As previously announced, the inaugural cohort of National Digital Stewardship Residents will present a symposium titled “Emerging Trends in Digital Stewardship” on April 8, 2014. This event, hosted by the Library of Congress, IMLS, and the National Library of Medicine will be located at the National Library of Medicine’s Lister Hill Auditorium and will consist…
Episode 79: Paul Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University, discusses building an international database of biographical information on all enslaved Africans. He outlines this digital history project’s contribution to the study of slavery, race, and broader themes in global history. This is the first part of a two-part series recorded…
The Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), together with the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE) and its research programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces (IPSE)) — and the University of Luxembourg’s Master’s in Contemporary European History, are pleased to organise the DHLU…
The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers. The result of a partnership between the New York Public Library and the Maryland Institute…
The University of South Florida (Tampa) will host this free, one-day colloquium to explore the implications of Big Data for Writing Studies. At USF, faculty and doctoral students have been working towards applying Big Data research tools and methods in the context of university writing programs. Thanks to our institution’s use of My Reviewers (see…
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Library offers a two-year CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries supporting digital humanities scholarship, investigating emerging collaborative research practices and developing a pilot infrastructure to support this research. To this end, the University Library seeks an energetic and creative postdoctoral fellow who will demonstrate innovative thinking and a…
Smithsonian X 3D launches a set of use cases which apply various 3D capture methods to iconic collection objects, as well as scientific missions. Learn about the fascinating features of the new Smithsonian X 3D Explorer and how to navigate, explore and manipulate 3D collection objects. This article gives you a comprehensive overview. Continue reading…
I’ve taught “Introduction to Omeka” many times at various THATCamps, but I’ve never done more than work from an outline. Today, however, I wrote it all down, and I am posting it for your edification here. The text is below, and here is a PDF: Introduction_to_Omeka_Lesson_Plan. I’ve marked the PDF with a CC-BY license, and all…
This is the second in my series of posts on the Old Bailey Online (OBO) corpus. I’ve downloaded all of the trial transcripts from 1674 to 1834 (find out how on the Programming Historian 2), which is about 100,000 trials and 51 million words of text. In the last post I looked at the impact of editors…
Ohio University Libraries seeks a proactive and dynamic Assistant Dean for Collections & Digital Initiatives. The successful candidate must be comfortable in a fast-paced atmosphere, energized by an exciting future, and be able to engage our stakeholders and provide leadership and strategy for the management and development of collections and digital initiatives. Read the job…