The University of Virginia Library, a leader in the development of digital library initiatives and infrastructure and recognized for the strength and variety of its special collections, is excited to offer an eight-week summer internship to provide a graduate student with practical experience in both areas.
Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome was created in 2008 by Jim Tice and Erik Steiner and remains, in my mind, one of the finest examples of the integration of spatial and image data into a single digital scholarly work. Only a year after the introduction of Google Street View, Tice and Steiner […]
The Project AEGIS postdoctoral position to be located in the IDI Mobile and Pervasive Computing Cluster at the University of Toronto will focus on the role of ‘participatory material culture’ in serving these needs. Research questions to be addressed may include: How can rapid prototyping and “3-d printing” technologies and smart sensors be used to […]
This year’s Museums and the Web features four published papers on Linked Open Data as well as a workshop for getting your hands dirty with data.
The April/May 2012 issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology includes a special section entitled “Digital Humanities and Information Visualization: Innovations and Integration.”
This Google Document spreadsheet lists different transcription tools and their features and is open to additions. Transcription Tool List.
Right now, humanists often have to take topic modeling on faith. There are several good posts out there that introduce the principle of the thing (by Matt Jockers, for instance, and Scott Weingart). But it’s a long step up from those posts to the computer-science articles that explain “Latent Dirichlet Allocation” mathematically. My goal in […]
So here we are in 2012, the Year of Code, and we should all be learning to code! Shouldn’t we? Especially if we belong to this community known as Digital Humanities, a field that is endlessly wrestling with its self-definition. Who’s in, who’s out? Is it really necessary to code? Don’t we have to know […]
A collection of best online collaboration tools from Robin Good, updated weekly.
The guide describes the techniques used in our Software Studies Lab to explore large image and video sets. The guide covers the following operations (software used is in brackets): – Download and setup free ImageJ software used to prepare images and video for visualizations, and create visualizations. – Automatically detect shots in a video (shotdetect). […]
