Using Git locally for a Subversion-based project (like BuddyPress) | Teleogistic. In the past, I’ve written extensively about using Git with WordPress projects. I’ve focused primarily on Git as the primary development channel, with SVN (in this case, plugins.svn.wordpress.org) used for distribution only. In contrast, I use Git for all my local development on the BuddyPress […]
Gates Foundation Offers Grants for MOOC’s in Introductory Classes – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to find out whether the massive open online courses that have proved so popular in advanced and often highly technical fields offer the same promise for remedial and introductory courses. […]
2012 NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting – Open to Public | National Endowment for the Humanities Come learn about using facial recognition software to unlock art historical mysteries, developing tools for building maps on the fly, employing gaming technology to help enrich archival collections, or discovering early writings of Abraham Lincoln with authorship attribution […]
Post Position » Friday’s the Deadline: Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games As mentioned here before, Ian Horswill, Michael Young and I are editing a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (T-CIAIG), and your submissions are invited. Specifically: The T-CIAIG Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games solicits […]
How Can A Digital Humanist Get Tenure? | HASTAC. What counts for tenure for those in the digital humanities? This is a persistent question in any new field (not that digital humanities is “new” at this point but its methods are not the “scholarly monograph published by a university press” widely recognized by colleagues in […]
It is a great honour to be asked to inaugurate this first Digital Humanities Congress at the University of Sheffield. My connections with digital humanities at Sheffield go back to 1995 when the remarkable portfolio of projects in the Humanities Research Institute at Sheffield caught the attention of the British Library, and I was asked […]
The University of Munich is looking for an experienced Programmer and Digital Humanist to work on the Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra project in the Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies. The initial term of appointment is until 31 December 2015, with the possibility of renewal. The application deadline is 31 August 2012, with a start […]
Speaker: Piotr Adamczyk, Metropolitan. Moderator: Noel Jackson. Abstract: Museums are increasingly adopting open data policies, both for easy internal reuse of data sets and as a way of building community engagement online. While the opening up of data is a welcome development, too often key audiences see too little of this information through too small a […]
Course Details – Clio Wired I — Fall 2012. This course is designed to introduce history graduate students to the theories and methods of digital history. Over the last 14 years (check out the syllabus from 1998), the course has prepared a generation of graduate students to do cutting edge historical work in a digital environment, […]
Downloadable data sets [OCLC]. DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 14 August 2012—OCLC has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file—representing nearly 1.2 million resources—contains approximately 80 million linked data “triples,” the term for the most granular relationship possible between discrete pieces of information. “This is an important step for […]
