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Editors’ Choice: Teaching and Learning Multimodal Communications

For Cinema Journal in 2009, Tara McPherson wrote the following: The “we” in McPherson’s sentence may be interpreted as media studies practitioners in particular or humanities practitioners in general. And in 2012, I took her statement seriously as a challenge to teaching and learning at the graduate level. That year, I designed and taught a graduate seminar […]

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CFP: Focus Issue on Digital Scholarship, International Journal of Digital Libraries

International Journal of Digital Libraries Special Issue on Digital Scholarship Digital scholarship, or “cyberscholarship” – that based on data and computation – is radically reshaping knowledge discovery, creation, analysis, presentation and dissemination in many topical areas. Scientists are using vast amounts of data to explore galaxies, measure stresses on earth systems, create genetic profiles of […]

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CFP: Special Issue on Irish Studies and Digital Humanities

Upcoming Call for Papers: Special Issue on Irish Studies and Digital Humanities [Deadline: January 15th, 2014] In 2012, Stanley Fish posed the question: does the digital humanities offer new and better ways to realize traditional humanities goals? Or does the digital humanities completely change our understanding of what a humanities goal (and work in the humanities) might […]

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CFP: Toronto 2014 – Digitizing the Medieval Archive

March 27-29, 2014 With keynote speakers: David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University) Caroline Macé (KU Leuven) Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library) Discussion about the digitization of archival fonds and library holdings pertaining to the Middle Ages boasts a wide profusion both in online settings and in real time. As […]

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Editors’ Choice: How The Rainbow Color Map Misleads

Colors are perhaps the visual property that people most often misuse in visualization without being aware of it. Variations of the rainbow colormap are very popular, and at the same time the most problematic and misleading. The rainbow color map is based on the colors in the light spectrum, and is sometimes done correctly, sometimes […]

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Editors’ Choice: Brick and Mortar Pieces of Catholic Chicago

Chicago has always been a preeminently Catholic city. From the encampment French-Haitian Creole Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable first built upon Lake Michigan’s swampy banks in the 1770s to the steeples that continue to tower over the city of neighborhoods today, Catholicism has been integral to the city’s development. Parishes have structured neighborhoods, priests have […]

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Resource: The Museum System API

This project is really for technical staff or developers who work with The Museum System (TMS).  The code is a C# .NET WCF service application that allows access to curatorial data using JSON web services.