LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities will publish a special issue of top papers from Digital Humanities 2013, the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, held this summer at the University of Nebraska. We invite submissions from anyone who presented at the meeting, including those who gave long and short papers, or who participated in […]
Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Tenure-Track School of Literature, Media, and Communication Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Georgia Institute of Technology Digital Media at Georgia Tech
As we Praxis Program fellows embark on just what exactly we want our version of the Ivanhoe Game to accomplish we’ve been doing some “research” – good old fashion game playing. However, I’ve noticed a sense of frustration within our play, or perhaps it is just me that becomes a bit frustrated with the games […]
In a recent blog post for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Ben Alpers argues that iBooks Author is not very well suited for humanities learning. I have written before about problems with iBooks Author’s Terms of Service, but Alpers critiques the program’s authoring tools, arguing that its bias towards the presentation of “concepts and […]
The transition to interacting with your computer on the command line can be a little jarring at first if you’re accustomed to working in an environment dominated by windows, cursors, buttons, and other GUI pleasantries. Really, though, these graphical features are often just façades for functionality that can be achieved with more flexibility and speed […]
Smithsonian American Art Museum invites web and software developers (individuals or teams) to create concept prototypes for part or all of a new digital interpretive solution for the museum’s Luce Foundation Center. Luce Foundation Center Hackathon Tickets, Washington – Eventbrite.
A spider (or ‘crawler’ or ‘bot’) is a program that downloads a page from the Internet, saves some or all of the content, extracts links to other webpages, then retrieves and processes those in turn…Here we will develop a surprisingly simple Bash script to explore and visualize a tiny region of the WorldCat Identities database. […]
The New York Public Library is hiring a Director of Digital Initiatives and Services as part of a senior team responsible for the digital strategy and customer service across the NYPL. Apply here.
The DePaul University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist. View job posting here.
In this review, we feature Mike Skocko, a visual-arts educator at Valhalla High School in California. We had first heard of Mike through an esteemed recommendation from Adobe’s Tacy Trowbridge on Mike’s awesome gamification initiatives. Listen to Mike’s story below to learn about the questing system he adopted into his visual-art class to deliver curriculum in […]
