You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation –Plato From the beginning of the year, the Praxis cohort recognized ‘play’ as one of the key aspects of the Ivanhoe experience. Yet, how does play shape Ivanhoe? What are the effects of this play? In previous years, […]
In case you missed Jill Lepore has written a superb article for the New Yorker about the Internet Archive and archiving the Web in general. The story of the Internet Archive is largely the story of its creator Brewster Kahle. If you’ve heard Kahle speak you’ve probably heard the Library of Alexandria v2.0 metaphor before. […]
The Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University announces the launch of Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies. Provoke! is a web collection of digital projects focused on sound studies, digital humanities, and the audio arts. See the collection here: Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies
Indiana University is looking for a Digital Initiatives Librarian, as well as a Digital Preservation Librarian. See the job postings here: Librarians | Indiana University Libraries.
.entry-header The Digital Classicist London are seeking proposals for papers to be considered for the summer, 2015 seminars. See the full CFP here: Digital Classicist London 2015 call for papers
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 […]
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 […]
