News, Resources

Resource: (New) Humanist Discussion Group

(New) Humanist Discussion Group. The online world is now simply part of what most humanists in the developed world do, so much so that we may wonder if the digital humanities, like the state in Marxist theory, will soon wither away. The same question might be asked about Humanist, since the Web is now populated by […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Projects Manager at New Hampshire Historical Society

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Digital Projects Manager at New Hampshire Historical Society. The New Hampshire Historical Society is recruiting a Digital Projects Manager. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The New Hampshire Historical Society seeks a full-time digital projects manager to help lead the evolution of the Society’s digital collections and services and to take […]

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Job: Numeric & Spatial Data Specialist at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Library

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Numeric & Spatial Data Specialist at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Library. The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Library is recruiting a Numeric & Spatial Data Specialist. Here’s an excerpt from the ad (requisition number: 102681): Under the general direction of the Data Services Librarian, the Numeric and Spatial Data Specialist provides […]

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Job: Interacting with Print – Postdoctoral fellow

Interacting with Print – Postdoctoral fellow. Salary: 35,000 CAD, plus research allowance Term of Appointment: 1 August 2013 – 31 July 2014 The Interacting with Print Research Group at McGill University and the University of Montreal is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with interests in developing digital humanities methodologies for studying the print culture of eighteenth- […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar, Lancaster University

GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar « Applied Technologies to Archaeology. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly used by historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, classicists and others with an interest in humanities geographies. Take-up has been hampered by a lack of understanding of what GIS is and what it has to […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities at MLA 2013

What follows is a comprehensive list of digital humanities sessions at the 2013 Modern Language Association Conference in Boston. These are sessions that in some way address the influence and impact of digital materials and tools upon language, literary, textual, and media studies, as well as upon online pedagogy and scholarly communication. The 2013 list […]

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Resource: T-PEN: A New Tool for Transcription of Digitized Manuscripts

T-PEN: A New Tool for Transcription of Digitized Manuscripts « Early Modern Online Bibliography. T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation) seeks to address both the accessibility and usability of digital repositories. Developed by the Center for Digital Theology of Saint Louis University, in collaboration with the Carolingian Canon Law Project of the University of Kentucky, this new digital tool is a […]