What do pet cloning websites, YouTube videos of fans playing AC/DC’s “Gone Shootin’”, and discussions of the end times on UseNet all have in common? Answer: Robert Glenn Howard has studied and written about all of them in his ongoing study of the vernacular web. Robert Glenn Howard is the Director of Digital Studies and a Professor…
Designing databases for historical research (free course) | Institute of Historical Research. This free module provides an overview of important concepts both in terms of the historical data that might be used in databases and in terms of the design process. The module takes the form of a handbook, broken down into chapter headings and…
Women’s History in the Digital World | Conferences | Bryn Mawr College. The Women’s History in the Digital World conference brings together scholars working on women’s history projects with a digital component, exploring the complexities of creating, managing, researching and teaching with digital resources. This is the first conference of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center…
Guidelines now available for 2014 Fellowships | National Endowment for the Humanities. Guidelines for the Fellowships grant program are now available. The deadline for applications is May 1, 2013, for projects beginning in or after January 2014. Applicants will be notified of the decision in December 2013. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of…
First CENDARI Summer School, 22 – 26 July 2013. The CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) project, in collaboration with the COST Action: IS 1005, ‘Medioevo Europeo: Medieval Studies and Technological Resources’, will host the first of three annual CENDARI Summer Schools, 22 – 26 July 2013 in Florence, Italy. The Summer School, entitled Historical Sources & Transnational…
Computer Studies in Language and Literature | The MLA Discussion Group in Computer Studies in Language and Literature (G011). The Discussion Group on Computer Studies of Languages and Literature will host a showcase session to highlight innovative work by undergraduate and graduate students in the digital humanities. This session aims to demonstrate how students, at…
altc2013 altc2013, the 20th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology, has been extended to midnight on Sunday 10 March 2013. The conference will be held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, from 10-12 September 2013. Submit a proposal to altc2013 using Open Conference Systems. The deadline for proposals has been extended to Midnight GMT on Sunday…
Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, Force11 aims to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology, which will also broaden to include, for…
Recently, my colleague and Hybrid Pedagogy co-conspirator, Pete Rorabaugh, and I spoke at the Emory Symposium on Digital Publication, Undergraduate Research, and Writing. Over the course of two days of discussion, it became clear that, in order to realize the full potential of digital publication initiatives like the Domain of One’s Own project at the University of Mary…
Sixteen months after the relaunch of Digital Humanities Now, it is time again to offer a glimpse behind the scenes. While many of the trends we identified in our six month report remain stable, there have been two significant changes in our editorial process. First, we have reduced our publication cycle from daily to twice…