Visualizing Emancipation. Visualizing Emancipation is an ongoing mapping project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, that sheds light on when and where men and women became free in the Civil War South. It tells the complex story of emancipation by mapping documentary evidence of black men and women’s activities–using official military correspondence, newspapers, […]
11 avril 2012 : Call for papers : Preconference workshop – Ontology based annotation |Très Grand Equipement Adonis. The Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH) is a research network running from 2011 to 2015, funded by the European Science Foundation, ESF. The network will examine the practice of, and evidence for, […]
New Plugins for a New Release – Omeka. Today, we offer a Spring bug fix release, version 1.5.1, which contains a few backend fixes (see release notes) and additional base languages contributed and translated by the Omeka community. See the current list of translations available, and if you don’t see your preferred language, sign […]
Easter 1982 – thirty years ago! – was spent feeding my latest addiction. Like over a million others, I had acquired the Sinclair ZX 81, which popularised home computing in Britain. It had just one kilobyte of on-board memory; I soon invested in the upgrade to take it up to 16 kilobytes. You used your […]
Collections – Google Art Project. How do the images we encounter on the street or on the walls of galleries create meaning? Art museums hold the key, but until recently, they have been accessible only in person. The Google Art Project attempts to provide more access to Museums and works of Art. The Google Art […]
Designing Applications for Extensibility and Reuse | | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Underlying all of the scholarly work in a digital humanities project is the digital, something that tends to be swept under the rug along with managing a DH center. I want to spend […]
The Digital Humanities Job Archive. The DH Jobs Archive is a repository of jobs listed as relating to digital humanities. Listings are increasingly featured on community sites such as DHNow or circulating on Twitter. However, many of these listings appear only for a brief time before being taken offline. Listservs including Humanist act as the […]
We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, so terrifying, and unpredictable. He hesitated to answer, and then said judiciously: “I think I shall praise it.” – Robert Hass Praise I find the Debates in the Digital Humanities volume terribly upsetting. Before I go any further […]
Digital Projects Directory. A Directory of past and current digital projects in UK museums, galleries, libraries and archives. This directory is intended to provide a source of reference, to encourage collaboration and to promote innovation.
CFP: UCSB Transcriptions Research Slam | HASTAC. Transcriptions Research Slam — CFP ***CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*** Transcriptions and the Arnhold Undergraduate Research Fellows Program present the 5th Annual Research Slam Friday, May 25, 2012 1 pm – 5:30 pm University of California, Santa Barbara Department of English South Hall (various locations) Project descriptions are due on […]
