We here at Digital Humanities Now are thrilled to invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for the spring semester, 2013. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, and suggest content for publication in DHNow and the Journal of […]
Editors’ Note: There were a number of recent posts discussing the use of text-mining and visualizations in humanities research. A few, offering a variety of perspectives, are presented below. Lev Manovich, the meaning of statistics and digital humanities “Given that production of summaries is the key characteristics of human culture, I think that such traditional summaries […]
To assist libraries in informing the public about e-book lending practices, the American Library Association (ALA) released today the “ALA E-book Media & Communications Toolkit,” a set of materials that will support librarians in taking action in their communities. E-Book Media and Communications Toolkit | Transforming Libraries.
Crowdcrafting is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It is a joint effort between theOpen Knowledge Foundation and Citizen Cyberscience Centre, It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. Crowdcrafting is there to help researchers, civic hackers […]
The overall goal of TEXTUS is to provide an open-source platform through which scholars and students are able to re-use the vast and expanding amount of digitised cultural heritage material now available through portals such as the Internet Archive, Wikisource and Project Gutenberg. The aim is to enable scholarly communities to easily establish their own […]
The title of the colloquium is “Transitions and Translations: New Approaches to the Moving Image.” Please find the full CFP below. The event is scheduled to take place between March 1-2, 2013. Deadline for submission is December 5th. via FSAC-ACÉC Colloquium | Grad/Aperture.
Re:Humanities 2013 explores various aspects of multimodal storytelling and argument. We seek undergraduates who are exploring cross-platform approaches to course projects, digital scholarship, and student collaborations. DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday, December 7th, 2012 (Midnight GMT) Re:Humanities CFP Deadline EXTENDED to Dec. 7. | Tri-Co Digital Humanities.
We are excited to announce a call for full length papers for a special issue of Computer Music Journal, with a deadline of 21st January 2013, for publication in Spring of the following year. The issue will be guest edited by Alex McLean, Julian Rohrhuber and Nick Collins, and will address themes surrounding live coding […]
The goal of this document is to provide a basic tool for helping organizations manage and mitigate digital preservation risks. This document does not deal with broader issues related to collection development practices, critical policy framework decisions, general issues involving staffing or particular workflows or life cycle issues. Those are all critical, and in many […]
Free access to the in-progress manuscript of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web via the Open Feedback Publishing System is provided so you can interact with the authors and community and provide your feedback in real-time. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web – OFPS – O’Reilly Media.
