The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange is imagining a collaborative, multi-institutional approach to supporting digital scholarship efforts. Their hope is that you would take a few moments to review what we’ve posted there. You can vote up and comment on the ideas that you like the best. Read full CFP here.
Below is a draft of an essay I am contributing to a forthcoming book titled A Companion to Digital History. I have permission to share drafts on my personal website, so I thought it would be good to get this up and out there 1) for folks to be able to read it and 2) to see if I could […]
As we wrap up Fall 2015 and look to the New Year, we’re issuing another call for volunteers to help us choose the pieces that we feature on Digital Humanities Now. Editors-at-Large can see all the work and announcements published each week on the more than 475 websites that Digital Humanities Now follows. Volunteering a […]
We invite members of the NYC DH community to participate in the NYC DH Workshop Week—like Restaurant Week for DH! At the link below, you may sign up to teach a workshop on a topic of your choice during the week of February 8-12 (except on 2/9, which is the day of the general meeting). Read full CFP here.
Sam Houston State University is looking for an assistant professor (Digital Resources Librarian). From the ad: Experience with creation and/or management of digital objects in various formats. Knowledge of and ability to use computer information technologies, especially, digital image technologies, effectively. Should be familiar with metadata standards. Experience with web page development and design. See […]
The Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress houses over 225 manuscripts; most of them in Hebrew but with a fair sampling of manuscripts also written in cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish. It is a highly diverse collection, dating from the 11th to early 20th centuries and drawn from Jewish communities throughout […]
A series of factors influenced the unfolding of the labor movement. The number of members in each organization translated into the organization’s strength and influence. This visualization shows the number of members in each type of labor organization. The “Writers and Journalists” and the “Socialist Party,” for example, had the most members. Given the strength of […]
Twice a year I indulge my meta-disciplinary sweet tooth: once to look at who’s submitting what to ADHO’s annual digital humanities conference, and once to look at which pieces get accepted (see the rest of the series). This post presents my first look at DH2016 conference submissions, the data for which I scraped from ConfTool during the open peer […]
From the ad: The Darrell W. Krueger Library at Winona State University seeks an energetic, proactive, knowledgeable, and innovative person for the tenure track position of Web and Digital Services Librarian. Read full ad here.
Hi everyone, I would like to introduce the project I am developing now at Michigan State Univeristy. I am currently working collaboratively with Andrew Barsom, a fellow doctoral student in the Department of History at MSU, on the Baptismal Record Database for Slave Societies (BARDSS) project. This online database, which is part of MSU’s Slave […]
