One of the ironies of the Internet age is that traditional standards for accessibility have changed radically. Intelligent members of the public refer to undigitized manuscripts held in a research library as “locked away”, even though anyone may study the well-cataloged, well-preserved material in the library’s reading room. By the standard of 1992, institutionally-held manuscripts […]
The digital portal Europeana opens up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. The massive dataset is the descriptive information about Europe’s digitised treasures. For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose – […]
Available to download as a PDF or view on Issuu. We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.
The ACH is very pleased to announce a partnership with DHCommons meant to broaden our successful digital humanities mentorship program. The ACH’s mentorship program matches newcomers to the digital humanities with experienced advisors in the field for job market advice, networking, and professional guidance.If you would like to participate, visit the DHCommons sign-up page and complete the ACH Mentoring […]
The Centre for the Humanities and the Descartes Centre at Utrecht University, in cooperation with the digital Humanities platform of Utrecht Univeristy, are launching an annual fellowship to promote intellectual exchange and collaboration in the domain of the Digital Humanities. The Digital Humanities, also known as Humanistic Informatics or Humanities Computing are a fast-growing field […]
Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, based at the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (http://ehumanities.nl). Applications for 2013 now open! These visiting fellowships are intended to enable scholars working in computational humanities to conduct research and to participate in the academic life of the eHumanities Group of the KNAW. Visiting fellowships […]
The University of Southampton seeks to appoint a post-doctoral Research Assistant to work on the AHRC-funded research project ‘City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea’. The project will investigate place and identity in medieval Swansea, bringing together work on medieval texts, GIS mapping and 3D visualisation.
The Department of History at Northeastern University invites nominations and applications for a specialist in Chinese history since the 19th century to be appointed at the rank of assistant professor for Fall 2013. Successful candidates will advance the History and Asian Studies undergraduate programs and the innovative graduate world history program as well as college initiatives […]
The topic of appropriate standards for the evaluation of scholarly digital outputs has come up in conversation at my institution (the University of Canterbury, New Zealand) recently and I’ve realised I haven’t got a ready or simple answer, usually replying that such standards are extremely important because we need to ensure scholarly digital outputs attain […]
On Sunday the 2nd of September 2012, Lynn H. Nelson, an American Digital History Pioneer passed away. “I more or less stumbled into computer telecommunications in 1989,” he wrote telling us about his curiosity for the new digital humanities discipline, “rather late in life, but, led by Thomas Zielke, of the University of Oldenburg and list […]
