So much of the content of digital humanities begins in the analog world: documents that are scanned and indexed; maps that are recast in GIS; quantities that are converted to machine-readable tables. Although we tend to focus on the final product — the digital construction viewed over the web — we remain cognizant of this […]
“Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions,” edited by Willard McCarty, is now available from Open Book Publishers.
This search facility allows the server-side API to be queried and the results refined and passed to both Zotero and Voyant Tools. It also allows you to use a more like this facility to identify linguistically similar trials.
Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture seeks works generally considered “nontraditional” in that their nontraditionality is established by the eschewing of conceptual boundaries that separate the humanities, and specifically rhetoric, from the rest of the academic world. We encourage submissions that take risks, to such an extent that “risk” is recognized as the […]
Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI’s Fall 2012 Membership Meeting in Washington, DC on Dec. 10-11. Project briefings are 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information. A limited number of project briefings […]
The MLA will launch its new scholarly communication platform, MLA Commons, at the 2013 convention in Boston. Designed to facilitate active member-to-member communication, MLA Commons will support the work of divisions and discussion groups, offer a platform for the publication of scholarship in new formats, and much more. The Committee on Information Technology and others […]
The Committee of the Museums Computer Group is excited to announce that our annual conference Museums on the Web – UKMW12 – will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on 30 November 2012.
Humanities in the Digital Age by Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III ….As humanities chairs with a long involvement in digital issues, we have seen clearly that top-down budget cuts are often justified with arguments about how digital technologies are driving change in higher education…. So we believe that humanities faculty members, chairs, and […]
The OKFestival [Open Knowledge Festival], the biggest open data and knowledge event ever held, has come to an end. And what a great week it was. On Tuesday we hacked on a number of Finnish cultural datasets and the 20 million openly licensed objects in Europeana. (writeup coming soon!) On Wednesday we met with a […]
Fordham University Graduate English Association’s interdisciplinary conference “Remembering, Forgetting, Imagining: The Practices of Memory,” March 1-2, 2013, Fordham University, New York, NY. Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2012.
