Join the team at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. We are seeking an experienced research programmer who will provide technical expertise for research projects in the digital humanities. The Research Programmer will work with senior MITH staff to develop new methods and tools for the exploration and […]
The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) project invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship valued at $32,500 per year for up to two years. The successful applicant will be expected to join the project on site in Victoria, BC, and work closely with the project director, developers, and research assistants in the next phase of […]
I’m venturing into the world of open-source by releasing a program I used in a recent research project. The program tries to tackle one of the fundamental problem facing many digital humanists who analyze text: the gap between manual “close reading” and computational “distant reading.” In my case, I was trying to study the geography […]
Currently there is a rather wonderful raproachment between historical geographers and historians; with archivists and librarians (as usual) providing the meat, gristle and spicy practical critique. This is brilliant. These are cognate disciplines which need to be in constant dialogue. The habits of mind and analytical tools of geographers need to inform our understanding of […]
We are pleased to announce the release of the second issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities. In the introduction to our first issue, we explained how the journal’s content came directly from the writing, coding, and projects of our field’s community of practitioners, without a traditional academic publication’s process of submission. We think it […]
Editors’ Note: In February the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum at the Smithsonian Institution released their collection metadata on GitHub using the CC0 Creative Commons license. Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections. Or, “what can you learn about 270,000 records in a week?” by Mia Ridge Museum collections are often accidents of history, the […]
R, the open source statistical software environment, is powerful but can be a challenge to approach for beginners.
The digital revolution brings us all kinds of cool tools that make it easier to study, teach and present history. Interactive timelines are one of my favourites. Compared to their analogue versions, the benefits are clear: you can zoom in and out on time, minimize and maximize text boxes, add pictures and video, cooperate, share, […]
The Archaeological Museum of Salonica holds one of the largest and most diverse collections of ancient sculpture in Greece. The register, which is kept in the Cast Museum of the University of Salonica along with the photographical archive, contains about 1500 entries. The objects were newly measured, described and recorded. The sculptures were photographed from […]
In the past decade, literary scholars have increasingly turned their readerly attention from symptoms to surfaces, even as a variety of innovative approaches–from book history and media studies to digital humanities and performance studies–have nudged literary studies beyond “close-reading.” Such hermeneutical shifts invite us to rethink how we teach what we do, yet the teaching […]
