The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet is meeting to debate the scope of fair use. Read full post here.
This two-week institute supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will focus on the Civil War’s array of visual media—including the fine arts, ephemera, and photography—to assess how information and opinion about the war and its impact were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ understanding…
Archive Team collected the data and made the dataset available for bulk download. If you like, you can also just access the 51,000 MIDI music files from the data set from the Internet Archive. Beyond that, because the data was available in mass, the corpus of personal websites became the basis for other works. Taking the…
Marla Jaksch and Angel David Nieves are Guest-Editing a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. The Special Issue theme is “Intersections: Heritage, Development, Digital Technologies, and Pedagogy in Africa and the African Diaspora.” JITP welcomes work that explores critical and creative uses of interactive technology in teaching, learning, and research. Read full…
On January 22, 2014, George A. Smathers Libraries and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will release the first round in a series of oral history interviews with civil rights veterans of the Mississippi freedom movement for UF’s week of celebration surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The collection, “The Mississippi Freedom Project,” will be…
Reporting to the Chief Library Officer of the New York Public Library, the Director, Digital Experience leads the experimentation, incubation, implementation and portfolio management of the digital user experience. The roles purpose is to build and deliver a set of inspiring service offerings to every single user whether they act alone or in a collaboration…
Along with the less-than-romantic scenes of butchery and betrayal, murder and mayhem (see our previous post Sex and Death in the Roman de la Rose), there are of course many miniatures in Harley MS 4425 which depict an idealised courtly world and its inhabitants. As well as serving as a narrative accompaniment to the text, these…
The Digging into Data/Global Currents team at McGill University is offering a 2-year master’s fellowship based in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. The deadline for applications is Jan 30, 2014, for studies commencing in the Fall 2014 semester. Read full announcement here.
We now invite applications for the Spring Academy in Digital Humanities offered by the University of Antwerp. Our intensive, full-week program takes place from 31 March to 4 April 2014. The target audience consists of (early-stage) researchers in the Humanities, who wish to apply digital methods in their own research practice but who, so far, have…
We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2014 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, processing, description, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern hand-written and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or analysis of these resources is welcome to participate….