Welcome to A Digital Reading of Twentieth Century Demography. This website is a digital supplement to the dissertation I am preparing as a requirement of the Ph.D. program in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, titled “Prediction and Control: Global Population, Population Science, and Population Politics in the Twentieth Century.” …The dissertation […]
If the Internet went down all historical software would cease to function, except for Microsoft Word. For an academic historian, a grant to build a high profile web-based project is likely the biggest pot of money he or she will ever receive during their career. That is, if they ever receive it, as few historians […]
As the new semester gets underway, we’re issuing the call for volunteers to help us choose the pieces that we feature on Digital Humanities Now. Editors-at-Large see all the work and announcements published each week on the more than 400 websites that Digital Humanities Now follows. Volunteering a few hours in a given week provides access […]
Ernesto Miranda has published a digital edition of the Codex Mendoza, an important source about pre-Hispanic culture in Mexico. Find it here. Source: Digital Codex Mendoza online
The Talk of Europe – Travelling CLARIN Campus project, in pursuit of its goal to facilitate pan-European collaboration in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computer Science, seeks proposals for their international creative camps. Further information and the CFP can be found here.
At their best, altmetrics tools are meant to encourage scholarly activity around published papers on line. It can seem, indeed, like a chicken-and-egg situation: without healthy, collegial, reciprocal cultures of scholarly interaction on the web, mentions of scholarly content will not be significant. Simultaneously, if publications do not provide identifiers like DOIs and authors, publishers […]
I’m an archaeological impostor. It feels good to say that. When I go to conferences I feel like I don’t fit in – although that’s not why I can’t be with you bodily today. That’s another story that involves someone called “The Man.” But I’m sure that many of you felt that way at some […]
From the announcement: We’re excited to invite you to join us at DPLAfest 2015, taking place on April 17-18, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our hosts include the Indianapolis Public Library (Central), the Indiana State Library, the IUPUI University Library, and the Indiana Historical Society. About DPLAfest brings together the full range of the cultural heritage sector […]
From the post: Riding a tangent from my previous post on web performance, here is an introduction to Grunt, a JavaScript task runner. Why would we use Grunt? It’s become a common tool for web development as it puts together a number of tedious but necessary steps for optimizing a website. However, “task runner” is […]
From the CFP: The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are recently being used not only as a mere metaphor but are increasingly applied in practice. In the last decades several studies in the social sciences proved that formal methods derived from social network analysis can be fruitfully applied to selected […]
