One of the things that’s struck me as I’ve looked into (the so-called) digital humanities in the last year or two – most intensely in the last six months – is how very little there is about the aspect of computing that most attracted me some four decades or so ago, the computer as model […]
The Digital Projects Developer develops and maintains web applications utilized by faculty, staff, students, and patrons of the Duke University Libraries (DUL). S/He provides support for middleware and interface development for DUL’s enterprise platforms. S/He serves as analyst in a variety of areas, including data management, usability, applications architecture, and workflow enhancement. Read Full Post […]
Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Monica Berti, Greta Franzini & Simona Stoyanova (Leipzig) ‘The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series and Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum Projects’ Friday June 27 at 16:30 in room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS) is a new collaborative […]
Having recently completed our first content workpackage (CWP1), dedicated to Early Geospatial Documents from the Latin Tradition, we’d like to take this opportunity to share the annotation data that we’ve compiled so far. Overall we have completed annotating place references in 33 documents (41 if we include additional language versions of the same document). Within […]
.entry-header October 20-24, 2014: Crash Course Digital Humanities, Amsterdam Location: Waag Society, Amsterdam During the last decade the humanities have witnessed an explosive growth in using digital tools. While this trend has been beneficial for much humanities research, it also threatens to create a gap between humanities scholars who have and scholars who haven’t acquired […]
OpenNLP provides trained models for identifying Parts of Speech (POS). It also provides trained models for Named Entity Recognition (NER), the ability to identify common structures such as names, locations, organizations, among other things. These models are useful for general language processing requirements, but I am working in the domain of literature, and additional knowledge […]
Disruption, as a term and theory, has been the subject of much discussion in both mainstream and social media – a level of interest that has only increased as a result of Jill Lepore’s June 2014 article for The New Yorker, ‘The Disruption Machine’. In this article Lepore debunks some of the myths surrounding Clayton […]
As more and more scholars experiment with building digital humanities (DH) resources, how are their host institutions approaching the challenge of supporting these diverse projects over time? In this study, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ithaka S+R explored the different models colleges and universities have adopted to support DH outputs on their […]
Northeastern University’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, in collaboration with the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities and the Society for Military History, invites applicants for participation in an NEH Workshop on Digital Methods for Military History, a workshop designed to help scholars whose work focuses on the history of war and warfare to learn […]
The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library welcomes proposals for panels, papers, and presentations that address pedagogical approaches for using digital tools in humanities, science, and social science classrooms. See full posting here.
