The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature | .net magazine. One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – and to practise, you need to understand the tools available. In this article, I want to introduce you to […]
http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ Emory University Library has collected over ten million tweets from the Occupy Wall Street Movement, beginning on 13 October 2011. While tweets are public, they are not archived or available unless a third party collects them. With Emory’s collection, scholars can better understand the relationship between a movement and social media. In an age of digital […]
Tenure Track position: Director of Public History with DH Focus | HASTAC. The Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a director of the Public History concentration within the M.A. program in History to begin August 2013. We intend to appoint a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant/Associate Professor level. […]
Digital Cultural Heritage DC #DCHDC (Washington, DC) – Meetup. The inaugural meetup of the DCHDC will be on Thursday, September 20 at 7:00 pm at the upstairs bar at Stetson’s. We’ll start with three quick lightning talks, followed by spirited conversation. Lightning Talk Lineup: Viewshare and You: Digital Collection Visualization for the Rest of Us, Trevor Owens, Office […]
Using Git locally for a Subversion-based project (like BuddyPress) | Teleogistic. In the past, I’ve written extensively about using Git with WordPress projects. I’ve focused primarily on Git as the primary development channel, with SVN (in this case, plugins.svn.wordpress.org) used for distribution only. In contrast, I use Git for all my local development on the BuddyPress […]
Gates Foundation Offers Grants for MOOC’s in Introductory Classes – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to find out whether the massive open online courses that have proved so popular in advanced and often highly technical fields offer the same promise for remedial and introductory courses. […]
2012 NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting – Open to Public | National Endowment for the Humanities Come learn about using facial recognition software to unlock art historical mysteries, developing tools for building maps on the fly, employing gaming technology to help enrich archival collections, or discovering early writings of Abraham Lincoln with authorship attribution […]
Post Position » Friday’s the Deadline: Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games As mentioned here before, Ian Horswill, Michael Young and I are editing a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (T-CIAIG), and your submissions are invited. Specifically: The T-CIAIG Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games solicits […]
How Can A Digital Humanist Get Tenure? | HASTAC. What counts for tenure for those in the digital humanities? This is a persistent question in any new field (not that digital humanities is “new” at this point but its methods are not the “scholarly monograph published by a university press” widely recognized by colleagues in […]
Over the last few months a team of librarians, archivists, curators, engineers and other technologists in the NDSA have been working to draft a simple chart to help prioritize digital preservation work. After iteratively developing this document and workshopping it at Digital Preservation 2012 we are excited to publicly share it for comment.
