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Editors’ Choice: Stewarding Digital Humanities Work on the Web at MITH

A digital humanities center is nothing if not a site of constant motion: staff, directors, fellows, projects, partners, tools, technologies, resources, and (innumerable) best practices all change over time, sometimes in quite unpredictable ways. As small, partly or wholly soft-funded units whose missions involve research, or teaching, or anchoring a local interest community, digital humanities […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2015, the 19th edition of the conference, is organized by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and will be held in Poznań, […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Projects Librarian, Binghamton University

From the posting: The Digital Projects Librarian will manage digitization projects for the Libraries, upload items into the digital preservation system (currently Rosetta by Ex Libris), manage workflows and conduct quality checks, and prepare items for retrieval and display via the Libraries’ discovery layer (Primo by Ex Libris). The incumbent will also collaborate with library staff to […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Life of Breath Postdoctoral Fellow Positions – Centre for Medical Humanities

From the announcement: The Centre for Medical Humanities and Department of English Studies, Department of Anthropology, and School of Medicine Pharmacy and Health,  seek to appoint two three year, full-time Postdoctoral Fellows to the Life of Breath project from September 2015 or as soon as possible afterwards.  The Life of Breath is a five-year interdisciplinary research programme supported by a […]

News, Resources

Resource: Historical Maps into Unity3d

From the post: Say there’s a historical map that you want to digitize.  It may or may not have contour lines on it, but there is some indication of the topography (hatching or shading or what not). Say you wanted to digitize it such that a person could explore its conception of geography from a first […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE) Comes Back to Life

One of King’s oldest digital prosopographical project has recently returned to life, and is now freely available online at http://www.pbe.kcl.ac.uk. The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE) began as a project back in the late 1980s to produce a prosopography of individuals who appear in sources from the early Byzantine Empire (641-867 AD). … PBE […]

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Editors’ Choice: Why OERs are Important for Critical Pedagogues

Few things annoy me more than burning time on bureaucratic paperwork. Frankly, as an educator, my time and attention should be centered on students and learning — and that includes  modifying and selecting readings and resources. Finding fresh critical pedagogical articles that connect pop culture and critical thinking, for example, is not only more interesting […]

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Editors’ Choice: Digital Trends in Fairy-Tale Scholarship

  I was fortunate enough to be invited to the “At the Crossroads of Data and Wonder Symposium” held at Brigham Young University this month, where folklorists gathered with digital humanities folks to discuss the application of quantitative and digital methods to fairy-tale and folklore research. I compiled all of the #VisualizingWonder tweets into a Storify […]

Job Announcements, News

Jobs: Digital Humanities Producers at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

From the announcement: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is seeking entry-level digital humanities/multimedia producers for limited-term projects at our headquarters in New York City. Candidates should have the ability and creativity to take materials in a variety of formats to construct high-quality digital presentations.  Familiarity with online best practices and open source programs […]