At the Association of Computational Linguistics conference in Bulgaria last month, researchers from CMU presented a model for cinematic archetypes: “Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters.” The model uses the descriptive language of Wikipedia entries along with personal data of actors in films to automatically induce a set of character personas: the traitor, the flirt. As […]
My purpose here, following in the spirit of Kathleen Fitzpatrick, is to consider how to cultivate good habits of live-tweeting in academic contexts… The guiding principle that should animate the live-tweeting of a lecture is the attempt to use public words to create a supportive community of thoughts, ideas, and people related to the theme under […]
These are Geoffrey Rockwell’s conference notes on a Digital Environmental Humanities Network workshop. This workshop was help Sept. 7th and 8th, 2013 in Montreal and organized by Stephanie Posthumus and Stefan Sinclair. There isn’t a web site for the workshop, but there is a web site for the emerging area, Canadian Environmental Humanities. philosophi.ca : […]
The Geospatial Historian is a tutorial-based open access textbook, modeled on the Programming Historian, designed to teach humanists practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs. Geospatial Historian | beta website.
MITH is delighted to announce our fall 2013 slate of Digital Dialogues speakers. All events are held in the MITH Conference Room, 0301 Hornbake Library, University of Maryland. View Schedule Here.
Scope: The 3rd International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA) aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on databases, data warehousing, data mining, data management, data security and other aspects of information systems and technology involving advanced applications of data. View CFP here.
Speaking in Code is an NEH-funded symposium and summit that will bring together approximately 20 accomplished digital humanities software developers at the University of Virginia Library Scholars’ Lab. Together, we will give voice to what is almost always tacitly expressed in our work: expert knowledge about the intellectual and interpretive dimensions of DH code-craft, and […]
The University of Mary Washington Libraries are recruiting a Digital Resources Librarian. View job here.
Humanities + Design at Stanford University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Implementation grant for “Networks in History.” The Fellow will join a research team working within Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA, http://cesta.stanford.edu/) on the design of visualization techniques that emphasize the contextualization and interpretation of data in cases where we lack the metrics for […]
The Department of History at Michigan State University is currently seeking a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). View job here.
