Blog, Editors' Choice

DHNow: 2014 in Review

by Lisa Rhody – December 22, 2014 As the year draws to a close and as our staff begins its winter recess, this seems like an ideal time to take a brief look back at Digital Humanities Now in 2014. We’ve had a remarkable year thanks to the hard work of a dedicated staff, a motivated and […]

Blog

Prototyping a Curated Scholarly Publication: Digital Humanities Now

by Joan Fragaszy Troyano May 9th, 2014 This post is part of a series that reflects on three years of research on sourcing and circulating scholarly communication on the open web. In the coming weeks we will share our discoveries, processes, and code developed through rapid prototyping and iterative design: the PressForward plugin for WordPress; the collaboratively-edited weekly publication Digital Humanities Now; […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “Discovering Scholarship on the Open Web: Communities and Methods”

Online publications that aggregate content from a wide variety of sources have become increasingly valuable to readers and publishers. The academy, however, is still unsure how to efficiently identify, collect, survey, evaluate, and redistribute the valuable scholarly writing published both formally and informally on the open web. Fortunately, some scholarly communities are developing methods to […]

News, Resources

Resource: The top 20 data visualisation tools

From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda’s round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – […]

News, Reports

Report: UCLDH: The Hub of a (virtual) Network

My recent trip to University College London was a great success* and has left me with a ton of information to digest, ideas to play around with, and questions to ask. (It also left me with a long illness, which is why this first post is extremely late in the making). One of the main […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: U.Va. Digital Humanities Training Program Establishes New Network

An innovative digital humanities training program for graduate students at the University of Virginia has helped spawn a new international network of programs that prepare humanities students for careers within and beyond the traditional academic job market. The Praxis Network, which debuted last week, consists of graduate and undergraduate programs at several colleges and universities, each […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow (History/Digital Humanities) Boston College

The History Department at Boston College invites applications for a post-doctoral teaching fellowship to teach in the History Core program. Core courses cover the period from approximately 1500 to the present, introducing all undergraduates to a foundational knowledge of modern history and key historiographical debates. All specializations except American history are welcome to submit applications, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 1 & 2

An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 1 I came to NDIIPP expecting to hear that institutions and the public weren’t prioritizing digital preservation, and that the next wave of librarians would need to shout from the rooftops to raise awareness that digital objects are facing mass obsolescence. I expected a clear, clean outline […]