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Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: PhD Research at the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain – Roman History

The Social Simulation group from the Computer Applications & Engineering Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is offering a PhD studentship position on Computer Science available in the ERC-project “EPNet: Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics” http://www.roman-ep.net/epnet/. The project involves an exciting opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: British Library Labs – Competition 2014

Calling all researchers, scholars, trailblazers and software developers! British Library Labs wants to work with you to bring your innovative and transformative ideas for using our digital collections to life! Submit your project idea by Tuesday 22 April 2014 (midnight BST). UPDATE: The deadline for entries has now been extended to Wednesday 30 April 2014 […]

News, Resources

Resource: How Did They Make That? The Video!

From Miriam Posner’s Blog: After I wrote my original “How Did They Make That?” post, on some common types of DH projects, I got to thinking about whether there might be ways to help people reverse-engineer digital projects on their own. I used a talk I gave at CUNY as an excuse to think of […]

News, Resources

Resource: Open Source Tools for Viewing Large Collections in JS in the Browser

Developers from the New York Times have released some open source software meant for displaying and managing large digital content collections, and doing so client-side, in the browser with JS. Developed for journalism, this has some obvious potential relevance to the business of libraries too, right? Large collections (increasingly digital), that’s what we’re all about, […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: The 4th RECODE Workshop

Registration is now open for the next RECODE workshop ”Institutional support for open access to research data” in which we aim to develop a set of policy recommendations that provide support for institutions involved in making open access to research data possible. The workshop takes place ahead of the LIBER 43rd Annual Conference RESEARCH LIBRARIES […]

News, Resources

Resource: Principal Component Analysis, Step by Step

In this article I want to explain how a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) works by implementing it in Python step by step. At the end we will compare the results to the more convenient Python PCA()classes that are available through the popular matplotlib and scipy libraries and discuss how they differ. The main purposes of […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: DH2014 Workshop, Lausanne: Audiovisual Material in Digital Humanities

Workshop Programme The workshop aims to bring scholars and computer scientists together to discuss the following key questions in four subsequent sessions. Why are audiovisual data/archives scarcely used within the (Digital) Humanities? What are possible strategies to stimulate the use of audiovisual data/archives within the  Digital Humanities? Which examples of digital tools applied on audiovisual […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: My Digital Dissertation: Public Humanities, Participatory Design, and Infinite Ulysses

What if we build a digital edition and everyone (millions of scholars, first-time readers, book clubs, teachers and their students) shows up and annotates the text with their infinite interpretations, questions, and contextualizations? The “Infinite Ulysses” project pursues this speculative experiment, and today I’m going to talk about how this unlikely hypothetical is helping me […]