Last fall I attended Rails Girls DC, a one day workshop that introduces women to programming using Ruby on Rails. It was a wonderful event and I learned a lot. But I also left inspired to bring this sort of event to the Digital Humanities! We too have a gender gap and need to support women interested […]
(What follows is a keynote I gave at the Digital Preservation 2013 conference on July 23, 2013. If you’re curious, there’s a video up of the talk and the Q & A as well and a pdf of the slides I showed (some of which vary from what I’ve shown here). “Disembodying the past to preserve it” I am, as you’ve […]
(This post is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave at the European Summer School “Culture & Technology” at the University of Leipzig, Germany, on July 26 2013.) This talk is about data in the humanities. Most of my colleagues in literary and cultural studies would not necessarily speak of their objects of study as […]
We’re delighted to announce version 1.1 of the DHDebates platform, which includes a number of new features: Account creation and basic profile editing Commenting on sentences for anonymous and logged in users Display of comment counts per paragraph for the text JSON APIs for read-only access to the database These features provide a number of […]
The Penn State University Libraries in partnership with the College of the Liberal Arts seek a creative, forward-thinking scholar for the new position of Digital Humanities Research Designer. The Digital Humanities Research Designer will be familiar with a range of technologies and have direct experience bringing digital approaches to bear on research and teaching. The […]
Thanks to a group of wonderful instructors and an energetic, passionate cohort of students from around the world, the first iteration of our intensive digital humanities training institute was a great success when it was held in January 2013. We were inspired by the model pioneered at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) and we […]
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – DUE AUG 31st! HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event September 8-9, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I Hotel and Conference Center HTRC The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital […]
For Cinema Journal in 2009, Tara McPherson wrote the following: The “we” in McPherson’s sentence may be interpreted as media studies practitioners in particular or humanities practitioners in general. And in 2012, I took her statement seriously as a challenge to teaching and learning at the graduate level. That year, I designed and taught a graduate seminar […]
For the first time, users of the Guide will be able to do full-text searching of its contents as well as move freely through them using the dynamic table of contents. Guide to Documentary Editing.
International Journal of Digital Libraries Special Issue on Digital Scholarship Digital scholarship, or “cyberscholarship” – that based on data and computation – is radically reshaping knowledge discovery, creation, analysis, presentation and dissemination in many topical areas. Scientists are using vast amounts of data to explore galaxies, measure stresses on earth systems, create genetic profiles of […]
