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CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies

CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies | Michael Ullyot. Since 2001, the Renaissance Society of America annual meetings have featured panels on new technologies for scholarly research, publishing, and teaching. At the 2013 meeting (San Diego, 4-6 April 2013), several panels will cover these new and emerging projects and methodologies. We seek proposals in and […]

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Job: Research Officer, University of Glasgow

Jobs at Glasgow RESEARCH OFFICER Reference Number: 001674 Location: Gilmorehill Campus / Main Building College / Service: COLLEGE OF ARTS Department: SCHOOL OF CRITICAL STUDIES Job Family: Technical And Related Position Type: Full Time Salary Range: £26,004 – £29,249   Job Purpose To provide technical support and contribute to research in Digital Humanities within the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Four Noble Virtues of Digital Media Citation

In digital space, everything we do is networked. Real thinking doesn’t (and can’t) happen in a vacuum. Our teaching practices and scholarship don’t just burst forth miraculously from our skulls. The digital academic community is driven by citation, generosity, connection, and collaboration. The work we do as hybrid and critical pedagogues, digital humanists, and alternative […]

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CFP: Second NeDiMAH infoviz workshop

Second NeDiMAH infoviz workshop, Call for Participation. Visual Tools and Methods in Digital Humanities: Representing, Reading, and Thinking about Knowledge Creation… 21st of July 2012 in Hamburg alongside the DH conference.   Exploring the shifting intersection between more descriptive and analytical uses of visual components in digital environments and interpretative research tools – we will […]

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Resource: Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation

Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation. Your online visualization options are limited when you don’t know how to program. The Miso Project, a collaboration between The Guardian andBocoup, is an effort to lighten the barrier to entry. While the goal is to build a toolkit that makes visualization easier and faster, the first […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Multimodal Musical Analysis: Visualizing Diaspora

Since I work in the CDLR, I get to raise all kinds of wild questions that don’t fall into the purview of traditional, disciplinary bound scholarship. To prepare for my presentation at the Pop Conference (instituted by Experience Music Project in Seattle), this year combined with IASPM-US (International Association for the Study of Popular Music), I became preoccupied with the […]

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Resource: People Mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project

People Mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project – White Rose Research Online. Manual quality assurance (QA) of digitised content is typically fallible and can result in collections that are marred by a variety of quality and access issues. Poor storage conditions, technology obsolescence and other unforeseen problems can also leave digital objects in […]

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Job: Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian, UNC

Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library seeks a knowledgeable, resourceful, and collaborative individual for the position of Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The Project Librarian will coordinate activities for the proposed, multi-year grant project, North Carolina Newspapers. In this project, the University Library will lead a collaborative effort […]