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Editors’ Choice: Timelines

With all of the excitement about new interfaces to visualize the past, it’s easy to forget the old standby: the timeline. It has the power of simplicity, the challenge of over-simplifying. And in museums it has a visceral appeal: walk through history!

Timeline as interface, in the museum and on the web

For most public visitors to history, whether in school, in museums, or online, the timeline seems a natural, intuitive, way to present and understand the past. After all,what simpler metaphor for the past could there be than a timeline, with its suggestion of a direct connection between history and physical or virtual space?

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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: The Devonshire Manuscript: A Digital Social Edition

The Devonshire Manuscript: A Digital Social Edition « Early Modern Online Bibliography. Readers are invited to participate in a promising and methodically thought-through experiment in social editing. The University of Victoria’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab‘s Devonshire MS Editorial Group invites contributions to a new project involving collaborative knowledge curation.  The project aims at attributing contributions […]

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Job Announcements, News

Job: Program Coordinator for The HistoryMakers

H-Net Job Guide. The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive,seeks to hire a Program Coordinator. The Program Coordinator will be responsible for promoting, coordinating, and executing multiple year-round and summer educational programs. The program coordinator must be able to operate in a fast-past, deadline-driven environment, have an extensive background in program […]

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News, Resources

Resource: On blogging in the Digital Humanities

On blogging in the Digital Humanities | Michael Ullyot. Blogging in the social, pure, and applied sciences is a common enough practice that two members of the London School of Economics’ Public Policy Group said today that it is “one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now” — namely, […]

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News, Resources

Resource: Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing publishes first issue

CDRH News & Events. Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing publishes first issue We are delighted to announce the debut of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing, now online at scholarlyediting.org. Published for over 30 years as a print publication titled Documentary Editing, Scholarly Editing continues to […]

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Dealing with Multiple Narratives of “Truth” and Creating Meaningful Play

A certain amount of knowledge is required for players to navigate video games, whether this means remembering the weak points of the different splicers in BioShock, or remembering the buttons to press to play Epona’s song in Ocarina of Time. This knowledge is gained throughout play, rather than presented to the individual to quiz them, […]

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News, Resources

Resource: Old Maps Online

The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct […]

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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Editing Early Texts: Practice and Protocol, NZ

This symposium is for scholars and postgraduate students involved in the editing of early literary and non-literary texts. ‘Early’ is being interpreted quite broadly, c. 1500-1800, and speakers so far have editing interests in Shakespeare and early modern drama, early modern poetry and prose, eighteenth-century fiction, early modern women’s writing and early modern historical texts. […]

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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Japanese Association for Digital Humanities 2012

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its second annual conference, to be held at the University of Tokyo, Japan, 15-17 September, 2012. The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities internationally, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with the ways […]

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Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst. Prof. Visual and Digital Media, Nevada State College

The School of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Nevada State College invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor in Visual and Digital Media to begin August 2012. The preferred candidate must be able to teach courses in media studies, visual media production, and new media production, focusing on topics in media studies, visual arts […]

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