Announcements, News

Announcing 23 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2013)

Announcing 23 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2013) | National Endowment for the Humanities The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 23 awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our September 2012 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 205 grantsjust announced by the NEH. Congratulations to […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: DPLA Launch

Digital Public Library of America » [April 18-19, 2013] DPLA Launch. On April 18-19, 2013, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will celebrate the groundbreaking work of hundreds of librarians, innovators, and other dedicated volunteers in our collective effort to build the first national digital library. We invite you to join us at the […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Mellon Digital Scholar | Libraries at the Five Colleges of Ohio

https://employment.kenyon.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1365609130656 The Libraries at the Five Colleges of Ohio invite applications for the position of Mellon Digital Scholar. The Digital Scholar will support the Ohio Five Libraries’ transition to digital scholarship and continue the process of integrating digital collections into the curriculum and faculty research agendas. Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Respond to JDH 2.1

» Respond to JDH 2.1 Journal of Digital Humanities. The Journal of Digital Humanities “catches the good” by surfacing and highlighting valuable material published on the open web. For this issue we will go one step further, and solicit responses to this edition’s take on topic modeling in the digital humanities. We offer two ways to provide […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Digital Humanities Contribution to Topic Modeling

Topic modeling could stand in as a synecdoche of digital humanities. It is distant reading in the most pure sense: focused on corpora and not individual texts, treating the works themselves as unceremonious “buckets of words,” and providing seductive but obscure results in the forms of easily interpreted (and manipulated) “topics.” In its most commonly […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Introducing Scalar

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture » Overview. Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. More […]

News, Resources

Resource: Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R

Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R | Spatial Analysis. Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysis and visualisation of spatial data with R. The software has become established as one of the best around for statistics and it is becoming increasingly recognised as a tool for data visualisation (I wrote […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Head, Digital Initiatives | University of Waterloo

Head, Digital Initiatives | Library | University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo Library seeks a creative, dynamic and public service oriented professional librarian to fill a leadership position as Head, Digital Initiatives.  The position offers an exciting opportunity for a visionary leader to build on past and present achievements and to move the digital […]