November 14, 2013 Over the past four years, Digital Humanities Now (DHNow) has used a variety of approaches to aggregating, reviewing, selecting, and disseminating scholarly content from the open web. Originally populated with content from Twitter chosen by an algorithm and automatically-published on the website, since 2011 the content for DHNow has been selected and […]
The School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced has one position open at either the Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate/Full (tenured) level with expertise in World Heritage from the perspective of Digital Heritage and/or Digital Humanities. We seek a candidate whose research methods involve visualization. Candidates may focus on depicting […]
The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers. The result of a partnership between the New York Public Library and the Maryland Institute […]
The University of South Florida (Tampa) will host this free, one-day colloquium to explore the implications of Big Data for Writing Studies. At USF, faculty and doctoral students have been working towards applying Big Data research tools and methods in the context of university writing programs. Thanks to our institution’s use of My Reviewers (see […]
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Library offers a two-year CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries supporting digital humanities scholarship, investigating emerging collaborative research practices and developing a pilot infrastructure to support this research. To this end, the University Library seeks an energetic and creative postdoctoral fellow who will demonstrate innovative thinking and a […]
Smithsonian X 3D launches a set of use cases which apply various 3D capture methods to iconic collection objects, as well as scientific missions. Learn about the fascinating features of the new Smithsonian X 3D Explorer and how to navigate, explore and manipulate 3D collection objects. This article gives you a comprehensive overview. Continue reading […]
I’ve taught “Introduction to Omeka” many times at various THATCamps, but I’ve never done more than work from an outline. Today, however, I wrote it all down, and I am posting it for your edification here. The text is below, and here is a PDF: Introduction_to_Omeka_Lesson_Plan. I’ve marked the PDF with a CC-BY license, and all […]
This is the second in my series of posts on the Old Bailey Online (OBO) corpus. I’ve downloaded all of the trial transcripts from 1674 to 1834 (find out how on the Programming Historian 2), which is about 100,000 trials and 51 million words of text. In the last post I looked at the impact of editors […]
Over the past four years, Digital Humanities Now (DHNow) has used a variety of approaches to aggregating, reviewing, selecting, and disseminating scholarly content from the open web. Originally populated with content from Twitter chosen by an algorithm and automatically-published on the website, since 2011 the content for DHNow has been selected and prepared by an […]
Ohio University Libraries seeks a proactive and dynamic Assistant Dean for Collections & Digital Initiatives. The successful candidate must be comfortable in a fast-paced atmosphere, energized by an exciting future, and be able to engage our stakeholders and provide leadership and strategy for the management and development of collections and digital initiatives. Read the job […]
