CFPs & Conferences, News

CfP: Web Science 2016 Conference

The Web Science 2016 conference seeks papers for the field of Web Science. “The Web Science 2016 conference will take place in Hannover, Germany, from May 22-25, 2016. It welcomes participation from all disciplines including, but not limited to, art, computer and information sciences, communication, economics, humanities, informatics, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Some Problems with GLAM data on GitHub

Your institution likely already has some web form or email address, attached to some type of internal workflow (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), for ingesting public feedback about the content or presentation of your collections information. GitHub repositories have a light issue tracking system turned on by default, the idea being that any GitHub user can quickly post up […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Apply Now for Doing Digital History 2016

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has opened applications for its summer Digital History summer institute: “Are you a mid-career American historian interested in digital history training for novices? Apply now for one of 25 available spots for the Doing Digital History: 2016 summer institute to be held July 11- 22, 2016 […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Public and Digital: Doing History Now

In the spring of 2013, I wrote two articles on the digital technologies that were changing the way we do history: one on blogging (Digital History: A Primer Part 1) and one on digitizing documents and images (Digital History: A Primer Part 2). I promised to write a third article on what I called “Digital […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Spaces, A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects

The interdisciplinary online journal Southern Spaces invites researchers, writers, teachers, artists, documentary producers, and geographers to submit materials for a 2017–2018 “Digital Spaces” series.  We seek multi-media articles and projects that engage with and mobilize digital scholarship. “Digital Spaces” is especially interested in work that deals with the real and imagined spaces and places of […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: The IUDHies (International Undergraduate Digital Humanities Prize)

I think there ought to be an international undergraduate digital humanities prize. Undergraduate students do amazing work.  So maybe one of our academic organizations can put something together. But in the meantime, maybe we should collect example projects from the last few years, and maybe we can agree to award some informal IUDHies?   Read full CPF […]