Job: Digital Humanities Technology Analyst, Duke University
Duke University is recruiting a Digital Technology Analyst. Read the full ad here.
Author: The Editors
Editor’s Choice: Meaning and Perspectives in the Digital Humanities
The KNAW, UvA, VU and IBM are developing a long-term strategic partnership to be operationalized as the Center for Humanities and Technology (CHAT). The members and partners of CHAT will create new analytical methods, practices, data and instruments to enhance significantly the performance and impact of humanities, information science and computer science research. As a […]
CFP: 8th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games
Scholars in any field of study are invited to submit papers for the 8th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, taking place in Istanbul, 13-15 November 2014. Read the full CFP: CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games – Freedom in Play.
Job: Digital Archivist, New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is recruiting a Digital Archivist. See the full ad here.
Job: Web Developer, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania University Museum is seeking a gordion database and web developer. See full posting here.
Resource: The PressForward Plugin
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media announces the release of its newest digital tool, the PressFoward Plugin, a tool for aggregating, curating and publishing content from the web. See full announcement here: Announcing the PressForward Plugin!
Editor’s Choice: A Decade in Digital Humanities
This is the crux of what I plan to say—or hope to say—at my professorial inaugural lecture at UCL on the 27th May 2014…I decided to call my inaugural lecture “A Decade in Digital Humanities” for three reasons. 1. The term Digital Humanities has been commonly used to describe the application of computational methods in […]
Resource: Open WiFi Is Not a CopyCrime: EFF’s Primer on Open WiFi and Copyright
At EFF, we are big fans of open wireless. But we also know that operators of open networks sometimes worry that they could be legally responsible if people use their networks to engage in copyright infringement. We’ve put together a short white paper that generally explains the scope and limits of operator liability for the […]
Job: Research Associate/Senior Research Associate in Spatial Humanities at Lancaster University
We wish to appoint a Research Associate with expertise in nineteenth century demography, social history or historical geography for an exciting post in a major research team. You will work closely with Prof Ian Gregory and an inter-disciplinary group of researchers at Lancaster University. The project, Spatial Humanities: Text, GIS, Places (www.lancs.ac.uk/spatialhum), funded by the […]
Resource: Metropolitan Museum Initiative Provides Free Access to 400,000 Digital Images
New Web Program Allows Free Image Download for Non-Commercial Use (New York, May 16, 2014)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use—including […]