An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 1 I came to NDIIPP expecting to hear that institutions and the public weren’t prioritizing digital preservation, and that the next wave of librarians would need to shout from the rooftops to raise awareness that digital objects are facing mass obsolescence. I expected a clear, clean outline…
In February, I visited Matthew Kirschenbaum’s #ENGL668K Introduction to Digital Humanities course at the University of Maryland, and I brought to class an activity that I had been mulling over in my own mind for a long time, called the Topic Modeling Game. The game is designed to teach the basic principles of topic modeling with LDA…
Once upon a time in a land far far away there was a beautiful princess named Snow Byte. Snow Byte was a wonderful child who loved and was beloved by all who knew her, except for one. Her father, the king, had married a new wife and, as is often the case in fairy tales,…
We will resume our normal publishing schedule on March 19.
The official job ad for our new director is now up on our university’s HR site. Please encourage great people to apply! George Mason University invites applications for the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) is approaching its 20th anniversary as a…
Twenty years ago Roy Rosenzweig imagined a compelling mission for a new institution: “To use digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.” I’ve been incredibly lucky to be a part of that mission for over twelve years, at what became…
Two reports have recently been published as the outcome of surveys on special collections within research libraries in the UK and the US. Here are some highlights from the findings.
ViralSearch [microsoft.com], developed by Jake Hofman and others of Microsoft Research, visualizes how content spreads over social media, and Twitter in particular.
European Research Council funded PhD studentship in the Department of History at Lancaster University Applications are invited for a PhD studentship funded by the European Research Council. The successful applicant will join the Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project, a major research team of historians, geographers and others who are working with large data resources – statistical,…
SAH Archipedia is a media-rich, fully searchable, online encyclopedia of the built world that launched in October 2012. A joint venture of the Society of Architectural Historians and the University of Virginia Press, the SAH Archipedia received major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Graham Foundation.