The University of Southampton seeks to appoint a post-doctoral Research Assistant to work on the AHRC-funded research project ‘City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea’. The project will investigate place and identity in medieval Swansea, bringing together work on medieval texts, GIS mapping and 3D visualisation.
The Department of History at Northeastern University invites nominations and applications for a specialist in Chinese history since the 19th century to be appointed at the rank of assistant professor for Fall 2013. Successful candidates will advance the History and Asian Studies undergraduate programs and the innovative graduate world history program as well as college initiatives […]
The topic of appropriate standards for the evaluation of scholarly digital outputs has come up in conversation at my institution (the University of Canterbury, New Zealand) recently and I’ve realised I haven’t got a ready or simple answer, usually replying that such standards are extremely important because we need to ensure scholarly digital outputs attain […]
On Sunday the 2nd of September 2012, Lynn H. Nelson, an American Digital History Pioneer passed away. “I more or less stumbled into computer telecommunications in 1989,” he wrote telling us about his curiosity for the new digital humanities discipline, “rather late in life, but, led by Thomas Zielke, of the University of Oldenburg and list […]
CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet | The Fibreculture Journal Edited By Jason Wilson, Christian McCrea and Glen Fuller A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 – when Howard Rheingold […]
Job: Research Data Manager, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University | laurie n. taylor. Reporting to the Director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) (http://cdrs.columbia.edu/), a division of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, the Research Data Manager will work closely with the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, staff […]
CFP: Open Access Week 2012 Networked Researcher Blogging Unconference To register to participate in this blogging unconference, please use the form at the bottom of this page. Open Access Week 2012 will take place October 22-28 all over the world. Networked Researcher is convinced, as the Open Access Week web site says, that “Open Access” to information […]
The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature | .net magazine. One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – and to practise, you need to understand the tools available. In this article, I want to introduce you to […]
http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ Emory University Library has collected over ten million tweets from the Occupy Wall Street Movement, beginning on 13 October 2011. While tweets are public, they are not archived or available unless a third party collects them. With Emory’s collection, scholars can better understand the relationship between a movement and social media. In an age of digital […]
Tenure Track position: Director of Public History with DH Focus | HASTAC. The Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a director of the Public History concentration within the M.A. program in History to begin August 2013. We intend to appoint a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant/Associate Professor level. […]
