Umea University invites PhD students from the Nordic countries to a semester-long course exploring the theory and practice of digital history.
This project is really for technical staff or developers who work with The Museum System (TMS). The code is a C# .NET WCF service application that allows access to curatorial data using JSON web services.
This is a collection of open-source museum projects active on github along with a list of “featured projects” hopefully of interest to the broader community.
In previous posts, we looked at a variety of Linux command line techniques for analyzing text and finding patterns in it, including word frequencies, permuted term indexes, regular expressions, simple search engines and named entity recognition. In this post we focus on a preliminary issue: converting images of texts into text files that we can…
The successful candidate will be a promising researcher able to carry out teaching and administration in Digital Anthropology and some other area within Material Culture studies which could include consumption, media, museums, art and visual culture, materials or a particular genre of material and visual culture. UCL Search Engine: Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material…
The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” in cooperation with the “Heidelberg Graduate School for Mathematical and Computational Methods in the Sciences”, invites applications for the position of Junior Research Group Leader in Digital Humanities (full-time post-doctoral position; German academic salary scale TVL-13)
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society seeks a part-time digital humanities research specialist to join our small team working on the Environment & Society Portal.
Mobile devices enable students and other non-professional historians to decode edificial remains, symbols etc. through giving access to additional information. In other words, mobile devices enrich reality: They reveal the historical value of topographic places and surfaces. The article “Mobile history Learning” delivers ideas for inquiry- and design-based learning with mobile devices. The authors try…
Over the last few years I have been staging a practical and theoretical investigation of art historical media. I’ve been asking what are art history and criticism are made of? Of course, the simple answer is: words. When we interpret, contextualise and historicise artistic practice we, in the main, take something visual and turn that…
To all historians of the 16th century using digital methods: Colin Wilder, the host of a panel at the Sixteenth Century Conference in San Juan/Puerto Rico (24-27th October 2013), is searching for a substitution of my paper (I had to cancel this talk because of problems with funding).