Resource: Text Mechanic – Text Manipulation Tools
Text Mechanic offers a suit of “simple, single task, browser based, text manipulation tools.” Source: Text Mechanic™ – Text Manipulation Tools
Author: Colleen Nugent
Opportunity: Bursaries for DH2015
From the announcement: Each year the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) offers a limited number of bursaries for Early Career scholars presenting at the conference. For DH2015 there will also be additional bursaries available, on a competitive basis, to emerging scholars and practitioners from Australia and New Zealand. Source: Bursaries | DH2015
Opportunity: NINES Offers Partial DHSI Scholarships
From the announcement: We are pleased to announce that Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship will be partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in order to offer opportunities for members to participate in the series of DH courses at the University of Victoria, June 1st-5th 2015, June 8th-12th 2015, and June 15th-19th 2015. For a […]
Opportunity: ELO-DHSI Summer Courses (June 2015)
From the announcement: We are pleased to announce that the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) will be partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer opportunities for members to participate in the series of DH courses at the University of Victoria that takes place from June 1st-5th 2015, June 8th-12th 2015, and June 15th-19th 2015. […]
CFP: Digital Humanities Area, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
From the Call for Papers: The DH area is seeking papers (approximately 15 minutes in length) that explore the practical, pedagogical, and theoretical issues stemming from the use of Web technologies and other computing techniques and applications to enhance the study of the humanities, particularly popular and American culture studies. What are some of the […]
Editors Choice: Opening up Classics and the Humanities: Computation, the Homer Multitext Project and Citizen Science
From the abstract: Increasingly powerful computational methods are important for humanists not simply because they make it possible to ask new research questions but especially because computation makes it both possible — and arguably essential — to transform the relationship between humanities research and society, opening up a range of possibilities for student contributions and […]
Editors Choice: Applying Forensics to Preserving the Past: Current Activities and Future Possibilities
With more and more libraries, archives and museums manifestly adopting forensic approaches and tools for handling and processing born digital objects both in the UK and overseas it seemed a good time to take stock. Archivists and curators were invited (via professional email listservs) to submit a short paper for an inclusive and interactive workshop […]
Editors Choice: The Internet of Things for the Masses — Increasing Engagement in a Digitized World
The Internet of Things (IoT) can be defined as the digitizing of reality, the connectedness of the real world, the online extension of … everything. Simply put, IoT is the concept of smart devices interacting with one another through an online connection. IoT technology is not necessarily new in theory or practice: uniquely-identified devices have […]
Job: Assistant Professor of English: Corpus Linguistics/Digital Humanities
The University of Nevada, Reno, Department of English is seeking to fill an an entry-level tenure-track position in corpus linguistics and/or digital humanities. Source: Assistant Professor of English: Corpus Linguistics/Digital Humanities
Opportunity: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities at UNC
UNC is offering a post-doctoral fellowship in digital humanities: This scholar will (1) develop his/her research and publication agenda through the use of digital technologies in a project to be completed by the end of the fellowship experience; (2) contribute to the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative by participating in the ongoing project work of the […]