Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for PhD interns to join the social media collective for Spring and Summer 2012. For these positions, we are looking primarily for social science PhD students (including communications, sociology, anthropology, media studies, information studies, etc.)
THATCamp Publishing in Baltimore, an “unconference” that explored some pressing new questions, such as
1. Who should publish digital scholarly research?
2. Should digital academic research be published by the university press, or the university library?
3. How should the process of peer review change?
4. And finally, who should provide the work that goes into producing a publication—editing, peer review, administration and graphics?
Columbia University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian. Duration: “date of hire until June 30, 2014 (with possibility of extension).”
Registration is now open for the “Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital research Conference” to be held at the University of Melbourne on the 12th-14th December, 2011.This is a free event, but please register soon to help planning.
A digital version of the workshop on Managing Research Assets handout, followed by a link dump of favorite posts about developing and refining digital research workflows.
Ted Underwood has been talking up the advantages of the Mann-Whitney test over Dunning’s Log-likelihood which is currently more widely used. I’m having trouble getting M-W running on large numbers of texts as quickly as I’d like, but I’d say that his basic contention–that Dunning log-likelihood is frequently not the best method–is definitely true, and there’s a lot to like about rank-ordering tests.
Before I say anything about the specifics, though, I want to make a more general point first, about how we think about comparing groups of texts.The most important difference between these two tests rests on a much bigger question about how to treat the two corpuses we want to compare.
This report sets out to identify examples of integration between datasets and publications. Findings from existing studies carried out by PARSE. Insight, RIN, SURF and various recent publications are synthesized and examined in relation to three distinct disciplinary groups in order to identify opportunities in the integration of data.
Humanities computing is undergoing a redefinition of basic principles by a continuous influx of new, vibrant, and diverse communities or practitioners within and well beyond the halls of academe. These practitioners recognize the value computers add to their work, that the computer itself remains an instrument subject to continual innovation, and that competition within many disciplines requires scholars to become and remain current with what computers can do. Topics in the Digital Humanities invites manuscripts that will advance and deepen knowledge and activity in this new and innovative field.
The Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English tenure-track position with specialization in Internet Linguistics or related field of intersection between Linguistics and Digital Humanities to begin late August 2012.
Conference takes up the “nonhuman turn” that has been emerging in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over the past few decades. To be held by the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, on May 3-5, 2012.