“Game changing” is a term we hear a lot in digital humanities. I have used it myself. But try, as I was asked to do for a recent talk at Brown University’s Ancient Religion, Modern Technology workshop, to name a list of truly game-changing developments wrought by digital humanities. I come up short. Struggling with this problem, […]
ETD 2012 – Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters, Workshops. 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations Lima, Peru, September 12, 13 and 14 First Announcement Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Workshops On behalf of The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and the […]
JISC Digitisation Programme » New JISC funding opportunties. JISC has issued 5 Invitations to Tender for Digital Infrastructure Reports. Bidders must have knowledge of the topic area and must be experienced in producing high quality reports. These are open Invitations to Tender and anyone may bid. 5 Invitations to Tender for Reports on: • Advantages […]
By Daniel Chamberlain Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research
You Asked For It: Four Exciting New Viewshare Features « The Signal: Digital Preservation. Last week we quietly launched several significant improvements to Viewshare, our free and open platform for cultural heritage organizations to create interfaces to digital collections. There are a ton of major and small additions to the software, but I wanted to […]
Georeferencing: help us place our digitised maps. Are you interested in local history and old maps? Would you like to explore historic places in London and across the UK? If so, you can help the British Library. You can quickly create an online 3-D visualisation of these rare documents (with Google Earth) and compare the […]
JISC Digitisation Programme » JISC vacancy: Programme Manager Digitisation. JISC is advertising for a post of Programme Manager – e-Content: Digitisation. The post holder will be responsible for managing a range of different types of e-content projects taking place in universities and other organisations that are either digitising content or developing existing digital collections to […]
*Open Peer Review for the Journal of Digital Humanities is now closed. Thank you for your contributions.* Digital Humanities Now is pleased to announce the open access Journal of Digital Humanities (ISSN 2165-6673), forthcoming in March 2012. Select pieces are available for open peer review from February 14-29. We invite and encourage you to read, view, […]
I chanced across an discussion last night on twitter which aligns with a problem I have been considering – how can the digital humanities include social sciences and science, if at all? This relates to the question of creating an undergraduate curriculum of some sort in Digital Humanities which would be truly interdisciplinary, that would work for […]
The SURFfoundation has released Users, Narcissism and Control—Tracking the Impact of Scholarly Publications in the 21st Century. Here’s an excerpt: This report explores the explosion of tracking tools that have accompanied the surge of web based information instruments. Is it possible to monitor ‘real-time’ how new research findings are being read, cited, used and transformed […]
