bookworm Open Library bookworm updated for searching Open Library. bookworm is a collaboration between the Harvard Cultural Observatory, Open Library, and the Open Science Data Cloud. It enables you to graphically explore lexical trends across a huge digital library.
The Digital Humanities Winter Institute at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an extension of the highly-successful Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. DHWI provides an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to digital scholarship and mingle with like-minded colleagues through coursework, social events, […]
I have written before about some issues relating to RDA and RDF. Today I want to actually consider some things we should consider that should cause us to question the concept of “RDA in RDF.” For many decades we have been using relational databases to store our bibliographic data, bibliographic data that we create and exchange […]
There seems to be a lot of topic modelling going on at the moment. Any why not? Projects like Mining the Dispatch are demonstrating the possibilities. Tools like Mallet are making it easy. And generous DHers like Ted Underwood and Scott Weingart are doing a great job explaining what it is and how it works. I’ve talked briefly about using topic modelling to explore […]
It has been six months since Digital Humanities Now relaunched in version 2.0 through the support of the PressForward Project, funded by the Sloan Foundation. The first version, run between 2009 and 2010, was an automated survey of Twitter. Version 1.5 was a one-man operation by Dan Cohen to vet the material using traditional methods of […]
Digitisation Project Manager vacancy at Tate : Digitisation and Content Programme. Digitisation Project Manager vacancy at Tate Tate is currently looking to recruit a Project Manager to undertake a substantial digitisation project within its archive.
Digital Assets Manager | Missouri History Museum. The Digital Asset Manager is directly responsible for the evaluation, selection, implementation, and management of a digital asset management system as well as the creation and management of the metadata, policies, and procedures related to digital assets. The ultimate goal of this position is to ensure that all […]
CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012. CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012 Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a gigabyte compressed, is available to download as one file. For over a decade, CNN (Cable News Network) has been providing transcripts of shows, events and newscasts from its broadcasts. The archive has been maintained and […]
Who We Are | #alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers. In preparation for a formal, confidential survey of career preparation in humanities graduate programs, the Scholarly Communication Institute is conducting an informal census of alternative academics. By “alternative academics,” we refer to people with graduate training in the humanities who apply their skills to a wide spectrum of positions beyond […]
In the last few years, I’ve noticed a certain kind of job ad appearing with more and more frequency. I think of it as the “make digital humanities happen” postdoctoral fellowship. Often based in a library, these positions’ descriptions include some combination of “liaison,” “catalyst,” and “hub,” with a heavy dose of coordinator syndrome thrown in. The […]
