Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Reports from Human-Computer Interaction Lab Annual Symposium at the University of Maryland

Reports from the 29th Annual Symposium, held May 22-23, 2012, are now available in the archive. Sopan, A. (May 2012) Monitoring Scientific Conference: Real-time Visualization and Retrospective Analysis of the Backchannel Conversation HCIL-2012-12 [Link to Report] Dunne, C., Shneiderman, B. (May 2012) Motif Simplification: Improving Network Visualization Readability with Fan and Parallel Glyphs HCIL-2012-11 [Link […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Vision of the Role and Future of Web Archives: The Web Archive in Today’s World

Editors’ Note: This piece consists of three posts. A PDF of full report available from netpreserve.org. From the first in the three-part series: Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective cultural past: every book, letter, or document was created, read and […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “Shock and Awe” Graphs in Digital Humanities

Over the past two years I’ve been noticing a rise in what I like to call “shock and awe” graphs in digital humanities, designed to overwhelm their audience and perhaps even to evoke doubt in one’s own abilities to compete in the same scholarly conversation. These graphics are both incredibly complex representations of data, and […]

News, Resources

Resource: Conference Notes from inaugural Australasian Association for Digital Humanities meeting in March 2012 by Mia Ridge

Editors’ Note: Mia Ridge has written extensive notes from the inaugural Astralasian Association for Digital Humanities meeting in March 2012: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. The following is a selection from Day 2. Keynote panel, ‘Big Digital Humanities?’ Day 2 was introduced by Craig Bellamy, and began with a keynote panel with Peter Robinson, Harold […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: 2012 Digital Library Federation Forum

The 2012 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum is seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions. The Forum is a working meeting where DLF members come together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. Participation is open to all those interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University

The University of Kentucky’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program invites proposals for a two day symposium devoted to discussion of the implications of a networked digital humanities. The symposium will bring together academic and professional audiences in order to rethink the taxonomy of humanities so that we emerge with a network of people and […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Knight News Challenge: Data

We’re excited to announce that the next Knight News Challenge will focus on data. Starting May 31 through June 20, we’ll be looking for ideas that help unlock the power of data, by collecting, processing, visualizing or otherwise making it available, understandable and actionable. Applicants – whether for-profit startups or non-profit ventures – will have […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: “Knowing your Public(s)—The Significance of Audiences in Public History”

In 2013 the National Council on Public History will meet at the Delta Ottawa City Centre, in the heart of downtown Ottawa, Canada. We welcome submissions from all areas of the field, including teaching, museums, archives, heritage management, tourism, consulting, litigation-based research, and public service… The committee encourages a wide variety of forms of conversation, […]

News, Resources

Resource: The Bastards Book of Ruby

The Bastards Book of Ruby is an introduction to programming and its practical uses for journalists, researchers, scientists, analysts, and anyone else whose job is to seek out, make sense from, and show the hard-to-find data.