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Author: Colleen Nugent

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Job: Director of Curation Services at Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) seeks to appoint a Director of Curation Services to maintain and develop a comprehensive approach to data management and digital preservation. The holder of this position will lead a team with responsibility for policy implementation and planning across the data lifecycle, including metadata standards, repository management, […]

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Resource: The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler

NINES welcomes our newest peer-reviewed resource, The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp. Originally a project of the Centre for Whistler Studies, the project is now supported by University of Glasgow. This online edition includes the Letters of James McNeill Whistler from 1855-1903,  as well as those of Anna McNeill […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Electronic Textual Cultures Lab

This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual and extra-textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: On Educational Data Mining

The Department of Education released a draft report about big data and education today. It’s called “Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics,” a title that’s unlikely to win any converts to the notion of a data-curious* view of learning. Part of what’s going to get stuck in the craw is that phrase […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities Congress 2012

Digital Humanities Congress 2012 – HRI – The University of Sheffield. The University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 6th – 8th September 2012. Proposals should be submitted in Microsoft Word or plain text format […]

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Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding

Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding. Interested in teaching or learning TEI? The slides, lecture notes, and other materials here were developed by the WWP for the workshops we teach, but they can also be a starting point for self-guided study. They are made available here for public reuse under a Creative Commons license. […]

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Resource: Visualizing Emancipation

Visualizing Emancipation. Visualizing Emancipation is an ongoing mapping project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, that sheds light on when and where men and women became free in the Civil War South. It tells the complex story of emancipation by mapping documentary evidence of black men and women’s activities–using official military correspondence, newspapers, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Call for papers: Ontology based annotation

11 avril 2012 : Call for papers : Preconference workshop – Ontology based annotation |Très Grand Equipement Adonis. The Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH) is a research network running from 2011 to 2015, funded by the European Science Foundation, ESF. The network will examine the practice of, and evidence for, […]

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Resource: New Plugins for a New Release

  New Plugins for a New Release – Omeka. Today, we offer a Spring bug fix release, version 1.5.1, which contains a few backend fixes (see release notes) and additional base languages contributed and translated by the Omeka community. See the current list of translations available, and if you don’t see your preferred language, sign […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: To Code or Not to Code?

Easter 1982 – thirty years ago! – was spent feeding my latest addiction. Like over a million others, I had acquired the Sinclair ZX 81, which popularised home computing in Britain. It had just one kilobyte of on-board memory; I soon invested in the upgrade to take it up to 16 kilobytes. You used your […]