Opportunity: Digital Art History Institute, UCLA
An eight-day summer institute in the digital humanities and art historical research will be held at UCLA. Read the full announcement here.
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Opportunity: Beautiful Data workshop, metaLAB (at) Harvard
The Getty Foundation is sponsoring a summer workshop at metaLAB (at) Harvard, forcusing on open collections and art-historical storytelling. See full announcement here.
Editors’ Choice: Gone Home and Its Hidden Objects
Gone Home is a graphic adventure game in which the player takes on the role of Katie Greenbriar, returning to her family home after a year abroad in Europe. It is a dark and stormy night, the door is locked, no one is home and there’s a cryptic note on the door from your sister, […]
Editors’ Choice: Ethnography in Communities of Big Data
Across the field of health and wellness there is a lot of talk about data, from consumer self-tracking and Quantified Self data, to data-driven, personalized health care, to data-intensive, crowd sourced, scientific discovery. But what are these different stakeholders talking about when they talk about data and are they talking about the same thing? At […]
CFP: 2014 Digital Jumpstart Workshops
The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce that registration for the Spring 2014 Digital Jumpstart Workshops, to be held on Thursday, March 6 & Friday, March 7, is now open. Read Full Post Here
CFP: JCDL and International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
In 2014 the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) in London, UK. The combined DL conference will be the major international scientific forum on digital libraries for 2014, bringing together researchers and […]
Job: Head of Digital Experience, Archives of American Art
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Description: Included in the responsibilities are coordinating and publishing content from internal stakeholders; monitoring and evaluating the Archives’ web properties; working closely with technical and digital projects’ staff and contract developers and designers; keeping abreast of relevant emerging technologies; participating in Smithsonian-wide web and IT-related activities, and […]
CFP: CDH 2014 – Centre for Digital Heritage, The University of York
Digital Heritage 2014: Digital Communities in Action Saturday 12 July 2014, 9.30am Speaker: A keynote address will be given by Catherine Clarke, Professor in English at the University of Southampton. Digital Heritage is an annual conference hosted by the Centre for Digital Heritage. This year theme will be ‘Digital Communities in Action’ and so we […]
Editors’ Choice: Do Historians Need Scientists?
The long answer is that historians don’t necessarily need scientists, but that we do need fresh scientific methods. Perhaps as an accident of our association with the ill-defined “humanities”, or as a result of our being placed in an entirely different culture (see: C.P. Snow), most historians seem fairly content with methods rooted in thinking […]
Job: Asst. Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Georgia
The College of Environment and Design and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia seek to fill a tenure‐track faculty position in Digital Humanities with specialties in Historic Preservation, Public History, Cultural Landscapes, and/or Heritage Tourism at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning August 2014. Read Full Posting Here.