….Although the Big Data Initiative only includes scientific agencies, it turns out that the humanities have been involved for just as long. In 2009, when Data.Gov was being launched, the first Digging into Data Challenge was held. Sponsored by the NEH and comparable organizations in the UK and Canada, the eight winning Digging into Data […]
Short answer: learning management systems. ….I’ve been working on a broader narrative for contextualizing the work we’re doing at University of Mary Washington with Domain of One’s Own. This initiative offers students and faculty a domain and web hosting so that they can more deeply inhabit and interrogate the web. For some, it’s most easily […]
Editors’ Note: You also may be interested in Ed Summer’s overview of what happens when you embed a Getty Image. Getty Images new embed feature makes it easy, legal and free for anybody to share our images on websites, blogs and social media platforms. Search images available to embed.
The Library of Congress has hosted annual meetings with digital preservation partners, collaborators and others committed to stewardship of digital content for the past ten years. The meetings have served as a forum for sharing achievements in the areas of technical infrastructure, innovation, content collection, standards and best practices and outreach efforts. We are looking […]
This 3-3 teaching load includes introductory, advanced, and graduate courses as well as American literature survey. Additional competence in literary theory, film studies, or digital humanities preferred. via SUNY Cortland Human Resources – Vacancy Announcements : Posting Details.
The Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame are recruiting an American History/Digital Humanities Librarian. View job excerpt here.
The official description of today’s panel, “Literary texts and the library in the digital age,” reads as follows: Digital technologies are opening up new possibilities for the investigation of literary and historic texts. They are also changing library spaces and reconfiguring relationships between librarians and researchers. This program investigates new roles for European and American […]
….“Close reading” is not a method per se. Rather, it’s an attitude, I think, where “close” actually means “closely,” implying an extra degree of care, attention to detail, expertise, etc. When we ask someone “to pay close attention” to something, we’re not asking them to invade our personal space; we use it as an intensifier, […]
Yesterday, my colleagues and I at RRCHNM launched a great new public history site, Histories of the National Mall, mallhistory.org. It is built in Omeka with a beautiful responsive design that displays on a phone, tablet, or laptop. (Read full announcement on the RRCHNM blog.) We have been thrilled with the positive response we have […]
Washington and Lee University invites applications for a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for recent Ph.D.s in history who intend to pursue careers as teacher-scholars in a liberal arts college setting. See the full job ad here.
