From the CFP: The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. DEADLINE EXTENDED to September 26, 2016. Read […]
Michigan State University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian. From the ad: We invite an inventive and service-oriented person to join an expanding cross-functional team which is dedicated to supporting faculty and student use of digital information and computationally-based methods to achieve scholarly and research goals…The Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian will work with a […]
Civil War historian Edward Ayers will be giving a talk at Washington and Lee University talk on September 22 called “Civil War History and Digital Humanities.” The talk is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Digital Humanities Committee and funded through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read full announcement here.
From the CFP: From smart homes to smart cities, digital processes now underlie our everyday lives in ways that are difficult to see. While the computer screen has long served as a way to understand the demarcation between digital and non-digital, online and offline, we have entered a situation in which the line is fuzzier […]
We are looking for individual research projects which make use of Europeana Collections for research purposes: employing state of the art tools and methods in the Digital Humanities to address a specific research question. We expect to see applications deploying as much of the Europeana data (e.g., the API, metadata) as possible. You should be […]
From the ad: The Historical Institute / Center for Contemporary and Digital History University of Luxembourg has obtained a large grant from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg in the framework of the so-called PRIDE-program, enabling the creation of a Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) and opens up to 13 positions for PhD students (Doctoral candidates) […]
From the resource: In part 1, I showed you how to generate a list of URLs that you could then feed into `wget` to download information. In part 2, I showed you how to use `jq` and `jqplay` – via the amazing Matthew Lincoln, from whom I’ve learned whatever small things I know about the subject […]
From the CFP: We’re excited to announce the third of three Library 2.016 online mini-conferences: “Libraries of the Future,” October 6th, 2016, from 12:00 – 3:00pm US-Pacific Time (click for your own time zone). As libraries shape their futures – and adapt to the future needs of their communities – what are the near- and long-term trends […]
The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will take place in Edinburgh from 20-23 February 2017. The organising committee are now inviting submissions. IDCC, now in its 12th year, brings together digital curation professionals and educators with data producers and consumers to consider digital curation in a multi-disciplinary context. The theme for this year’s conference is embedding digital curation. Read more here.
Join us at “Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News,” where we will explore solutions to the most urgent threat to cultural memory today – the loss of online news content. Journalistic content published on websites and through social media channels, is fragile and easily lost in a tsunami of digital content. Join other […]
