CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Working with Text in a Digital Age » 2014 Workshop

As a follow-on to Working with Text in a Digital Age, an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Digital Humanities and in collaboration with the Open Philology Project at the University of Leipzig, Tufts University announces a two-day workshop on publishing textual data that is available under an open license, that is structured for […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Copyleft, IP Rights, and Digital Humanities Dissertations

Who holds the intellectual property (IP) rights to your digital dissertation? In my case, the answer is complicated, involving multiple licenses and stakeholders. Digital humanities productions brings new licensing concerns to the humanities. Our pre-digital discussions around IP usually centered around book contracts and open-access journals; rights claims from any agency that funds you during […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: DH Now Editor-at-Large

We here at Digital Humanities Now invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for rotations throughout Spring 2014. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing our aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, as well as your own networks, to nominate content for distribution through DHNow and […]

News, Resources

Resource: An OCR normalizer for English texts after 1700

I’m sharing the code I use to correct OCR in my own research. I’ve shared parts of this before, but this is the first time I’ve made any effort to package it so that it will run on other people’s machines. If you’ve got Python 3.x, you should be able to clone this github repository, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Documentary Project on Women in Gaming Culture

My colleague Jennifer deWinter and I are putting together a short documentary project, and we are looking for contributors. We are seeking contributions from women engaged in gaming culture as players, critics, scholars, creators, and the like. We are planning a scholarly documentary in which women read the comments that they have received for making public […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Challenges of Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing can build virtual community, engage the public, and build large knowledge databases about science and culture. But what does it take, and how fast can you grow? For some insight, we look at a crowdsourced history site: Historypin is an appealing database of historical photos, with dates, locations, captions, and other metadata. It’s called History […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: A Working Definition of Digital Humanities

Hah! I tricked you. I don’t intend to define digital humanities here—too much blood has already been spilled over that subject. I’m sure we all remember the terrible digital humanities / humanities computing wars of 2004, now commemorated yearly under a Big Tent in the U.S., Europe, or in 2015, Australia. Most of us still […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Online Community Strategist, HASTAC

Be HASTAC’s online community strategist. Job responsibilities will include web site administrator and builder, new media strategy and implementation, digital media and learning competition technical support, being a team member, institutional coordination, digital communication, and EAGER project manager and collaborator. View job ad here.