Report: SDH/SEMI 2012 Conference Notes
Notes from Geoffrey Rockwell from the SDH/SEMI 2012 (Programme) at Congress in Waterloo, Ontario.
Author: DH Now
CFP: Early American Culture and the Digital Humanities – Society of Early Americanists
This panel will consider the implications of the digital humanities, broadly defined, for the study of early American culture. What particular challenges and/or opportunities do the digital humanities offer scholars in the field? How might some of the foundational conceptions that help structure and organize the study of early American writing and culture need to […]
CFP: Conference on Digital Engagement in Archaeology: Strategies & Evaluation Methods
8th – 9th November at UCL Institute of Archaeology Organisers: Chiara Bonacchi (UCL Institute of Archaeology) & Daniel Pett (The British Museum) Under the auspices of: the Archaeology and Communication Research Network (ACRN) and the Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology (CASPAR). The organisers invite 2 types of papers: a) Papers presenting frameworks […]
Resource: Junar · The Open Data Platform
Junar provides a cloud-based platform for opening data to drive innovation, collaboration, and to meet legislative goals.
Job: Postdoc in Digital Humanities, U. of Maine
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the University of Maine Humanities Initiative seek a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities for a one-year position (with the possibility of two additional years).
Editors’ Choice: In Praise of “Shock and Awe”
Why graph? And why, in particular, use innovative and unfamiliar graphing techniques? I started this blog without addressing these questions, but a recent blog post by Adam Crymble, critical of “shock and awe” graphs made me realize the need to explain EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis) and data visualization. Crymble wisely challenged data visualization practitioners to […]
Editors’ Choice: Papers from MIT Presented at International Conference on Computational Creativity 2012
Many exciting things here at ICCC-12 (the International Conference on Computational Creativity 2012) in Dublin, but here are those that come from MIT, Writing and Humanistic Studies, and Comparative Media Studies: I represented my lab, The Trope Tank, by presenting by the position paper “Small-Scale Systems and Computational Creativity” (PDF) by Nick Montfort and Natalia […]
Editors’ Choice: Why the Google Art Project is Important
Our schools and libraries are being radically re-imagined for the digital age, but what about our museums? The New York Public Library, for example, is bravely (and controversially) rethinking its Fifth Avenue flagship building. Last month, MIT and Harvard announced edX, a partnership to offer free online courses, and last fall, Stanford offered three massive […]
Resource: Forking for Beginners
From Tonya Howe: I’ve been trying to wrap my head around github, and while it’s been a slow process, I think my experience may be useful for other folk like me–those of us who have just enough knowledge (and the curiosity, and the really big eyes) to make a mess of things. So, I thought […]
CFP: The Literary Interventions of the Digital Humanities: A Pecha Kucha Roundtable (NEMLA)
The Digital Americanist Society seeks speakers who will articulate a clear, interpretive intervention that digital scholarship has made (or could make) in their areas of study. Our goal will not be to describe digital projects, but instead to demonstrate how those projects advance, supplement, or disrupt the scholarly conversations of our respective literary subfields. We […]