From the GitHub repository: Humaniformat is a human names parser for R. With it, you can parse names, distinguishing salutations, suffixes, and first, middle and last names. Humaniformat recognises compound last names (and preserves them) from a wide range of cultures, although the name format itself is somewhat Western-centric (it assumes, for example, that first name […]
From the ad: The ICAT Immersive Environment Specialist (IES) works in a team setting with researchers from science, engineering, education and the arts to produce content for use in a variety of virtual and augmented reality applications. The primary role of the IES is to provide support to Virginia Tech researchers, programmers, producers and marketing […]
From the announcement: The completion of the third phase of the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project is as good a time as any to release to this world a handy spreadsheet containing details of the Greek manuscripts held by the British Library. The spreadsheet includes a brief description of the content and links to Digitised Manuscripts […]
From the announcement: This person is responsible for, or will assist with, supporting the College of Arts & Humanities’ Center for Humanities & Digital Research (CHDR) digital infra-structure along with various CHDR initiatives, including the conceptualization, design, and implementation of faculty digital humanities (DH) projects; the submission of federal and other grants to support new […]
From the announcement: The Price Lab invites applications for the 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities. One award is available to an untenured scholar in the humanities whose PhD must have been received between December 2007 and December 2015. The DH Fellow is required to spend the nine-month academic year (September 2016 […]
From the CFP: Whatever the reason, Comparative literature as a field of inquiry has not had as much engagement with Digital Humanities as some other humanities disciplines recently have. However, a fertile ground may well exist for a deep critical engagement of Comparative Literature with Digital Humanities — given, on the one hand, the interdisciplinary […]
From the announcement: This position would work with and direct students with a programming background, and occasionally gets pulled in to teach sessions or give workshops on aspects of programming for digital humanities courses, (un)conferences, and workshop series. The atmosphere is one of collaboration and learning. Source: We are hiring a Digital Humanities Programmer!
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released a recording of “Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective,” a presentation by Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University), Lisa Spiro (Rice University), and Xuemao Wang (University of Cincinnati) given at the Spring 2015 meeting. The presentation shares results from a Mellon-funded […]
From the post: There has been a lot of talk about GitHub at Digital Pedagogy Lab this week. Following are a few resources for learning and using GitHub for things like collaborative corpus-based projects, website publishing, etc. Read More: Getting Started with GitHub
From the post: The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) invites interested and qualified individuals or firms to submit a proposal for development related to Heidrun and Krikri, DPLA’s metadata ingestion and aggregation systems. Source: DPLA: New DPLA Contract Opportunity: Metadata Ingestion Development Contractor
