Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Library Fellow, University of Cincinnati

From the ad: The Digital Scholarship Library Fellow will work within our transdisciplinary research teams composed of faculty from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields. This position will actively support research projects and assist faculty and graduate students in the use of digital methods, including but not limited to: […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Meet Omeka Classic 2.6

From the announcement: Here are some of the key features updated with Classic 2.6: We’ve upgraded the WYSIWYG and HTML editor tinyMCE. Not only does it have a cleaner look, but improved functionality. Thanks to contributor luku, Browse Tags has additional functionality: Default display of tags for both items and exhibits, with the ability to […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Scholarly Communication Symposium 2018

From the announcement: This symposium will explore the ways that promotion and tenure criteria are evolving in the 21st century to incorporate accomplishments in digital scholarship, interdisciplinary research, and alternative impact metrics.  Featured speakers and panels will analyze and make recommendations concerning different aspects of this evolution. Read more here .

News, Resources

Resource: Training Opportunities in Digital Scholarship

About the resource: Part of the mission of the SSRC Digital Culture program, and of Parameters as a platform, is to bring together disparate trainings and resources for scholars hoping to increase their digital literacy and familiarity with digital tools and methodologies used in social science. To that end, we compiled a list of current […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

About the opportunity: The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures will explore how the book’s evolving material qualities promote and circulate cultural knowledge. As Nicole Howard, in The Book: The Life Story of a Technology, writes, “No other technology in human history has had the impact of [the book].” In addition to looking at the history […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: MLA 2019 – What Do We Teach When We Teach DH?

From the CFP: Over the last decade as digital humanities research has flourished, the MLA convention—as well as other venues—has witnessed increasingly vigorous discussions about teaching digital humanities. We now find ourselves in a discipline that is not so new (acknowledging, of course, that DH is as old as the computer itself) and simultaneously at […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Digital Humanities Journals Survey

About the survey: The main goal of this survey is to develop an expert survey based journal ranking for the Digital Humanities field. This ranking would benefit scholars and practioners in this field by providing them with target outlets for their work; by identifying streams of research; by allowing to showcase accomplishments to tenure and […]

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Announcement: DH Awards 2017 – Voting Announcement

From the announcement: DH Awards 2017 is open for voting at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2017/voting/ until the end of 25 February 2018. Versions of this announcement in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish are available from the website. Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open annual awards run as a DH awareness raising activity. […]

News, Resources

Resource: Preserving Accented and Non-Roman Characters in CSV Workflows

From the post: Digital work in and around the Humanities often involves moving data from one system or format to another. That data often involves complex textual materials in multiple languages and writing systems. One commonly used format is the “Comma-Separated Values” text file. It’s not uncommon to find that characters not used in English […]