Job: Visiting Asst. Prof, Public History (Digital), Temple
Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructional, Public History (Digital) H-Net Job Guide.
Author: Joan Fragaszy Troyano
Editors’ Choice: Change Computer History Forever: Well, Here We Are
The Internet Archive is the largest collection of historical software online in the world…. a fully-accessible, worldwide-reachable, massive-bandwidth and completely unrestricted collection of computer history up right now, in these [Internet Archive collections] I’ve just mentioned. Some are mirrors of incredible projects that have been around long before this moment, and let me not diminish […]
Editors’ Choice: “From the Version of Record to a Version of the Record”
The opening plenary from CNI’s spring 2013 membership meeting by Herbert Van de Sompel, From the Version of Record to a Version of the Record, is now available on CNI’s two video channels: In the past two decades, scholarly communication has evolved significantly to become mainly digital and network-based. This transition has brought along changes in the […]
Resource: “Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics” available for free online
Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics is a freely available title published by OpenBooks via Resource: Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics | Eduhacker.
Resource: IMLS WebWise Conference Project / Partnership Incubator Group Materials
You will find links to both individual files and a folder containing all of materials used during the session. The materials are designed to be used sequentially, though some of them can stand alone. The documents offer probing questions, tip sheets, and guides that are useful when you begin developing a project. In case you […]
CFParticipation: Open Source Indexing
Historic documents often contain handwriting, old fonts, or other text formats that OCR software can’t handle. We need humans–from volunteers to paid staff–to read the document images and transcribe what they see into databases which can be searched, analyzed, crawled, and used by researchers. Until now those efforts have required organizations either to outsource indexing […]
Resource: The New York Public Library Digital Collections API Service
For the first time, significant portions of the New York Public Library’s digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute. ApiService.
Resource: Tabula takes data from PDF to CSV
Tabula lets you upload a (text-based) PDF file into a simple web interface and magically pull tabular data into CSV format. Tabula is free and available under the MIT open-source license. Introducing Tabula – Features – Source: An OpenNews project.
Conference: Shared Horizons – Data, BioMedicine, and the Digital Humanities, April 10-12, U. of Maryland
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) invites biomedical and humanities scholars to join us in investigating data, biomedicine, and the digital humanities. Shared Horizons – Data, BioMedicine, and the Digital Humanities.
CFParticipation: Publications Liaison, Association for Computers and the Humanities
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites applications for the position of publications liaison, a volunteer position to help increase the visibility of the association’s journals and other publications. Help us promote DH work! | Association for Computers and the Humanities.