The NeDiMAH working groups “Digital Scholarly Editions” and “Using Large-Scale Text Collections for Research” are organising an expert meeting and a workshop (both on 21 November 2012) at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, in The Hague, The Netherlands. Proposals are invited before 10th of September 2012.
BackStory with the American History Guys is a nationally-distributed, weekly, one-hour public radio program hosted by three historians who explore the historical contexts of current events. BackStory seeks an energetic, thoughtful, and creative associate producer to join the show’s production team. This individual will work with two other associate producers and a technical director, under […]
To sum up my series of posts on different considerations for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage projects I thought it would be helpful to lay out a set of questions to ask when developing or evaluating projects. I think if a project has good answers to each of these four genres of questions it is well on its way toward […]
Teaching is a moral act. Our choice of course content is a moral decision, but so is the relationship we cultivate with students. Both physical and digital learning spaces require us to practice a politics of teaching, whether we’re conscious of it or not. However, traditional relationships between students and teachers come freighted with a […]
Last month I presented a paper entitled ‘Why Experiment? A Critical Analysis of the Values Behind Digital Scholarly Publishing’ at the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, France, July 4th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO. This presentation was part of the panel: ‘Publishing Cultural Studies, Now and in the Future’, with excellent papers by Ted Striphas and Mark […]
CFP: K’zoo 2013 Critical Remediation: Intersections of Medieval Studies and Media Theory « Digital Medievalist. This panel has been sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Columbia University, and we welcome one-page proposals (250-300 words) from scholars of all levels. They may be sent along with a completed participant information form (found athttp://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to Heather […]
Report on Economic Impact of Digital. Neil Beagrie has just announced the availability of a new report of the Economic Impact Evaluation of the UK Economic and Social Science Data Service (ESDS). This is an important contribution to a literature that is still far too sparse, and I believe it will be of interest to […]
The Key Questions of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects | Trevor Owens. To sum up my series of posts on different considerations for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage projects I thought it would be helpful to lay out a set of questions to ask when developing or evaluating projects. I think if a project has good answers to each of these […]
Scholars’ Lab. If you’re fluent in English and another language, and would love to help with the Neatline project, please consider contributing a translation for our Neatline plugins! We’re using a service called Transifex to manage translation work. To get started, just sign up for a free account on Transifex (or log in using your Twitter or […]
Thematic Child Theme Development: Suggested Resources | Practical E-Records. I am preparing to dive into deeper customization, but before doing that, I would like to list some resources that I found helpful in learning about Thematic and in customizing the site. Then, I will describe some of the steps I took to actually customize the […]
