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Report: What Have the Romans Ever Mapped for Us? Results from the Latin Geographic Tradition

Having recently completed our first content workpackage (CWP1), dedicated to Early Geospatial Documents from the Latin Tradition, we’d like to take this opportunity to share the annotation data that we’ve compiled so far. Overall we have completed annotating place references in 33 documents (41 if we include additional language versions of the same document). Within […]

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CFParticipation: Crash Course Digital Humanities 2014

.entry-header October 20-24, 2014: Crash Course Digital Humanities, Amsterdam Location: Waag Society, Amsterdam During the last decade the humanities have witnessed an explosive growth in using digital tools. While this trend has been beneficial for much humanities research, it also threatens to create a gap between humanities scholars who have and scholars who haven’t acquired […]

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Resource: Train a Custom Model for Book Title Recognition using OpenNLP

OpenNLP provides trained models for identifying Parts of Speech (POS). It also provides trained models for Named Entity Recognition (NER), the ability to identify common structures such as names, locations, organizations, among other things. These models are useful for general language processing requirements, but I am working in the domain of literature, and additional knowledge […]

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CFP: NEH Workshop on Digital Methods for Military History

Northeastern University’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, in collaboration with the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities and the Society for Military History,  invites applicants for participation in an NEH Workshop on Digital Methods for Military History, a workshop designed to help scholars whose work focuses on the history of war and warfare  to learn […]

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CFP: National Colloquium on Digital Scholarship

The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library welcomes proposals for panels, papers, and presentations that address pedagogical approaches for using digital tools in humanities, science, and social science classrooms. See full posting here.

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Job: Linux Systems Administrator at Digital Humanities Lab at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media within the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University is seeking a full-time Systems Administrator to maintain and grow the technical infrastructure of the center that includes 23 servers and a complex set of networked connections, storage, databases, software, programming languages, and operating […]

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CFP: Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin

We invite submissions on any kind of research which employs digital methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to enable a better or new understanding of the ancient world. We encourage contributions not only from Classics but also from the entire field of “Altertumswissenschaften”, to include the ancient world at large, such […]

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Job: Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Sherman Centre increasingly engages in a wide range of activities that support and build the McMaster digital humanities (DH) community. A critical need that has become apparent in the course of this work is the inclusion of DH skill instruction, methodology, and theory in the curriculum, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.  Working […]

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CFP: Reading Modernism with Machines

Each submission should offer a case study of modernist literary and cultural analysis conducted using a computational approach. While methodologies should be outlined, the majority of each submission should be reserved for humanistic discussions, which should be based on, or supplemented by, any electronic analyses. See full posting here.