Costume Core is a new application profile, building on existing metadata standards to create a specification for cataloging and encoding costume. This specification is being tested to consider its application for an inter-institutional digital resource for the study of the history of dress, HistoricDress.org. Source: Costume Core | An application profile for cataloging costume.
A new section of the Mediacommons project known as #alt-academy is dedicated to “Graduate Training in the 21st Century.” Edited by Melissa Dalgleish (York University) and Daniel Powell (University of Victoria), the first “cluster” is exploring “how the prototypical graduate project in the humanities—the dissertation—is changing in the face of the digital turn, shifting job markets, and…
Two post-doctoral fellowships in the history of science and technology are offered by OU and MPIWG, one fellow will be appointed for each institution. Fellowships offer an opportunity to acquire skills in the digital humanities because, unlike other publication workflows, EOS requires authors to assume responsibility of preparing the work for press. This entails use of…
The project investigates Hero of Alexandria’s treatise on the making of automata, and will design, build and the models described in that work. View ad here.
The main objective of the project is therefore to investigate how the digital medium can assist non-specialists as well as advanced readers with unlocking the stories and contexts that lie behind them. The closing date for receipt of completed applications is midnight on Sunday, 17 August 2014. View ad here.
May 9th, 2014 This post is part of a series that reflects on three years of research on sourcing and circulating scholarly communication on the open web. In the coming weeks we will share our discoveries, processes, and code developed through rapid prototyping and iterative design: the PressForward plugin for WordPress; the collaboratively-edited weekly publication Digital Humanities Now; and the experimental overlay Journal…
What can we learn from the creation and exploration of a virtual world? The impulse to create imagined spaces occupies a longstanding tradition in the humanities. Whether it be Plato’s Cave or Mount Olympus or Yoknapatawpha, virtual landscapes hold out the promise to expand our human capacities to create, to imagine, and to analyze beyond…
The Educopia Institute has released Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. (PDF) These Guidelines are an effort to distill preservation-readiness steps into incremental processes that an institution of almost any size or type can deploy to begin maturing its digital newspaper content management practices. Digital Scholarship Overview | DigitalKoans
APIs present researchers with a diverse set of data sources through a standardised access mechanism: send a pasted together HTTP request, receive JSON or XML in return. Today we tap into a range of APIs to get comfortable sending queries and processing responses. These are the slides from the final class in Web Scraping through…
This posting outlines the implementation of a Semantic Web application. It is a sort of inference engine feed with a URI and integer, both supplied by a person. Its ultimate goal is to find relationships between URIs that were not immediately or readily apparent. Source: Morgan, Eric Lease: Semantic Web application