Ithaka S+R is launching a new training course starting in January 2014, Sustaining Digital Resources, specifically designed for leaders of digital projects who are developing sustainability plans for the digital resources they have created. Our focus is not on the technical aspects of preservation, but encourages participants to define the longer-range goals for their projects,…
The American University in Cairo is recruiting a Digital Collections Archivist. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The Digital Collections Archivist plays a leadership role in digital initiatives, including building collections of digitized and born-digital archival materials, and facilitating access to those collections. The position holder reports to the University Archivist and supervises the RBSCL’s…
Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology – Deadline Extended to October 1 Digital technologies are driving important changes in archaeology. Despite the increasing acceptance of digital technology in daily life, however, determining how to assess digital scholarship has proved difficult: many universities remain unsure about how to evaluate digital work along side more traditional…
In 2012 I started supervising an English undergraduate dissertation: this was a online digital edition and it was my first experience of supervising a student’s digital project. What follows is a joint blog post of two parts – one from me and the other from Jess MacCarthy (the student) – that reflects upon our experiences….
My publisher Bloomsbury Academic made available Open Access edition of my new book Software Takes Command. The edition contains complete text of the book. It uses a new digital publishing software from Issuu. This link will take you directly to the book (you may need to wait a few seconds before it loads): Software Takes Command…
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. Read Full Post Here
Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of…
APPLICATIONS OPEN! Five Solutions to What? Historical scholarship is increasingly digital; and yet we do not have an agreed form of best practices for ensuring that digital scholarship lasts. Five Solutions is looking for five scholars able to outline a solution to the issues of sustainability now facing historians. Read Full Post Here
This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire. To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence. To all viewers, the map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency, about the…
The Journal of Digital Humanities: Post-Publication Review or the Worst of Peer Review, by Adeline Koh – August 29, 2013 The problems of traditional peer review are well known. Peer review is not transparent; it takes too long; the true blindness of peer review is questionable, especially in small fields; its gatekeeping function encourages the…