AskHistorians is an all-volunteer, multi-platform new media forum with over 350,000 subscribers, making it the largest historical space of its kind on the internet. Unlike most outreach, the forum is structured like highly public “town hall meeting” on a global scale—a question-and-answer session in which knowledgeable experts publicly interact with individual questioners while an audience […]
The FMSH (Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homie) is pleased to publish the third call of its grant program in digital humanities. Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, FMSH will co-finance transatlantic collaborative projects in the field of the digital humanities. Read full CFP here.
Princeton University is seeking a lead developer. From the ad: Do you want to build the future of Digital Humanities at Princeton? The Center for Digital Humanities is hiring a Lead Developer to create a new world class DH R&D Team to develop the next generation of Digital Humanities projects and tools in collaboration with […]
The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange is imagining a collaborative, multi-institutional approach to supporting digital scholarship efforts. Their hope is that you would take a few moments to review what we’ve posted there. You can vote up and comment on the ideas that you like the best. Read full CFP here.
We invite members of the NYC DH community to participate in the NYC DH Workshop Week—like Restaurant Week for DH! At the link below, you may sign up to teach a workshop on a topic of your choice during the week of February 8-12 (except on 2/9, which is the day of the general meeting). Read full CFP here.
Sam Houston State University is looking for an assistant professor (Digital Resources Librarian). From the ad: Experience with creation and/or management of digital objects in various formats. Knowledge of and ability to use computer information technologies, especially, digital image technologies, effectively. Should be familiar with metadata standards. Experience with web page development and design. See […]
The Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress houses over 225 manuscripts; most of them in Hebrew but with a fair sampling of manuscripts also written in cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish. It is a highly diverse collection, dating from the 11th to early 20th centuries and drawn from Jewish communities throughout […]
From the ad: The Darrell W. Krueger Library at Winona State University seeks an energetic, proactive, knowledgeable, and innovative person for the tenure track position of Web and Digital Services Librarian. Read full ad here.
Hi everyone, I would like to introduce the project I am developing now at Michigan State Univeristy. I am currently working collaboratively with Andrew Barsom, a fellow doctoral student in the Department of History at MSU, on the Baptismal Record Database for Slave Societies (BARDSS) project. This online database, which is part of MSU’s Slave […]
Digitization and archiving of historical materials is an intensely political process. While technical aspects are still crucial to having a functioning online resource, we must realize that cultural heritage informatics projects are done for specific reasons. I’d like to elaborate on one of my favorite, if still partially flawed digital resources: the SABC Truth and […]
