ProQuest‘s Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Gale‘s Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) and its Burney 17th- and 18th-Century Newspaper Collection are transforming the landscape of eighteenth-century scholarship and teaching. While these commercial databases are well known for affording unprecedented access to early modern works, their full potential has yet to be realized. Aimed at advancing […]
The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. We invite submissions on any research broadly related […]
At the 2012 MLA, conference attendees packed many sessions on the digital humanities (DH), reflecting the growing interest in this domain. Yet many newcomers to digital humanities lack opportunities to connect with the DH community, get help from experienced practitioners with conceptualizing and launching a project, or begin building the skills they need to realize their projects. This four-hour preconvention workshop […]
This updated post is written for cultural heritage professionals seeking a quick-start guide for those interested in learning more about what the digital humanities are and what kinds of projects, tools, and possibilities are open and available. I also want to contribute to the current conversation (which you can join as well), that seeks to […]
This is part 3 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in GeoServer and Neatline. In part 1 of this series, we used ArcMap to convert a static image into a georeferenced .tiff file. In part 2, we post-processed the file with gdal to remove the […]
The Cornell University Library is seeking a Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator. Reporting to the AUL for Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services (DSPS), the Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator will provide leadership in conceptualizing and implementing new digital scholarship and preservation initiatives with a focus on needs assessment, requirements analysis, and business planning. Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator […]
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the newly established Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, which will run for the first time in the Winter Term 2012. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar, is organised in association with the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. We invite submissions on research […]
A collection of scholarly reflections from doctoral candidates working within the digital humanities at University College Cork (PDF).
As part of our efforts to produce a crowdsourced digital humanities publication, volunteer Editors-at-Large helped us publish Digital Humanities Now over the summer. They did such a great job that we are currently recruiting additional Editors-at-Large for the rest of 2012. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing aggregated RSS feeds […]
Regularly scheduled Tuesday and Thursday postings will resume after Labor Day. Happy First Week of Class/Last Week of Break!
