humans have been mapping space for many centuries, and our maps have greatly improved over this time so that now they are very useful for navigating…Maps are for humans, but how do animals, which began navigating millions of years before parchment was invented, manage to find their way around? Do animal (and human) brains […]
The use of computational methods for ancient world geography are still very much dominated by the URI based gazetteer. These powerful and flexible reference lists, trail-blazed by projects such as the Pleaides and Pelagios projects, allow resources to be linked by common spatial referents they share. However, while computers love URIs unconditionally, the relationship they […]
Arizona State University is recruiting a Project Manager. From the ad: The IHR Nexus Lab is seeking qualified candidates for the position of full time Project Manager. This position will oversee not only internal projects, but will also be 50% dedicated to project management of the new HASTAC-ASU partnership, including maintenance of the Drupal 5 […]
