H-Net Job Guide. Elite Network Shifts (ENS) is offering postdoctoral research positions for subprojects 2 and 3 (http://www.kitlv.nl/home/Projects?id=25). The main focus of those subprojects is the combination of social and complex network analysis with historical research on Indonesian elite rotation. ENS is open to discussion with strong candidates about a flexible allocation of tasks for each subproject; in particular, subproject 2 […]
bookworm Open Library bookworm updated for searching Open Library. bookworm is a collaboration between the Harvard Cultural Observatory, Open Library, and the Open Science Data Cloud. It enables you to graphically explore lexical trends across a huge digital library.
The Digital Humanities Winter Institute at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an extension of the highly-successful Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. DHWI provides an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to digital scholarship and mingle with like-minded colleagues through coursework, social events, […]
I have written before about some issues relating to RDA and RDF. Today I want to actually consider some things we should consider that should cause us to question the concept of “RDA in RDF.” For many decades we have been using relational databases to store our bibliographic data, bibliographic data that we create and exchange […]
There seems to be a lot of topic modelling going on at the moment. Any why not? Projects like Mining the Dispatch are demonstrating the possibilities. Tools like Mallet are making it easy. And generous DHers like Ted Underwood and Scott Weingart are doing a great job explaining what it is and how it works. I’ve talked briefly about using topic modelling to explore […]
It has been six months since Digital Humanities Now relaunched in version 2.0 through the support of the PressForward Project, funded by the Sloan Foundation. The first version, run between 2009 and 2010, was an automated survey of Twitter. Version 1.5 was a one-man operation by Dan Cohen to vet the material using traditional methods of […]
Digital Humanities Now will be offline next week, May 14-18, to close out the semester. Look for our return on May 22 with a new twice-weekly publication schedule for the summer.
Summary: Applications are invited for a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History at King’s College London, to participate in the ERC-funded project ‘China and the Historical Sociology of Empire’. The postholder will have a background in the digital humanities and will be working under the supervision of Dr Hilde De Weerdt (Principal Investigator), […]
Reporting to the Dean of Libraries, this senior administrative position is responsible for all activities related to digital library infrastructure development and content delivery, including the design and deployment and maintenance of digital repository and publishing platforms and related tool sets, representations of digital content, digital conversion, interoperability of digital platforms, archiving of datasets, and […]
Minnesota launched an online catalog of open-source books last month and will pay its professors $500 each time they post an evaluation of one of those books. (Faculty members elsewhere are welcome to post their own reviews, but they won’t be compensated.) Minnesota professors who have already adopted open-source texts will also receive $500, with […]
