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News, Resources

Resource: On Digital History: Information about Digital Preservation Tools

This week the Digital POWRR project staff has posted a large amount of information describing approximately eighty tools used in digital preservation activities. See http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/tool-grid/. While a relatively small number of general, integrated front end/ingest applications like Archivematica and Curator’s Workbench are currently available, individuals and institutions pondering a digital preservation initiative can also bring […]

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Job Announcements, News

Job: University of Leipzig, Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities

In February 2013, the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities announced possible jobs. Funding from the European Social Fund has now been finalized ( “http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/02/reinventing-humanities-publication-project-receives-e1-1-million-grant-from-the-saxon-ministry-of-science-and-european-social-fund/”>http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/02/reinventing-humanities-publication-project-receives-e1-1-million-grant-from-the-saxon-ministry-of-science-and-european-social-fund/) and we are pleased to announce two positions: one for someone to supervise systems and text processing workflow; the other for someone with expertise in interactive design. Applicants should have completed […]

News, Reports

Report: “And If Your Head Explodes With Dark Forebodings Too”: The Dark Side of the Digital (Conference Review)

From May 2-4 the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted a conference titled “Dark Side of the Digital” (Twitter: #c21dsd). The conference brought together scholars of media, literature, sociology, communications, law and policy, and the general orientation of the conference was to explore, in a relatively free environment, the worries and concerns scholars have about […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Does This Post Make Me a Tool?

My response to OPEN THREAD: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS A HISTORICAL “REFUGE” FROM RACE/CLASS/GENDER/SEXUALITY/DISABILITY?, http://dhpoco.org/2013/05/10/open-thread-the-digital-humanities-as-a-historical-refuge-from-raceclassgendersexualitydisability/#comment-1907: This is a rich and multifaceted discussion. I just want to add one observations that it has made me ponder. The discussion has made me think about the metaphor of “tools” in digital humanities work. This makes sense, because the word […]

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Open Thread: The Digital Humanities as a Historical “Refuge” from Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability?

Read David Golumbia’s post on the “Dark Side of the Digital” conference yesterday? Consider this: In 2007, Martha Nell Smith observed: When I first started attending humanities computing conferences in the mid-1990s, I was struck by how many of the presentations remarked, either explicitly or implicitly, that concerns that had taken over so much academic work in literature—of gender, race, […]

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News, Resources

Resource: Creating Map Visualizations in <10 lines of Python

One of my goals when I started building Vincent was to streamline the creation of maps as much as possible. There are some excellent Python map libraries out there- see Basemap and Kartograph for more fun with maps. I highly recommend both of those tools, as they are both quite good and very powerful. I wanted something a little simpler, that […]

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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFProposals: 2013 Digital Library Federation Forum

The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, to be held November 3–6, 2013 in Austin, Texas, is seeking “proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.” The DLF is seeking proposals that focus on the themes of digital technology design, management and assessment, data, and collaboration.

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News, Resources

Resource: Roundup of HASTAC 2013 posts

What an amazing conference filled with inventive, kind, humorous and wickedly smart people. About 350 of you showed up and it was so much fun. Because it was such a busy conference and we didn’t all have a chance to see each other’s papers, we’re asking conference participants to post their talks here on HASTAC. […]

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Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: US Scholar Fulbright Opportunities in Digital Humanities and Digital Culture

The most recent application solicitation for US Fulbright Scholar grant opportunities includes many wonderful opportunities including ones in digital culture and digital humanities. Applications for the 2014-2015 academic year are due by August 1, 2013. The Digital Culture opportunity is in Norway and the Digital Humanities opportunity is in Ireland, and these are in addition to the All Disciplines […]

By: sasha