The rapidly growing archive of early modern texts online presents significant new opportunities and necessities for the ways in which we organize it. Addressing such challenges raises important questions for both skeptics and boosters: Are new methods of organization resulting in virtual but less reliable finding aids? Do pressures of modernization encourage resource-strapped organizers of […]
A collection of best online collaboration tools from Robin Good, updated weekly.
The guide describes the techniques used in our Software Studies Lab to explore large image and video sets. The guide covers the following operations (software used is in brackets): – Download and setup free ImageJ software used to prepare images and video for visualizations, and create visualizations. – Automatically detect shots in a video (shotdetect). […]
The Digital Humanities (DH) Caucus of The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies seeks session topics and organizers for the 2013 meeting of ASECS, to be held April 4-7, 2013, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Have you been considering teaching an Omeka workshop at a conference or for a public or digital history class? Colleen Greene has shared a workshop assignment she created and taught for two hands-on Omeka sessions during the Fall 2011 semester.
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the Ph.D. – granting institution of CUNY, announces a postdoctoral fellowship for the academic year 2012-2013 in the area of digital humanities.
We are seeking to hire a Sr. Professional Research Assistant (research fellow) with a degree in Library and/or Information Science, or an arts, humanities or social science discipline in which the candidate has acquired significant research and practical expertise in the area of digital curation. The ideal candidate should provide evidence of past practical experience […]
The Penn Libraries is seeking an experienced, dynamic Medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies specialist to lead the effort to build a vital and enduring presence for the Schoenberg Center for Manuscript Studies at Penn.
The Linked Data Platform provides access to datasets from NPG published as linked data and made available through SPARQL services. The data are queryable interactively through a form interface and remotely through a service endpoint. NPG is making available a number of datasets for public access as linked data. These include data about articles published […]
We describe work-in-progress on the design and methodology of the Dynamic Linked Data Observatory : a framework to monitor Linked Data over an extended period of time. The core goal of our work is to collect frequent, continuous snapshots of a subset of the Web of Data that is interesting for further study and experimentation, […]
