Flow | Call for Responses. The 2012 Flow Conference will resemble traditional academic meetings in name only: there will be no panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions. Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized around a discussion question on contemporary issues in television/media culture and scholarship. Respondents are asked to […]
Digitization in the Real World highlights 34 cases of digital collection building in libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions throughout North America. This book is written by practitioners for practitioners focusing on lessons learned from small to medium-sized digitization projects. Digitization in the Real World was edited by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma. […]
University of California – UC Newsroom | Campus to lead social computing research center. IRVINE — UC Irvine will anchor a new $12.5 million, Intel-funded research center that applies social science and humanities to the design and analysis of digital information. “Technology is profoundly entangled with our everyday lives. As researchers, we can’t get a […]
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project uses database technology to map the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794. As the STN sold the works of other publishers alongside its own editions, their archives can be considered a representative source for […]
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). Special issue on corpus and computational linguistics, philology, and the linguistic heritage of humanity.
Yale U. Press Digitizes Stalin’s Massive Personal Archive | Publishing Perspectives. Over the last two years Yale University Press and the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History have been quietly digitizing Stalin’s personal archive, consisting of thousands of documents, letters, and books, that passed through the Soviet leader’s hands. Vadim Staklo, the editor overseeing […]
Digital Pedagogy Roundup – First Half of 2012 » Roger T. Whitson, Ph.D. For those of you who don’t know, I was a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech for two years. First-year fellows participate in a postdoctoral seminar called dped, which is short for digital pedagogy. Rebecca’s request looked like a great opportunity for me […]
Taking Notes at #THATCamp This past weekend was THATCamp Prime 2012 at the George Mason’s Center for History and New Media, and thanks to a few cancellations, I got the chance to join in the fun and rub elbows with 100+ DHers. Like many other attendees, I drove home with a browser full of links and a host […]
The OKF is recruiting! | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog. The following roles are open – Community Coordinator Labs Developer Front End Web Developer Data Visualization Developer Data Wrangler Web and Systems Administrator Foundation Administrator Data Wrangler and Data Vis positions here – applications are still open so do get in touch! Here’s some more info on the other positions that […]
Abstract — Council on Library and Information Resources. by Christa Williford and Charles Henry Research Design by Amy Friedlander ISBN 978-1-932326-40-6 This report culminates two years of work by CLIR staff involving extensive interviews and site visits with scholars engaged in international research collaborations involving computational analysis of large data corpora. These scholars were the […]
