Seems like two out of three jobs we see advertized in Digital Humanities these days are in Germany (even not counting the recent mass recruitment at Greg Crane’s new shop in Leipzig!), which is both great news for everyone in this field, and a little bit sobering for those us seeing many of our best […]
We’ve been doing a lot of work lately using Gephi to visualise connections between authors, creative works, critical writing and events in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Base. It’s pretty easy to get started, and here’s a writeup of the quick tutorial we gave participants in our Visualising Electronic Literature workshop last week. View Tutorial Here
Rutgers University-Camden seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor as founding Director for the Digital Studies Center in the College of Arts and Sciences. The center will serve as the campus’s hub for scholarship and interdisciplinary research in digital studies. Candidate’s field of expertise is open, but should be knowledgeable about […]
At the Media Systems gathering Janet Murray made a clarion call for deeper fundamental research in computational media, moving forward interdisciplinary understanding through the creation of new genres: There has to be someplace where you say, “How do we reconfigure knowledge?” Because that is what happens when you have a new medium of representation, as with the […]
*************************************************************** “Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society” 24-27 February 2014 Omni San Francisco Hotel, California Street, San Francisco, USA *************************************************************** #idcc14 Call for Papers The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) brings together data and information creators, managers, users, researchers, and teachers. The IDCC14 Programme Committee invites submissions to the […]
The Department of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) seeks a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in Digital Humanities, to begin August 1, 2014. We are looking for a scholar with a strong academic background in historical research. Period and area of specialization are open. Ph.D. required by August 1, 2014. http://www.digitalhistorians.org/2013/08/20/tenure-track-assistant-professor-of-digital-humanities-iupui/
It’s that time of year when educators and instructors are planning like mad for the coming semester or quarter, so we are highlighting some resources to help you get started using Omeka in your class. http://omeka.org/blog/2013/08/20/back-to-school-edition-use-omeka-in-your-class/
Workshop at EUDAT Conference 28. October 2013 Rome www.eudat.eu Workshop Background Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) are in general not known for Big Data challenges since the term often is reduced to the processing of large data volumes. However, there are more aspects – such as data to be worked on being highly distributed or […]
The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) seeks a Technology Specialist to join its growing team and to further DPLA’s mission to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this mission and the drive to accomplish it over time in a collaborative spirit both […]
Twenty years into the transformation initiated by the World Wide Web, we have grown accustomed to a head-spinning pace of technological and social change. Innovations that would have amazed us ten years ago are now merely passing news, as transient as a tweet. Music, video, and journalism have been profoundly altered—and we have grown used […]
