CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: International Data Curation Conference, Feb 24-27, 2014, San Francisco

*************************************************************** “Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society” 24-27 February 2014 Omni San Francisco Hotel, California Street, San Francisco, USA *************************************************************** #idcc14 Call for Papers The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) brings together data and information creators, managers, users, researchers, and teachers. The IDCC14 Programme Committee invites submissions to the […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Tenure Track Assistant Professor of History (Digital Humanities) (IUPUI)

The Department of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) seeks a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in Digital Humanities, to begin August 1, 2014. We are looking for a scholar with a strong academic background in historical research. Period and area of specialization are open. Ph.D. required by August 1, 2014. http://www.digitalhistorians.org/2013/08/20/tenure-track-assistant-professor-of-digital-humanities-iupui/

Job Announcements, News

Job: Technology Specialist, Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) seeks a Technology Specialist to join its growing team and to further DPLA’s mission to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this mission and the drive to accomplish it over time in a collaborative spirit both […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Does Digital Scholarship Have a Future?

Twenty years into the transformation initiated by the World Wide Web, we have grown accustomed to a head-spinning pace of technological and social change. Innovations that would have amazed us ten years ago are now merely passing news, as transient as a tweet. Music, video, and journalism have been profoundly altered—and we have grown used […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Kindred Britain: A sign of our times

Today marks the public release of Kindred Britain, a new interactive scholarly work that explores the role of family in British culture. Integrating geospatial, temporal, and network information visualization, this project attempts to demonstrate the genealogical interconnectedness of the British elite. In doing so it expands the notion of Britishness, and the notion of society and […]

Announcements, News

Launch: Visual Culture of the American Civil War

The historical record of the American Civil War includes a vast amount of visual material—photographs, illustrated news periodicals, comic publications, individually-published prints, almanacs, political cartoons, illustrated envelopes, trade cards, greeting cards, sheet music covers, money, and more. The era’s visual media heralded an unprecedented change in the production and availability of pictorial media in everyday […]

Editors' Choice

Like DHNow? Why Not Help Create It? Calling for Editors-at-Large Fall 2013!

We here at Digital Humanities Now invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for Fall, 2013. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, and suggest content for publication in DHNow and the Journal of Digital Humanities. Editors-at-Large are critical to helping DHNow reflect […]