To find out whether search-by-example works, we’ve designed a five-minute study around three Shakespearean themes. There are three systems: one search, and two different example-based ones. Participants are shown an example of a theme, and asked to use a system to find as many relevant results as they can in five minutes. The systems and theme […]
This post introduces a new series of blog posts on building capacity in the digital humanities at small liberal arts colleges. How do you find digital humanists who’ve never heard of the digital humanities? Many small liberal arts colleges are now facing this quandary as they try to build capacity in the digital humanities on their […]
Position Title:Program Coordinator Requisition Number:400629747(Apply at hr.duke.edu.) Location:Duke University, Durham, NC Closing date: Please submit all resumes by August 10th This position is 40 hours a week (including full benefits) and is fully funded until June 30, 2014 and may be extended beyond that time contingent on grant funding opportunities and/or partnership opportunities with other units […]
DH Internationally: Dispatches from Hamburg | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. by Jennifer Guiliano – July 24, 2012 …More internationally-speaking, the conference was a continuing salvo in the rapid spread of digital humanities, both to individuals but also to entirely new professional and institutional organizations. The Japanese Digital Humanities Organization joined the Alliance […]
The Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies is looking to help facilitate the work of students and scholars by aiding in the development of research-oriented databases related to scholarship in religion and new media. Proposals are invited for database projects to be housed on the “Researcher’s Toolbox” section of the Network for New Media, Religion and […]
“…an online collection of resources for the learning and teaching of digital preservation – collected, organized and accessible through one place…”
What topics should be covered in the 2nd ed. of the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities?
We are now advertising a very interesting job opportunity in Digital Media in the journalism department at Lehigh University.We are looking for a tenure-track assistant professor — newly-minted Ph.D. or a few years in rank — who is dedicated to research and teaching on how digital and mobile media are transforming community and social life. An ability to […]
Big data and uncertainty in the humanities September 22, 2012, The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas. This conference seeks to address the opportunities and challenges humanistic scholars face with the ubiquity and exponential growth of new web-based data sources (e.g. electronic texts, social media, and audiovisual materials) and digital methods […]
I recently attended the Wikimania conference here in Washington, DC. I really can’t express how amazing it was to be a Metro ride away from more than 1,400 people from 87 countries who were passionate about creating a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. It was my first Wikimania, […]
