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Editors’ Choice: Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections

Editors’ Note: “Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections” is a working group meeting at the National Council on Public History this weekend. Leading up to the event, participants have contributed a variety of proposals, discussions, reports,and analysis to the blog Visualizing the Past. Three of the most […]

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Resource: How to map with Google Fusion Tables

Google Fusion Tables (GFT) is a freely accessible tool for hosting and managing data tables, as well as creating visualizations and maps online. See the GFT tour and also theGFT Help Page. Requires a free Google account (use a regular Google account; avoid using a limited-access Google Apps account issued by an old school). Goal of this […]

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Job: CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships

CLIR is now accepting applications for six two-year postdoctoral fellowships in social science and science data curation to begin this summer. Review of applications begins May 1; applications will be accepted through June 30, 2012. The new fellows will be placed at Indiana University, Lehigh University, McMaster University, Purdue University,  UCLA, and the University of Michigan. […]

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Editors’ Choice: “New Aesthetic” Round-Up

David Berry, What Is the “New Aesthetic”? April 18, 2012 The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also Bridle 2012, Kaganskiy 2012, Sterling 2012). Many of these discussions have a particular existential flavour, questioning […]

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Resource: Learn DST

LearnDST.richmond.edu | . LearnDST is an instructional tool for creative people interested in learning the 5-step process (writing, recording, searching, producing, and publishing) of digital storytelling. It was developed to meet the “just-in-time” training needs required to create digital stories in the context of IT fluency. Learn more about digital storytelling (DST) here and learn how DST […]

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Job: Research Associate in Digital Humanities and Computational Criticism at Stanford

[Humanist] 25.891 jobs at Stanford and at Colorado-Boulder. Description The Literary Lab in the English Department seeks to fill a 75-100% FTE, one-year, fixed-term position (with possible renewal) in Digital Humanities and Computational Criticism, starting September 1, 2012. This position reports directly to the Faculty Director of the Lit Lab. The candidate is responsible for […]

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Resource: The new QueryPic (or what a difference an API makes)

discontents – The new QueryPic (or what a difference an API makes). It seems a bit late to be introducing the newest version of QueryPic. Folks are already using it to explore the contents of digitised newspapers made available through Troveand Papers Past. Some, like the National Library of New Zealand, Andrew S. Bowmanand the Carnamah Historical Society are already blogging about […]

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Editors’ Choice: Mapping Texts

Mapping Texts is a collaboration between the University of North Texas and Stanford University aimed at experimenting with new methods for finding and analyzing meaningful patterns embedded in massive collections of digital newspapers. Why do we think this is important?  Because, quite simply, historical newspapers are currently being digitized at a scale that is rapidly […]