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CFProjects: Interactivos?’12 Ljubljana: “Obsolete Technologies of the Future”

Ljudmila, Digital Medialab of Ljubjliana, in collaboration with SGMK of Zurich and Medialab-Prado are seeking for proposals for an upcoming workshops in collaborative prototyping which will be hold in Ljubljana (September 5 – 15, 2012) with the participation of advisors, technical assistants. We are seeking proposals for: * Installations (interactive, responsive, generative) * Performances (participatory, […]

News, Reports

Report: Scholarly Production & Authoring Meeting Report, from Scholarly Communication Institute

Our first meeting took place in May 2012 at the Institute of International Education in New York City. The meeting focused on experimental platforms for scholarly production, as well as shared concerns and opportunities for change in broader areas such as audience, building and sustaining communities, academic workflow, and the human and technical infrastructure that supports scholarly communication. Materials […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Research Developer, Digital Resource for Palaeography (DigiPal), King’s College London

The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH), King’s College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to work as a developer on the research project “Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic” (DigiPal: http://digipal.eu/). The position will involve designing and developing computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship in […]

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Job: Asst Prof, U.S. 19th C. History, Public and Digital History, Western University, Ontario

The Department of History invites applications for exceptional scholars for one (1) tenure-stream position at the Assistant Professor level to commence July 1, 2013 in the following: United States, 19th c. with preference given to research on race in U.S. and in the Atlantic triangle (including Africa and/or Caribbean) and/or interest in American Studies. The […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Reports from Human-Computer Interaction Lab Annual Symposium at the University of Maryland

Reports from the 29th Annual Symposium, held May 22-23, 2012, are now available in the archive. Sopan, A. (May 2012) Monitoring Scientific Conference: Real-time Visualization and Retrospective Analysis of the Backchannel Conversation HCIL-2012-12 [Link to Report] Dunne, C., Shneiderman, B. (May 2012) Motif Simplification: Improving Network Visualization Readability with Fan and Parallel Glyphs HCIL-2012-11 [Link […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Vision of the Role and Future of Web Archives: The Web Archive in Today’s World

Editors’ Note: This piece consists of three posts. A PDF of full report available from netpreserve.org. From the first in the three-part series: Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective cultural past: every book, letter, or document was created, read and […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “Shock and Awe” Graphs in Digital Humanities

Over the past two years I’ve been noticing a rise in what I like to call “shock and awe” graphs in digital humanities, designed to overwhelm their audience and perhaps even to evoke doubt in one’s own abilities to compete in the same scholarly conversation. These graphics are both incredibly complex representations of data, and […]

News, Resources

Resource: Conference Notes from inaugural Australasian Association for Digital Humanities meeting in March 2012 by Mia Ridge

Editors’ Note: Mia Ridge has written extensive notes from the inaugural Astralasian Association for Digital Humanities meeting in March 2012: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. The following is a selection from Day 2. Keynote panel, ‘Big Digital Humanities?’ Day 2 was introduced by Craig Bellamy, and began with a keynote panel with Peter Robinson, Harold […]

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CFP: 2012 Digital Library Federation Forum

The 2012 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum is seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions. The Forum is a working meeting where DLF members come together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. Participation is open to all those interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful […]

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CFP: Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University

The University of Kentucky’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program invites proposals for a two day symposium devoted to discussion of the implications of a networked digital humanities. The symposium will bring together academic and professional audiences in order to rethink the taxonomy of humanities so that we emerge with a network of people and […]