The Stanford University Library in partnership with the Department of History seeks a digital historian for the position of Academic Technology Specialist (ATS). The ATS collaborates with faculty and graduate students in the History Department at Stanford University, developing and deploying innovative technological solutions in support of research, pedagogy, and publication. This position requires an […]
The programming of the Digital Learning Team at The Field Museum is currently two-fold: on-site experiences that leverage scientific content and enhancement/acquisition of technology skills and off-site experiences that function as independent products for learners. An average of 6-7 on-site experiences take place annually while at least 1-2 independent products are being pursued. via The […]
Join the team at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. We are seeking an experienced research programmer who will provide technical expertise for research projects in the digital humanities. The Research Programmer will work with senior MITH staff to develop new methods and tools for the exploration and […]
The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) project invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship valued at $32,500 per year for up to two years. The successful applicant will be expected to join the project on site in Victoria, BC, and work closely with the project director, developers, and research assistants in the next phase of […]
I’m venturing into the world of open-source by releasing a program I used in a recent research project. The program tries to tackle one of the fundamental problem facing many digital humanists who analyze text: the gap between manual “close reading” and computational “distant reading.” In my case, I was trying to study the geography […]
Currently there is a rather wonderful raproachment between historical geographers and historians; with archivists and librarians (as usual) providing the meat, gristle and spicy practical critique. This is brilliant. These are cognate disciplines which need to be in constant dialogue. The habits of mind and analytical tools of geographers need to inform our understanding of […]
A new version of WordSeer is in the works. It’s been guided by the advice of our long-suffering literature-scholar collaborators. And by the tales of frustration and trial-and-error of the students of the Hamlet class who tried to use WordSeer to analyze parts of the play. We also thought hard about the text analysis process as a series of […]
Swiss Digitized Newspapers provides online access to titles digitized by the Swiss National Library and its cantonal partners. At present (July 2012) some of the available newspapers are: Confédéré 1861 – Le Journal du Valais 1848 L’Observateur 1846 – 1847 Le Courrier du Valais 1843 – 1844, 1849 – 1857 L’Écho des Alpes 1839 – 1847 […]
Using and building upon the successes of Hacking the Academy, Hack(ing) School(ing) will be a curated, multimedia “book” or “volume” or “collection.” We specifically invite you to submit posts, articles, artifacts, etc. that you believe would be relevant to a collection on Hack(ing) School(ing). What this book/volume/collection ultimately looks like is still to-be-determined; maybe it’s more than one “thing.” […]
Pundit is a novel semantic annotation and augmentation tool. It enables users to create structured data while annotating web pages. Annotations span from simple comments to semantic links to web of data entities (as Freebase.com and Dbpedia.org), to fine granular cross-references and citations. Pundit can be configured to include custom controlled vocabularies. In other words, […]
