Long-time readers of this blog might remember that, a while ago, I pledged to do pretty much Open Everything. Last week, a friend in my department asked how I managed that without having people steal my ideas. It’s a tough question, and I’m still not certain whether my answer has more to do with idealist naïveté or […]
Online GIS Using ArcGIS.com | Spatial Humanities. Difficulty: Easy This is a multi-step process that will enable you to add data to a webmap, embed the webmap in your own website, and/or view the webmap on your smartphone using the free ESRI app. Required: Free ESRI personal account, shapefile of your study area (or a .csv, […]
Spatial Techniques for the Digital Humanities: Workshop Recap!. On Monday and Tuesday, August 13-14, the Smith Spatial Analysis Lab teamed up with Amherst College to host a workshop for Five College faculty entitled Spatial Techniques for the Digital Humanities. We had a great two days of discussion, learning, and collaboration, as workshop participants and instructors alike […]
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | National Endowment for the Humanities. Receipt Deadline September 25, 2012 for Projects Beginning May 2013 Brief Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively small grants to support the planning […]
Open Objects: Museums, Libraries, Archives and the Digital Humanities – get involved!. The short version: if you’ve got ideas on how museums, libraries and archives) and the digital humanities can inspire and learn from each other, it’s your lucky day! Go add your ideas about concrete actions the Association for Computers and the Humanities can take to bring […]
MOOC MOOC. Welcome to Hybrid Pedagogy’s MOOC MOOC! For those just joining us, the various materials of the course are available here, separated by day. Feel free to jump into previous days to explore what we’ve been up to, but each day is designed to function as its own self-contained experience, so you can also just […]
The information below is copied from the complete information on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s website. Position Title: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities (Multiple positions) Department/College/Unit: College of Arts & Sciences-0906 Requisition Number: 120608 Posting Open Date: 8-07-2012 Application Review Date: 9-25-2012 Posting Close Date: Open Until Filled Description of Work: Research and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Digital […]
This post is less a coherent argument than an outline of discussion topics I’m proposing for a workshop at NASSR2012 (a conference of Romanticists). But I’m putting this on the blog since some of the links might be useful for a broader audience. Also, we won’t really cover all this material, so the blog post […]
If you ever want to screw over a library, just walk up to any shelf, pick up any book, and put it on another shelf where it doesn’t belong. Eventually a librarian will stumble across it, see that it’s out of place, and pull it off the shelf. Until then, that book is hopelessly lost. […]
Shared Horizons – Call for Papers. Shared Horizons solicits applications to attend this two-day National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Symposium Date: Wednesday, April 10- Friday, April 12, 2012 Location: University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA Applications Due: November 10, 2012 The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), working in cooperation with theOffice of Digital […]
