Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: That GIS Button

Have you noticed the GIS button on our main page? It will lead you to gis.periegesis.org – our very own ArcGIS Hub Site. “An ArcGIS what?” or “a what Hub Site?”, I can almost hear some of you say! Let me clarify… Read full post here.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Putting Three Meals on the Table

Visualizing Indian curries and sabzis to help your family cook healthier. At Gramener, we each took up a personal data challenge over the month of December. Since my family at home had been fighting over how to share efforts in the kitchen, I chose to track the food we cooked at home across three meals […]

Job Announcements, Uncategorized

Job: Cultural Analytics or Digital Literary History, Washington University

As part of a broad initiative in Data Analytics and Digital Technology, Washington University in St. Louis seeks a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Cultural Analytics or Digital Literary Studies (start date July 1, 2021). Depending upon research area and educational background, the primary appointment will be […]

Uncategorized

Resource: Digital Ottoman Studies, A New Force in Ottoman and Turkish Studies

In early 2021, a new platform, Digital Ottoman Studies (DOS), was established with the aim of contributing to digital humanities from the perspective of Ottoman Empire and Turkish studies. The Istanbul-based project facilitates data access for researchers by collecting projects, archives, databases, manuscript collections, events, and more through an English and Turkish-language website. The platform […]

Announcements

Announcement: Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H21

It’s comin’ back around again! The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH21 dates have been confirmed: 19–28.5.2021. The event will be organized as an online hackathon. As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, the event will be truly international welcoming applications from all over Europe. The NewsEye project will also have a strong presence at the hackathon. Read full post here.

CFPs & Conferences

CFPapers: Digital Classicist London 2021

Digital Classicist London invites proposals for the summer 2021 seminar, which will run online on alternate Friday afternoons through the summer, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies. All presentations will be live-cast and archived on Youtube. Digital Classicist understands “Classics” to refer to foundational texts and heritage of the whole world, and this year […]

Editors' Choice

Who Will Shape the Future of Data Visualizations?

I’ll start off with a confession — when I was a kid, I had no idea what data visualization was. Or, should I be totally frank? Growing up, I didn’t even know the meaning of “data.” It wasn’t until my early teens that I started understanding the meaning and value of “data.” After that, it […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Accountability and Reconciliation, Higher Ed’s Fraught History of Slavery 

The aftermath of the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and others has led many colleges and universities to consider how the legacies of slavery and systemic racism have shaped and impacted their institutions. As more institutions consider the lasting effects of slavery, there are lessons and strategies that could be learned from institutions that […]

Job Announcements

Job: Assistant Professor Digital Humanities, Durham University

The Department of English Studies at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor (Teaching). We welcome applications from those with teaching interests in the field of Digital Humanities and we are particularly eager to hear from applicants with a focus on developing online learning and with scholarly interests […]

Reports

Report: Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice

Over the past year British Library staff have contributed to the AHRC-funded project”Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship”. Led by James Baker, University of Sussex, the project set out to demonstrate the value of corpus linguistic methods and computational tools to the study of legacies of catalogues and cultural institutions’ […]