From the ad: The position is located in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives, (SIA), and is part of the American Women’s History Initiative.The incumbent will work across the SI to access, research and produce digital resources and exhibitions pertaining to women scientist in American history. They will uncover the role of SI women scientist from the 19th […]
From the CFParticipation: The Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University will host a two-day workshop that provides an overview of a sample, practical digital editions creation workflow. This will feature both an open-lecture component led by developers and expert users of advanced technologies and “hands-on” sessions for participants that offer in-depth demonstrations of select tools […]
From the resource: A few years ago when I was taking a class in advanced cartography, I was introduced to ESRI Story maps, a webapp that allows you to blend text, maps, 3D scenes, images, and videos in order to tell your story and engage your audience. While Story Maps were initially made by ESRI […]
From the announcement: Early Modern Songscapes is a project exploring the circulation and performance of English Renaissance poetry. The recently released beta version of the project’s site includes a digital exploration of Henry Lawes’s 1653 songbook Ayres and Dialogues. The project is a collaboration between the University of Toronto (UoT), the University of Maryland (UMD), […]
From the announcement: Freedom on the Move (FOTM), an online project devoted to fugitives from slavery in North America, launches today, February 14, 2019. FOTM asks the public to help in creating a database that makes the stories and lives of fugitives from slavery in North America accessible. The website is designed for use by […]
From the CFP: The Digital Classicist invites proposals for the summer 2019 seminar series, which will run on Friday afternoons in June and July at the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London. We would like to see papers that address digital, innovative and collaborative research, teaching and practice in all areas of antiquity (including […]
About the opportunity: The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography is pleased to announce Material Maps in the Digital Age, a four-week NEH seminar (Monday, June 10 — Saturday, July 6th*) for college and university faculty. The seminar directors, Dr. James Akerman (a geographer and the Newberry’s Curator of Maps) and […]
From the ad: The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Digital Humanities invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of Digital Humanities to take up appointment on 1 September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. Candidates will have an outstanding record of international stature in research […]
About the opportunity: ‘Networking Archives’ (https://networkingarchives.org) is a three-year collaborative research project that will merge the early modern correspondence data collected in ‘Early Modern Letters Online’ with metadata from ‘Gale State Papers Online’. The resulting dataset and accompanying infrastructure will allow researchers to interrogate and analyse epistolary metadata to pose new kinds of questions on […]
About the report: The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) is excited to announce the publication of an important new report titled “A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition.” The report, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and authored by David Smith and Ryan Cordell of Northeastern University, outlines a set of […]
