Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst Prof in Digital Humanities with a focus on screen research, Umea University

Biträdande lektor/ Assistant Professor. We are looking for a person with a Ph.D. or the equivalent qualifications from a humanities discipline or a discipline relevant to the position. The position will be placed at HUMlab and is part of the research project Multiple Screens as Material. HUMlab is a meeting place for the humanities, culture and […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: #AHA2013 and #MLA13 Roundup

Editors’ Note: Thank you to our Editors-at-Large and to all those who responded to our CFP for helping us gathering links to Digital Humanities related content from both the AHA and MLA annual meetings. If you have work that you would like included in this roundup, please fill out the form located on our CFP. […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asian Digital Humanities and Social Sciences

Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asian Digital Humanities and Social Sciences – CLA: Department of American Studies. Post-Doc in East Asian Studies:The John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University invite applications for a special post-doctoral fellowship for a recent Ph.D. in any field […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Frontiers 2013 (Sept. 19-21, 2013, University of North Texas)

Call for Proposals: Digital Frontiers 2013 (Sept. 19-21, 2013, University of North Texas) | laurie n. taylor. Call for Proposals: Digital Frontiers 2013 September 19-21, 2013 University of North Texas, Denton, TX The University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Co-Operative and UNT Libraries invite proposals for Digital Frontiers 2013, a conference that brings together the […]

News, Resources

Resource: Natural Earth

Natural Earth. Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

News, Resources

Resource: batch renaming archive photos

batch renaming archive photos « parezco y digo. As I’ve written about on a number of other occasions (here and here), I love using a digital camera for archival research. I’m an evangelist with graduate students, undergrads writing honors theses, and any of my colleagues who will listen for using digital cameras in the archive, something I’ve […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Museums and Digital Humanities workshop

Digital Partnerships: Museums and Digital Humanities UCL Centre for Digital Humanities will be hosting a workshop focusing on how museums and universities can work together when it comes to digital innovation. A drinks reception will be hosted afterwards at the Grant Museum of Zoology nearby. It will explore digital innovation and the relationships between museums, universities […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013

Call for Proposals: JCDL 2013. JCDL 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, including (but not limited to) new forms […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Keeping the words in Topic Models

Following up on my previous topic modeling post, I want to talk about one thing humanists actually do with topic models once they build them, most of the time: chart the topics over time. Since I think that, although Topic Modeling can be very useful, there’s too little skepticism about the technique, I’m venturing to provide it […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Should Museum Exhibitions Be More Linear? Exploring the Power of the Forced March in Digital and Physical Environments

When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by interactive fiction. I loved the idea of the web as an infinite landscape, with stories and poems spiraling out in nonlinear directions. Fifteen years later, the web has evolved tremendously… but hypertext-based interactive art and fiction is  still a nerdy sideline at best. A cult of […]