Job Announcements, News

Jobs: Applications Analyst, UNC

APPLICATIONS ANALYST. As a member of the Web Unit in the University Library’s Systems Department, the Applications Analyst provides applications programming, Web development expertise, and technical support for the UNC Library. The primary purpose of this position is to work with content creators to meaningfully express their content in a content management system (CMS). In […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Hurry–Send us Your Ideas for Digital Preservation 2012, July 24-26

Hurry–Send us Your Ideas for Digital Preservation 2012, July 24-26 For the first time we are opening the call for proposals for broad participation.  Any organization with an interest in digital preservation can propose ideas for potential inclusion in the meeting.  We are specifically seeking proposals for posters, 5-minute “lightning talks” and tool demonstrations. Topics of […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections

Editors’ Note: “Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections” is a working group meeting at the National Council on Public History this weekend. Leading up to the event, participants have contributed a variety of proposals, discussions, reports,and analysis to the blog Visualizing the Past. Three of the most […]

News, Resources

Resource: Learn DST

LearnDST.richmond.edu | . LearnDST is an instructional tool for creative people interested in learning the 5-step process (writing, recording, searching, producing, and publishing) of digital storytelling. It was developed to meet the “just-in-time” training needs required to create digital stories in the context of IT fluency. Learn more about digital storytelling (DST) here and learn how DST […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Research Associate in Digital Humanities and Computational Criticism at Stanford

[Humanist] 25.891 jobs at Stanford and at Colorado-Boulder. Description The Literary Lab in the English Department seeks to fill a 75-100% FTE, one-year, fixed-term position (with possible renewal) in Digital Humanities and Computational Criticism, starting September 1, 2012. This position reports directly to the Faculty Director of the Lit Lab. The candidate is responsible for […]

News, Resources

Resource: The new QueryPic (or what a difference an API makes)

discontents – The new QueryPic (or what a difference an API makes). It seems a bit late to be introducing the newest version of QueryPic. Folks are already using it to explore the contents of digitised newspapers made available through Troveand Papers Past. Some, like the National Library of New Zealand, Andrew S. Bowmanand the Carnamah Historical Society are already blogging about […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Mapping Texts

Mapping Texts is a collaboration between the University of North Texas and Stanford University aimed at experimenting with new methods for finding and analyzing meaningful patterns embedded in massive collections of digital newspapers. Why do we think this is important?  Because, quite simply, historical newspapers are currently being digitized at a scale that is rapidly […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities Congress 2012

Digital Humanities Congress 2012 – HRI – The University of Sheffield. The University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 6th – 8th September 2012. Proposals should be submitted in Microsoft Word or plain text format […]

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Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding

Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding. Interested in teaching or learning TEI? The slides, lecture notes, and other materials here were developed by the WWP for the workshops we teach, but they can also be a starting point for self-guided study. They are made available here for public reuse under a Creative Commons license. […]