We are very happy to publish the report Digital humanities enhanced. Challenges and prospects of Ancient Studies. A retrospect on the DH-conference in November 2015 in Leipzig written by Julia Jushaninowa about DHEgypt2015 (Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond). Access the report here.
“Classical Philology goes digital” will take place at the University of Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017. Digital technologies continue to change our daily lives, including the way scholars work. As a result, the Classics are currently also subject to constant change. Having established itself as an important field in the scientific landscape, Digital Humanities (DH) research provides a number of new possibilities to scholars […]
The Digital Inclusion Fellowship is expanding and applications are now open for 22 Fellowship positions! Today, we are thrilled to announce, with the continued support of Google Fiber as well as new support from Capital One, we will have 22 Fellows in the next cohort of the Fellowship program starting this July. We have selected […]
Georgetown University is recruiting a Unit Head for Digital Services. From the ad: The Unit Head, Digital Services coordinates the planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, expansion and communication/outreach of the digital collections/projects, digital services, and institutional repository services, collections and content, including the design, deployment and maintenance of digital services and platforms which includes DigitalGeorgetown and […]
In May 2015, the International Rights Statements Working Group released two white papers with our recommendations for establishing standardized rights statements for describing copyright and reuse status of digital cultural heritage materials, and the enabling technical infrastructure for those statements. After working for nearly a year to implement the recommendations of the white papers, the […]
The recordings of last month’s conference are now up on YouTube. If you couldn’t make it to the conference, you can now watch the proceedings. Thanks again to everyone who made the event possible, and for all our presenters for allowing us to record and post their talks. Access resource here.
I’m pleased to announce the publication of Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, an MIT Press book to teach programming as a method of inquiry and creativity, no background required. Read full post here.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is recruiting a Digital Archivist. From the ad: The Digital Archivist will be responsible for implementing the plans and enabling acquisition, description, preservation, and creation of secure discovery and access to both analog-to-digital collections and born-digital collections. Leads exploration, evaluation, and implementation of related standards, methods, tools and systems, developing migrations […]
The University of Kentucky is recruiting a Director of Digital Services. From the ad: Responsibilities include: Serves on the SCRC management group that collaboratively administers Research Services and Education, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center, the King Library Press, Digital Services, the University Archives and […]
I am very pleased to announce the pending launch of CA: Journal of Cultural Analytics, an open-access web-based academic journal that will focus on the computational study of culture. CA’s mission is to use data-driven approaches towards the study of literature, culture and history. Read full post here.
