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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Job Announcements, News

Job: Deputy Director for Digital Strategies and Information Technology, Free Library of Philadelphia

Responsible for the planning, development, management and implementation of customer-centred digital services activities, programs, services and initiatives consistent with the Library’s strategic direction and vision. The Deputy Director for Digital Strategies and Information Technology provides professional leadership and coordination in the planning, implementation, and administration of digital services policies and programs for the Free Library […]

News, Resources

Resource: Stamen Maps for Tableau

Stamen has long aspired to make it easier for people everywhere to visualize data, particularly on and with maps. In our recent partnership with Tableau, we’ve helped to improve a tool that does just that. Tableau’s latest version, 8.2, comes complete with a mapping suite designed by us. Suddenly it’s that much easier for people […]

By: beth
Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: New paper: Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite

Over the last year I’ve spent many hours going through dissertations on electronic literature, entering information about them and the creative works they cite into the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base so that I could visualize the networks of works. The final paper is now published in the July 2014 issue of the Electronic book review: […]

By: Jill
CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities Summer School 2014 at KU Leuven

New digital evolutions are increasingly affecting humanities research and education since the final quarter of the twentieth century. Online resources, data sets, electronic teaching environments, open access publishing, data visualisation and data capturing have become ubiquitous. Therefore, the KU Leuven Faculty of Arts has consciously chosen to support DH developments as part of its research […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference: 14-16 November 2014

Call for Proposals  Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its first annual international digital scholarship conference. The theme of the conference is “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research” with the goal of gathering a broad community of scholar-practitioners engaged in collaborative digital scholarship in research and teaching. Source: […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Visualizing Algorithms

Visualizing Algorithms The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… Without external aids, memory, thought, and reasoning are all constrained. But human intelligence is highly flexible and adaptive, superb at inventing procedures and objects that overcome its own limits. The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. How have we […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Constructing Scientific Communities

The Constructing Scientific Communities project, part of the AHRC’s Science in Culture theme, is inviting proposals for citizen science or ‘citizen humanities’ projects to be developed as part of the Zooniverse.org platform. Proposals are welcome from researchers whose work would benefit from the active participation of tens or even hundreds of volunteers. Source: Proposals | […]