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’ […]

CFPs & Conferences

CFParticipation: Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2021

It’s comin’ back around again! The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH21 dates have been confirmed: 19.–28.5.2021. Also make note of the application period: 9.-31.3.2021. 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 […]

CFPs & Conferences

CFPapers: Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, Spring 2021

On behalf of the Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, the Symposium Committee is circulating a call for papers for their Spring 2021 online symposium, Material Culture in an Increasingly Digital World. As the world around us transitions into an increasingly digital environment, the way we interact with material culture becomes less physical and […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Minna de honkoku, An Overview and Reflection

In a piece that I wrote for the Digital Orientalist last year, I compiled a list of digital resources for Japanese palaeography that I had learned about and used through my involvement in the “Tackling Pandemics in Early Modern Japan” transcription project organized by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the AI platform Minna […]

Reports

Report: Identify yourself!

On Friday, 22 January, the Digital Scholarship Team at the British Library held their first 21st Century Curatorship talk of 2021; Identify Yourself: (Almost) everything you ever wanted to know about persistent identifiers but were afraid to ask. This series of professional development talks and seminars is part of Digital Scholarship Staff Training Programme. They […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Which Generation Controls the Senate?

Which Generation Controls the Senate? Each tile represents a single US Senator. This chart is interactive –tap a tile hover over the tiles for name & age. About This Chart The data used to populate this chart is sourced from the ProPublica Congress API, which itself is sourced from the congress-legislators github project. Read full […]