Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Intern, JSTOR

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Intern (DH) will work the JSTOR Labs team to extend Understanding Shakespeare, its partnership project with the Folger Shakespeare Library. Understanding Shakespeare has shown a new way of connecting primary texts with the literature about them, and the DH Intern will play a pivotal role in making this resource […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference

From the CFP: The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is accepting proposals for its annual Scholarly Publishing Conference, to be held August 11-14, 2015 in Vancouver. Abstracts are being solicited for 5-minute lightning talks and 2-day development sprint. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2015. Source: CFP: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: PhD Opportunity on ‘Abstract Mapping for Ancient and Contemporary Cities’

From the post: The School of Computing at the University of Kent is currently advertising an exciting and innovative interdisciplinary research project lead by Dr Peter Rodgers (Computing) and Dr Benjamin Vis (Classical and Archaeological Studies). We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD student with advanced software development skills. The ideal candidate would also have […]

News, Resources

Resource: The Complete n00b’s Guide to Gephi

Because my last tutorial, The Complete n00b’s Guide to Mapping in R, received a positive response, I decided to create another beginner’s guide to visualizing data. For this edition, I’ve chosen Gephi, an excellent and simple tool to do social network analysis. This tutorial is meant to get you started quickly and provide the basics […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Not Enough Perspectives

Digital Humanities suffers from a lack of perspectives in two ways: we need to focus more on the perspectives of those who interact with the cultural objects we study, and we need more outside academic perspectives. In Part 1, I cover Russian Formalism, questions of validity, and what perspective we bring to our studies. In Part […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Proposal for a Corpus Sharing Protocol

Digital humanists working in computational text analysis need a better way to share corpora. Following is a rough sketch of a way to share texts in way that facilitates collaboration, provides for easy error correction, and adheres as much as possible to decentralized, open-source, and open-access models. The problem of corpus availability is deep and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze | U-M Library

From the announcement:  Hosted by the Bentley Historical Library and University of Michigan Library, this two-day multi-disciplinary conference will provide a forum to explore ideas, tools, and methodologies for creating and managing web archives and better understand the scholarly and research needs of those working in the field.  By engaging key stakeholders in a common dialogue, […]

Job Announcements, News

JOB: Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian, Georgia State University

From the posting: Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities. The Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian will be engaged in the exploration of new forms […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Adopts Open Access Policy to Support Free Knowledge

From the announcement: The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to making knowledge of all forms freely available to the world. Beginning today, our new Open Access Policy will ensure that all research work produced with support from the Wikimedia Foundation will be openly available to the public and reusable on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. We […]