Job: Faculty Fellow, New York University
The Department of English at New York University seeks applications for a Faculty Fellow in Digital Humanities (DH) commencing September 1, 2015. Read the full advertisement here.
Author: the Editors
The Sweep of History
Many if not most contemporary historians would probably agree with the statement that “the typical mode of explanation used by historians [is] narrative.” (Roberts 2001) Storytelling, then, is not the difference between history and fiction. Instead, we could say, the scope of the story is what differentiates historical and fictional writing. For the past four months, […]
DHNow Will Be Back Next Week!
Digital Humanities Now is taking the week off. We’ll be back with new featured posts on June 2!
Funding: Women In Technological History Travel Grant: SHOT Meeting in Albuquerque 2015
From the announcement: The SHOT Special Interest Group for Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel award for 2015. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. WITH invites applications from scholars presenting topics or perspectives underrepresented […]
Job: Web Administrator and Digital Access Coordinator, Chicago State University
From the posting: Chicago State University Library seeks a creative individual with outstanding organizational skills and knowledge of library services to serve as Web Administrator and Digital Access Coordinator responsible for library digital and web services in the Library Technical Services Department. In addition to essential librarian duties, the applicant will be responsible for set […]
Announcement: Earn a Graduate Certificate in Digital Public Humanities Online
From the announcement: Digital tools and resources are transforming the ways in which we research, interpret, and communicate. Be part of this change by enrolling in the new graduate online Digital Public Humanities Certificate created by the Department of History and Art History and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George […]
Job: Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries at New York Public Library
From the posting: NYPL seeks a leader for one of the most prestigious positions in the research library community – the Andrew W. Mellon Director. The leader will ensure that the most democratically accessible of collections thrives and is well preserved, added to and curated, providing the best physical experiences and services for research, and […]
EC: What Do We Mean by ‘Preserving Digital Information’? Towards Sound Conceptual Foundations for Digital Stewardship
Abstract: Digital preservation is fundamental to information stewardship in the 21st century. Although much useful work on preservation strategies has been accomplished, we do not yet have an adequate conceptual framework that articulates precisely and formally what preservation actually is. The intention of the account provided here is to bring us closer to this goal. […]
Editors’ Choice: Semantic Description of Cultural Digital Images
Abstract: Semantic description and annotation of digital images is key to the management and reuse of images in humanities computing. Due to the lack of domain-specific hierarchical description schema and controlled vocabularies for digital images, annotation results produced by current methods, such as machine annotation based on low-level visual features and human annotation based on […]
CFParticipation: Digital Art History Workshop Week – May 26-29, 2015
From the announcement: Conceived as a gentle and easy introduction to some facets of Digital Art History, akin to slowly entering a swimming pool via the shallow section, this four-day event covers some of the more popular areas of DAH (mapping, virtual modeling, augmented reality, online exhibitions, database-building and visualization) and is divided into two […]