This session asks: What counts as data in the humanities? Can humanists develop models for preserving and sharing this data? Send 250 word abstracts to spencer.keralis@unt.edu by 15 March 2012; Spencer Keralis (spencer.keralis@unt.edu) and Korey Jackson (kbjack@umich.edu).
Under supervision of the Head of the Digital Initiatives Group (DIG), the Digital Humanities Developer is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining a variety of digital library projects and products for the humanities and social sciences. She or he will work closely with the entire DIG team (which includes librarians and specialists in assessment, digital […]
The University of Virginia Law Library invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities position that will commence on Sept. 1, 2012 and end on Aug. 31, 2013. This position is renewable for up to three years and offers compensation of $45,000 plus health insurance. The successful candidate’s independent research will be supported […]
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide NCAW is soliciting potential articles that take full advantage of new web technologies either in the research or the publication phase, or both. The Mellon grant is intended to help authors in the development phase of their articles as well as to aid NCAW in the implementation phase. NCAW is seeking scholarship that engages in one or more […]
In the very useful survey of the “history web” in their 2005 book Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web , Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig identify the range of genres that encompassed the historical content on the web: archival sites, exhibits and scholarly essays, teaching and learning sites, and discussion forums […]
By Scott Weingart
“The Scientific Revolution” is as apt a name as any for a period which set the world in motion. Something feels fundamentally different on this side of its amorphous borders than what came before, and this difference is felt most keenly in the sciences. This is not a paper about the scientific revolution; it will not reveal the steady stream of precedents before the great publications of Copernicus and Vesalius.
The kit is aimed at libraries, archives and other cultural intuitions staff and gives basic guidance on how to organize an event. It includes some tips for organizing an event, as well as free handouts, videos and web resources that staff can use. Also provided is a list of additional resources, including some format-specific advice.
This is a key role in the Department of New Media, which is undertaking an exciting and extensive programme of work including the implementation of a museum-wide digital strategy, the progression of the new IWM website and leading on the creation and delivery of multimedia in the galleries together with online, mobile and other strategic […]
Yesterday I live-tweeted the Digital Publishing Forum “Measuring the Reader” at University College London. I storified my tweets and added a brief introduction. I really enjoyed it. The next one is on 21 March and will be “concerned with the huge changes in reference publishing over the last decade and how it has gone digital in a spectacular way, […]
The service is ultra simple in purpose and function. It provides: Information on licenses for open data, open content, and open-source software in machine readable form (JSON) A simple web API that allows you retrieve this information over the web — including using javascript in a browser via JSONP
