CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: HASTAC Scholars Nominations now open

We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting nominations for HASTAC Scholars for 2012-2013. The HASTAC Scholars program is an innovative student community. The program is comprised of graduate & undergraduate students who come from dozens of disciplines at 75+ universities. The Scholars are all working at the intersection of technology and the […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships

ACLS invites applications for the eighth annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, thanks to the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst Prof. in Digital Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

We are looking for an innovative, collaborative, and forward-thinking teacher-scholar to serve as a key contributor to the Singapore Centre for the Study of the Moving Image, a newly proposed research centre bridging the WKWSCI and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

Job Announcements, News

Job: 3 Jobs for DH developers, Kings College London

The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) is an academic department in the School of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London. The department is looking for a number of skilled developers to join its Research and Development team. These posts all involve implementation and functional design work (in collaboration with other members of the R&D […]

News, Resources

Resource: Implementing Java as a CESK machine, in Java

New Article by Matt Might: CESK machines can concisely and efficiently model the semantics of functional languages like the lambda calculus. It’s less appreciated that CESK machines can do the same for object-oriented and imperative languages too. This post explores a CESK machine for a high-level, object-oriented bytecode inspired by the Dalvik virtual machine for […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Library as Platform

In May, 2007, Facebook was generating over 40 billion page views a month by providing its users with carefully constructed and controlled services. Yet on May 24, 2007 Mark Zuckerberg took the company in a new direction: developers outside of the company would be given access to many of the services and data at the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Bill-Crit-O-Matic

The prompt for this project is the Modern Language Association’s New Variorum Shakespeare Digital Challenge. The MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare is sponsoring a digital challenge and is seeking the most innovative and compelling uses of the data contained within its recently published volume, The Comedy of Errors. The MLA has […]

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CFP: EEBO, ECCO, and Burney as Tools for Bibliography and Book History

ProQuest‘s Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Gale‘s Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) and its Burney 17th- and 18th-Century Newspaper Collection are transforming the landscape of eighteenth-century scholarship and teaching. While these commercial databases are well known for affording unprecedented access to early modern works, their full potential has yet to be realized. Aimed at advancing […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. We invite submissions on any research broadly related […]