Last month, I gave a presentation about paid crowdsourcing in the humanities at SDH-SEMI. Below are my notes. I The rhetorical model in the humanities is appreciation: we believe that by paying attention to an object of interest, we can explore it, find new dimensions within it, notice things about it that have never been […]
Abstract — Council on Library and Information Resources. by Christa Williford and Charles Henry Research Design by Amy Friedlander ISBN 978-1-932326-40-6 This report culminates two years of work by CLIR staff involving extensive interviews and site visits with scholars engaged in international research collaborations involving computational analysis of large data corpora. These scholars were the […]
game_philosophy@unimore: Call for Papers: Special issue of Philosophy & Technology’. CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PHILOSOPHY & TECHNOLOGY’S SPECIAL ISSUE ON PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER GAMES GUEST EDITORS Patrick Coppock, Olli Leino, Anita Leirfall Following the Sixth International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games in Madrid, Spain from 29th to 31st January 2012 (http://2012.gamephilosophy.org/), organized by […]
Washington and Lee Job Site. Within a team environment, the Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) will provide vision and energy in designing discovery and delivery pathways that facilitate access to the university’s digital resources and collections. The variety of digital content includes publications, images, video, and audio formats. The responsibilities include overall management of digital […]
Announcing the US Children’s Bureau Papers Project | cliotropic. When I’ve visited College Park to work in this collection, I’ve brought back gigabytes of images which I don’t want any future researcher to have to duplicate in her own research. So why not start a collaborative project where we can work together to build a […]
||| 臺灣大學數位典藏研究發展中心 (Research Center for Digital Humanities)|||. The Research center for Digital Humanities is committed to creating a complete digital research environment. The center also conducts research and continues to digitally preserve Taiwan’s important, unique and delicate cultural artifacts and historical resources. After the initial task of digitalization is complete, the center’s resources will be […]
Computer Programming and Literacy: An Annotated Bibliography » Nettework. With the recent uptick in the “everyone should code” movement, it seems that everyone’s now talking about computer programming as a new form of literacy. The terms by which people refer to the concept vary, but the central idea is shared: computational literacy; computational thinking; procedural […]
Berkman is Hiring! Project Manager, Lead Platform Manager, Senior Systems Architect, Junior Web Developer | Berkman Center. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has three new job listings for which we are now accepting applications. These technically-inclined leadership positions will provide the right candidates the chance to join Berkman’s dynamic community in our collaborative […]
Interview with Aharon Varady New technologies are naturally and generally controversial, but perhaps nowhere more so than in religious communities. For many religious leaders (and their followers), recent digital technologies are corrosive solvents of community life: the old ways are surely best. For others, new technologies offer opportunities to extend the reach of religious bodies, to […]
To begin: One question and one metaphor. The question is, what use is visualization to historians? How does this method add value to the work we do? The metaphor is accretion, the term geologists use to describe the building up of new soils through deposits of materials eroded elsewhere. Accretion works to describe the process […]
