We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2014 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, processing, description, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern hand-written and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or analysis of these resources is welcome to participate. […]
For months now I’ve been stewing about how much I hate @HistoryInPics and their ilk (@HistoryInPix, @HistoricalPics, @History_Pics, etc.)—twitter streams that do nothing more than post “old” pictures and little tidbits of captions for them.1 And when I say “nothing more” that’s precisely what I mean. What they don’t post includes attribution to the photographer […]
The Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage announces several fellowships for early stage researchers. See full announcement here.
HASTAC seeks volunteers to help organize and promote the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop. See volunteer opportunity here.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies welcomes proposals for a conference on African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture. Read the full call for papers here.
NINES announces a new series of blog posts that will focus on uses of Juxta Commons. See the call for blog posts here.
A list of recent digital humanities syllabi can be found here.
In…Age of Empires, we see that an easy to grasp, difficult to master theory can sit inside an equally easy to play, difficult to master strategy game, a point where complex historical modelling – even if those models are incomplete or overturned – has a positive influence on the development on a style of gameplay. […]
The following series of blog posts by Joshua Sternfeld, Katharina Hering, Kate Theimer, and Michael Kramer is based on our session at the AHA meeting in 2014 on Digital Historiography and the Archives. We conceptualized the session as an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion. Short presentations by each panelist led to a rich and multifaceted discussion with the audience. […]
The National Archives seeks volunteers to tag data in First World War Unit Diaries. See Operation War Diary here.
