From the Call for Papers: This one-day conference will approach what it means to use big data to ‘do history’. Through a series of panel sessions we will address questions such as: What new opportunities can big data provide for historians? Can we retain the richness of history in big data, and what might historical […]
From the announcement: The fellow will have the responsibility to take a leadership role in the advancement of the work in the standardisation work package of the Parthenos project. In particular, he/she will be responsible to set up the basis of a comprehensive documentation of recommended standards (introductory material, schemas, samples), design the structure of […]
From the announcement: The Department of English at the University of South Florida seeks applicants for the DeBartolo Professor in the field of digital humanities. Literary or rhetorical field is open, but the candidate should be interested in bridging the three concentrations of literature, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing at the graduate level through […]
From the post: This blog will introduce text capture by describing the different methods with a focus upon historical documents. I will introduce the basics of OCR and rekeying with discussion of handwriting and voice recognition. Source: Text Capture and Optical Character Recognition 101
From the announcement: This post is a 12-month teaching fellow position available from the 1st September 2015. The successful applicant will deliver excellent postgraduate and undergraduate teaching across all the department programmes offered with a particularly focus on the rapidly growing MA in Digital Asset and Media Management (MA DAMM) as well contribute to core […]
From the post: Partnering with close to 100 research libraries from around the world, HathiTrust holds about 595 terabytes of digitized textual data — that’s about 157 miles, or 10,000 tons of text. In 2010, HathiTrust launched the HTRC to help researchers around the world accomplish tera-scale data mining and textual analysis. The HTRC is […]
Leaders from eleven research libraries, national libraries, and nonprofit image repositories have formed the International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium (IIIF). Until now, many of the Internet’s image-based resources have been locked up in silos, with access restricted to custom-built applications. The IIIF supports uniform display of images of books, maps, scrolls, manuscripts, musical scores […]
UPDATED APPLICATION DEADLINE The Chapman Center for Rural Studies, in the History Department at Kansas State University, invites applications for a two-year visiting assistant professor position beginning August 2015 to expand the Chapman Center’s engagement with digital humanities in undergraduate research and public history. This position will involve the curation and expansion of existing digital […]
Northeastern University is looking for a Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist who will help mobilize and design Library services supporting statistics and information visualization activities across the University. Source: Data Analytics / Visualization Specialist
The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2015, the 19th edition of the conference, is organized by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and will be held in Poznań, […]
