CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Topics in the Digital Humanities Book Series from U. of Illinois Press

Humanities computing is undergoing a redefinition of basic principles by a continuous influx of new, vibrant, and diverse communities or practitioners within and well beyond the halls of academe. These practitioners recognize the value computers add to their work, that the computer itself remains an instrument subject to continual innovation, and that competition within many […]

Editors' Choice

Introducing the Journal of Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Now is pleased to announce the Journal of Digital Humanities (ISSN 2165-6673), forthcoming in March 2012. In this comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal we will feature the best scholarship, projects, and tools produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter. The Journal of Digital Humanities will offer expanded coverage of the digital humanities in three […]

News, Resources

Resource: Anvil Academic aims to provide platform for digital scholarship

Anvil Academic aims to provide platform for digital scholarship | Inside Higher Ed. Two well-known organizations are teaming up with a handful of colleges and universities to try to change that by building a flexible platform where digital humanists could have their research published and certified that the work has passed through well-respected editorial gantlets. […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding Opportunity: PhD studentship at the Royal College of Art in London

PhD studentship – Develop sophisticated digital timelines of cultural data within an academic-industrial partnership | arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts. PhD studentship – Develop sophisticated digital timelines of cultural data within an academic-industrial partnership A PhD studentship is available at the Royal College of Art in London, funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences […]

News, Resources

Resource and Opportunity: The School of Data

Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » The School of Data. Here’s a fantastic initiative by the Open Knowledge Foundation. (Disclosure: I’m on the OKF’s Advisory Board). What lies behind it is an awareness that there’s a huge — and growing — skills gap in data-analysis, visualisation, etc. At this stage, the OKF is seeking volunteers […]

News, Resources

Resource: American Museum of Natural History Presents Digitized Manuscripts of Charles Darwin

American Museum of Natural History Presents Digitized Manuscripts of Charles Darwin | American Museum of Natural History. In celebration of Darwin Day, the American Museum of Natural History is officially unveiling the first phase of the Darwin Manuscripts Project—the most comprehensive catalog of Charles Darwin’s scientific manuscripts ever compiled. The project is an ambitious online […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Communication or Discovery: Which Approach for Public History?

It strikes me that there are two, somewhat overlapping, reasons that we do visualization. They are a method of communication and a method of discovery. Visualization for Communication Visualizations are methods of communication, ways of communicating something that we already understand. In this case, things like Tuftee’s work on presenting data and information is squarely about communicating known […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Associate Director for Digital Initiatives at McGill University Library

Provides leadership and coordinates digital library initiatives and programs for all libraries. Works collaboratively with university faculty and administration to develop and advance digital initiative programs including web-based services, information technologies, and programs supporting the integration of digital collections and digital library services. Directs the work of librarians, programmers and staff with expertise in development […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Special Projects Librarian, Library Information Technology

The Special Projects Librarian assists the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (AUL for LIT) in the coordination of major digital initiatives within the University Library. The Special Projects Librarian works with the AUL for LIT, as well as with key staff, in the delivery and management of digital library content and services, and will […]

News, Resources

Resource: Converting 2-mode networks to 1-mode networks

Say you’re interested in patterns of communication between individuals who are members of multiple organizations (like for instance historical societies), or artefact types across multiple sites. You might like to map the network between these individuals and those organizations to understand something of how information flows in that world, how social norms permeate, or ideologies […]