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Announcement: Presenting the 2020-21 CDH Dataset Curation Grant Recipients

What can sixteenth-century maps teach us about climate change? How do musical patterns feature in the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti? How do Chinese national minorities feature in the collections of state-run Chinese archives? These are just some of the questions inspiring the work of this year’s recipients of the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) Dataset […]

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Announcement: Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities: pre-launch thoughts

Our co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities will be published shortly. Like many such volumes, this has matured in to being over time, and our own picture of what the volume is about, and what it should be for, has evolved as we have read and reviewed the 27 chapters of cutting-edge […]

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Announcement: Cancellation of DH2020 Conference in Ottawa

From the announcement: Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, in consultation with the DH2020 Local Organizers and Program Committee, has decided to cancel this year’s in-person conference in Ottawa, which was scheduled for 19-25 July 2020. This has been an exceptionally difficult decision, but individual and communal health is […]

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Announcement: Happy 404 Day! 

From the announcement: Saturday is April 4th (4/04), and here at the Internet Archive we’re marking a new holiday: 404 Day! We’re using this date to celebrate the work that’s being done to end the dreaded 404 error, record changing webpages, and preserve the internet for all to enjoy. We spoke with Gary Price—librarian, editor […]

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Announcement: Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books

From the announcement: To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension […]

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Announcement: Archival Research in a Time of Social Distancing

From the announcement: All over the world, archives and libraries are shutting their doors as covid-19 spreads. These closures mean that researchers can’t use the not-yet-digitized collections that exist in those places. Or does it? As we’ve been teaching people about Tropy, one thing we’ve learned is that researchers nearly always want to be generous […]

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Announcement: DH Awards 2019 Results

From the announcement: The winners of the DH Awards 2019 are as follows. Once duplicates were removed, the ballots as cast by members of the public over two weeks voting for one or more of the categories chose the winners. Sorry if your favoured resource did not win — open public votes are popularity contests […]

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Announcement: DH Awards 2019 Voting

From the announcement: Please vote for the following resources from 2019 in the DH Awards 2019. Have a look over the resources in each category and then fill out the form linked to at the bottom of the page in order to vote. For frequently asked questions please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2019/faqs/ for more information. We are sorry if […]

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Announcement: THATCamp retrospective and sunsetting

From the announcement: We plan to thus “turn off” the THATCamp website on Friday, February 28th (just before Leap Day!). We still encourage people to organize THATCamps and to use the #thatcamp hashtag, and we ask that you still register your future planned THATCamp event with a new Google form, but we will no longer […]