From the announcement: The Scrypt software is a tool for computer-assisted decipherment of ancient alphabetic inscriptions, enabling the user to choose a set of possible readings for each cell of the inscription, and to automatically launch dictionary searches for selected regions of the text in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew dictionary.The name Scrypt is inspired by a […]
From the announcement: The Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, June 17-19, 2015. The call for papers includes a “Special Focus for 2015: From the Digital Humanities to a Humanities of the Digital” Source: CFP: New Directions in the Humanities Conference
From the announcement: As of January 1, 2015 our Open Access policy will be effective for all new agreements. During a two-year transition period, publishers will be permitted to apply up to a 12 month embargo period on the accessibility of the publication and its underlying data sets. This embargo period will no longer be […]
From the call for papers: A CFP for RSA 2016, 31 March – 2 April, Boston MA We welcome proposals for papers, panels, and or poster / demonstration / workshop presentations on new technologies and their impact on research, teaching, publishing, and beyond, in the context of Renaissance Studies. Examples of the many areas considered […]
From the post: From the holdings of Library and Archives Canada, to the Internet Archive, or smaller repositories like digitized presidential diaries, or Roman Empire transcriptions, there are a lot of digitized primary sources out there on the Web. You don’t need to be a “digital historian” to realize that sometimes there is a benefit […]
From the Post: The Medieval Studies Program at Binghamton University (State University of New York) seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies in the field of Digital Humanities, beginning in Fall 2015. The appointment will be held jointly in Medieval Studies and either the Department of English or the Department of Romance Languages (French). Candidates for […]
From the post: The Kansas State Historical Society seeks to hire a Digital Archivist to support the State Research Collections Division’s management of born-digital and digitized archival collections, including but not limited to the Kansas Memory digital archives. See the full post here.
From the post: Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Consult on grant requirements related to data management, data sharing and publication Arrange and conduct data interviews with researchers Analyze, collect and curate electronic data, including bibliographic data Help establish standards and best practices for displaying data Assist with testing of new tools and visualization […]
From the post: Successfully mining scholarly literature at scale is inhibited by technical and political barriers that have been only partially addressed by publishers’ application programming interfaces (APIs). Many of those APIs have restrictions that inhibit data mining at scale, and while only some publishers actually provide APIs, almost all publishers make their content available […]
A one-week institute for community college faculty to engage with new digital methods, tools and practices for humanities teaching and scholarship. Participants will work with experts to translate current theory and practice in DH for the unique learning needs of community college students in open-access institutional contexts. Ultimately, this institute, which includes a public keynote […]
