Historic documents often contain handwriting, old fonts, or other text formats that OCR software can’t handle. We need humans–from volunteers to paid staff–to read the document images and transcribe what they see into databases which can be searched, analyzed, crawled, and used by researchers. Until now those efforts have required organizations either to outsource indexing […]
Abstract We report here trends in the usage of “mood” words, that is, words carrying emotional content, in 20th century English language books, using the data set provided by Google that includes word frequencies in roughly 4% of all books published up to the year 2008. We find evidence for distinct historical periods of positive […]
For the first time, significant portions of the New York Public Library’s digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute. ApiService.
Tabula lets you upload a (text-based) PDF file into a simple web interface and magically pull tabular data into CSV format. Tabula is free and available under the MIT open-source license. Introducing Tabula – Features – Source: An OpenNews project.
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) invites biomedical and humanities scholars to join us in investigating data, biomedicine, and the digital humanities. Shared Horizons – Data, BioMedicine, and the Digital Humanities.
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites applications for the position of publications liaison, a volunteer position to help increase the visibility of the association’s journals and other publications. Help us promote DH work! | Association for Computers and the Humanities.
JavaScript developer needed for digital humanities scholarly article, to be published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide as part of our Mellon Foundation-funded “Digital Humanities and Art History” initiative. JOB: JavaScript Developer.
The Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University, announces a postdoctoral fellowship with support from the Henry Luce Foundation to begin Aug. 1, 2013, renewable for two subsequent years. The fellow will assist the Director of the Ming Qing Women’s Writings Digital Archive and Database (http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing), Prof. Grace S. Fong, in executing, managing, and developing […]
The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks applicants for the full-time academic staff position of Administrative Program Manager II (Deputy Director). Preference for familiarity with recent developments in digital humanities; administrative or supervisory experience; experience with at least one of the following: graphic design, web design, or social media H-Net Job […]
The American Historical Association is seeking a Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives. The Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives will oversee the AHA’s communications with members and other constituencies. AHA Today: Hiring: AHA Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives.
