Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Project Manager, Carnegie Hall

We seek a Digital Project Manager to manage the day-to-day timeline and work flow for Carnegie Hall’s Digital Archives Project, a comprehensive initiative that will digitize extensive paper and audio-visual holdings documenting the Hall’s 120-year history, ensuring that they are preserved for future generations and made increasingly accessible to the public.  Manage vendor relationships, perform […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Crowdsourcing and Cultural Heritage Round-Up

Editors’ Note: Several recent pieces by Mia Ridge and Trevor Owens have been focused on Crowdsourcing and Cultural Heritage. Excerpts and links to the original pieces are below. Frequently Asked Questions about Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage By Mia Ridge ….What kind of cultural heritage stuff can be crowdsourced? I wrote this list of ‘Activity types […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Quantitative Approaches to Nineteenth Century Literary and Intellectual History

Editors’ Note: Two new publications using quantitative methods to study the literary and intellectual history of nineteenth century Britain have been released. The first by Ryan Heuser and Long Le-Khac from the Stanford Literary Lab, and the second from Dan Cohen and Fred Gibbs. Excerpts and links to the original texts are included below. A […]

News, Resources

Resource: Field Papers

Field Papers allows you to print a multipage paper atlas of anywhere in the world and take it outside, offline, into the field. You can scribble on it, add features, or make notes about the area, all without a GPS or complicated GIS software. Once you’ve annotated your atlas, you can upload photographs of each […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Early American Culture and the Digital Humanities – Society of Early Americanists

This panel will consider the implications of the digital humanities, broadly defined, for the study of early American culture. What particular challenges and/or opportunities do the digital humanities offer scholars in the field? How might some of the foundational conceptions that help structure and organize the study of early American writing and culture need to […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Conference on Digital Engagement in Archaeology: Strategies & Evaluation Methods

8th – 9th November at UCL Institute of Archaeology Organisers: Chiara Bonacchi (UCL Institute of Archaeology) & Daniel Pett (The British Museum) Under the auspices of: the Archaeology and Communication Research Network (ACRN) and the Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology (CASPAR). The organisers invite 2 types of papers: a) Papers presenting frameworks […]