Here’s a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming?< Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and Processing languages, and features a “live coding” environment, where the program’s output updates as the programmer types. Because my work was cited as an inspiration for […]
Interested in teaching or learning TEI? The slides, lecture notes, and other materials here were developed by the WWP for the workshops we teach, but they can also be a starting point for self-guided study. They are made available here for public reuse under a Creative Commons license. For versions of these materials that were […]
We are pleased to present Stemmaweb, which was developed in cooperation with members of the Interedition project and which provides an online interface to examining text collations and their stemmata. Stemmaweb has two homes: http://treeoftexts.arts.kuleuven.be/stemmaweb/ (the official KU Leuven site) http://byzantini.st/stemmaweb/ (Tara’s personal server, less official but much faster) via The Tree of Texts | […]
Partly because of NDNP’s participation in the NEH’s Digging Into Data program, as well as the interest from other individuals and organizations [the Library of Congress] recently started making data dumps of the OCR content available. This same OCR data is available as part of the batch data mentioned above, but the dumps provide two […]
ALLC: The European Association for Digital Humanities invites submissions for small grants for workshop and project support. Submissions are expected to be in the range from € 800 to € 2,000. The total amount available in this call is € 10,000. Proposals must be received by 15 November, 2012. Notification of the results will be […]
The School of Library and Information Studies, in partnership with the Living Environments Lab (LEL) at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), seeks applications for a full time tenure track position, at any level, in the broad area of Information Visualization. Desired emphases include visual depictions of data from complex systems, cognitive studies of how […]
GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our iSchool. Strong candidates in any area relating to the organization, management, preservation, and retrieval of information, and the production and transmission of knowledge are encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in specializations that directly contribute to our leading program in data curation, […]
The English Department at the University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus, invites applications for a FT (9-mo.) tenure-track faculty position at Assistant Professor level, with a specialty in Nature Writing (non U.S.) and strong interests in Environmental Studies and Digital Humanities, to start Fall 2013. via Job Announcement: UConn English/EVST/Digital Humanities Assistant Professor | Ecomedia Studies.
using the spreadsheet to connect evidence to argument. For most humanists, spreadsheets makes their eyes glaze over. There is even an ominous sense of imprisonment: one must literally put ideas into cell blocks. The database would seem to limit the subtlety and dexterity of humanistic analysis in problematic ways. It insists on squeezing the messy […]
One of the ironies of the Internet age is that traditional standards for accessibility have changed radically. Intelligent members of the public refer to undigitized manuscripts held in a research library as “locked away”, even though anyone may study the well-cataloged, well-preserved material in the library’s reading room. By the standard of 1992, institutionally-held manuscripts […]
