Crowdcrafting is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It is a joint effort between theOpen Knowledge Foundation and Citizen Cyberscience Centre, It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. Crowdcrafting is there to help researchers, civic hackers […]
The overall goal of TEXTUS is to provide an open-source platform through which scholars and students are able to re-use the vast and expanding amount of digitised cultural heritage material now available through portals such as the Internet Archive, Wikisource and Project Gutenberg. The aim is to enable scholarly communities to easily establish their own […]
The title of the colloquium is “Transitions and Translations: New Approaches to the Moving Image.” Please find the full CFP below. The event is scheduled to take place between March 1-2, 2013. Deadline for submission is December 5th. via FSAC-ACÉC Colloquium | Grad/Aperture.
Re:Humanities 2013 explores various aspects of multimodal storytelling and argument. We seek undergraduates who are exploring cross-platform approaches to course projects, digital scholarship, and student collaborations. DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday, December 7th, 2012 (Midnight GMT) Re:Humanities CFP Deadline EXTENDED to Dec. 7. | Tri-Co Digital Humanities.
We are excited to announce a call for full length papers for a special issue of Computer Music Journal, with a deadline of 21st January 2013, for publication in Spring of the following year. The issue will be guest edited by Alex McLean, Julian Rohrhuber and Nick Collins, and will address themes surrounding live coding […]
The goal of this document is to provide a basic tool for helping organizations manage and mitigate digital preservation risks. This document does not deal with broader issues related to collection development practices, critical policy framework decisions, general issues involving staffing or particular workflows or life cycle issues. Those are all critical, and in many […]
Free access to the in-progress manuscript of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web via the Open Feedback Publishing System is provided so you can interact with the authors and community and provide your feedback in real-time. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web – OFPS – O’Reilly Media.
With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Five Colleges, Incorporated invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities beginning in the academic year 2013-14. The position will be based at one of the consortium’s associated institutions (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst).
Is the discipline of art history (together with museums and libraries) squandering the digital revolution? We’re not the only ones with this concern. Just last week James Cuno wrote a short article, “How Art History is Failing the Internet” and WIlliam Noeltweeted, “Calling on all other great libraries; follow @britishlibrary‘s example. Free your images!” …Although eight years have passed […]
This is the rough script of my Digital Dialog given at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. Keynote slides and a recording of my talk are available on the Digital Dialogues site, and the slides are available on SlideShare. Many thanks go to my wonderful hosts at MITH for inviting across the river […]
