Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What Can Digital Humanities Do for 19th-Century Literature? The Case of William Black

This is part of a longer book project I coauthored with Jason Whittaker called William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media. I wanted to look at Blake as a test case for understanding how digital modalities can impact what literary studies means to us. In other words, I wanted to think about the […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: THATCamp Publishing June 19, 2013

THATCamp Publishing is an opportunity for the publishing community to discuss the practice and trajectory of scholarly communication. Both publishers and readers face the challenges of balancing print and digital methods of development, dissemination, and consumption. Everyone is experimenting new tools, structures, and services. Let’s get together to ask questions, discuss new approaches, share experiences, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Prism

Prism is a tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation.” Users are invited to provide an interpretation of a text by highlighting words according to different categories, or “facets.” Each individual interpretation then contributes to the generation of a visualization which demonstrates the combined interpretation of all the users. We envision Prism as a tool for both pedagogical […]

News, Resources

Resource: OpenDAHT

OpenDAHT is an initiative aimed at the development, maintenance and provision of digital tools and resources for use within various fields of arts and humanities scholarship. All software supported by OpenDAHT is released as freeware, and in some cases, under open source licensing. OpenDAHT always welcomes new contributors. http://dhnow.org/168zVkH

Editors' Choice

Editors Choice: Historians and Digital History: Why Do Academics Shy Away from Digital History?

The Internet is finally beginning to penetrate historical practice.  At the recent North American Society for Sports History (NASSH) Conference, held May 24-26, 2013 at Saint Mary’s University, Douglas Booth and Gary Osmond provided a fascinating primer on the impact digital history is starting to exert on a field like the study of international sports […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director, Digital Humanities Seed Lab, Arizona State U.

The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) seeks an Administrative Professional to serve as Director of the Digital Humanities Seed Lab. The successful candidate will work closely with the IHR Director, Digital Humanities Advisory Board, and staff to conceptualize and implement an ASU-wide initiative on digital humanities research. The successful candidate will draw upon previous training/ […]