Editors’ Choice: Current Developments in U.S. Copyright Law
This video discusses current developments in U.S. copyright law and how they push us in unanticipated directions. Read full post here.
Author: John Robert Land
Editors’ Choice: Publishing scholarly papers with, and on, Wikipedia
Wikipedia welcomes expert contributions, and is one of the most direct ways to promote public understanding of a subject area, but it isn’t always in researchers’ personal interest to contribute. It may seem as though any time spent writing for Wikipedia is less time to write the research papers which will advance their careers. One […]
Job: Lecturer in Digital History
As part of its continuing investment in excellence in teaching, research, innovation and external engagement, History Group in the School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire is seeking to appoint to the above permanent post, with effect from 1 July 2014. Read full post here.
Resource: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2014 Program
Overview and details of the sessions of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2014 conference. Please select a date or room to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available). Read full post here. CONTENT
Job: Project Head for Digital Art History
CASVA, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, seeks a research associate with a PhD in art history to serve as Project Head for Digital Art History for the academic years 2014-2016. Candidates should have proven experience with digital art history projects and be able to provide […]
Opportunity: Thesis Text-mining Project Officer, British Library
In this newly created short term project role the main objective is to explore ways of using digital material to provide further research opportunities and to understand what the potential copyright challenges might be. The successful applicant will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills to enable them to consult experts both in […]
Editors’ Choice: “Digital Culture is Mass Culture”: An interview with Digital Conservator Dragan Espenschied
At the intersection of digital preservation, art conservation and folklore you can find many of Dragan Espenschied’s projects. After receiving feedback and input from Dragan for a recent post on interfaces to digital collections and geocities I heard that he is now stepping into the role of digital conservator at Rhizome. To that end, I’m […]
Report: Critical Code Studies Working Group
During the past month, I’ve had the pleasure of coordinating the Critical Code Studies Working Group (CCSWG) that Mark Marino and Jeremy Douglass organized. Sponsored by the HaCCS Lab (of which HASTAC is an affiliate), the conversations in all of the discussion threads have been really amazing and exciting — as of March 20, 2014, the […]
Opportunity: Fellowship in 3D Visualization, Colonial Williamsburg
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is pleased to invite applications for short-term residential fellowships at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, with its distinguished collection of primary and secondary sources relating to eighteenth-century Williamsburg, the colonial Chesapeake, African American studies, decorative arts and material culture through 1830, archaeology, architectural history, digital history, and historic preservation. An […]
CFP: The (Digital) Lives of Cities
In Programmed Visions, Wendy Chun suggests that “the call to map may be the most obscuring of all: by constantly drawing connections between data points, we sometimes forget that the map should be the beginning, rather than the end, of the analysis” (177). With this year’s MMLA conference theme of “The Lives of Cities,” the […]