Across the field of health and wellness there is a lot of talk about data, from consumer self-tracking and Quantified Self data, to data-driven, personalized health care, to data-intensive, crowd sourced, scientific discovery. But what are these different stakeholders talking about when they talk about data and are they talking about the same thing? At…
The Center for Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College is currently offering a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on digital scholarship. Thanks to the continued generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Occidental’s CDLR will be hiring two fellows for terms beginning with the 2014-15 academic year. Read the full posting here.
The Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage announces several fellowships for early stage researchers. See full announcement here.
HASTAC seeks volunteers to help organize and promote the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop. See volunteer opportunity here.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies welcomes proposals for a conference on African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture. Read the full call for papers here.
NINES announces a new series of blog posts that will focus on uses of Juxta Commons. See the call for blog posts here.
A list of recent digital humanities syllabi can be found here.
In…Age of Empires, we see that an easy to grasp, difficult to master theory can sit inside an equally easy to play, difficult to master strategy game, a point where complex historical modelling – even if those models are incomplete or overturned – has a positive influence on the development on a style of gameplay….
The following series of blog posts by Joshua Sternfeld, Katharina Hering, Kate Theimer, and Michael Kramer is based on our session at the AHA meeting in 2014 on Digital Historiography and the Archives. We conceptualized the session as an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion. Short presentations by each panelist led to a rich and multifaceted discussion with the audience….
The Wellcome Library announces the free availability of over 100,000 images from their historical holdings. See the announcement here.