The Centre for Disruptive Media is organizing an event, “Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?” Guest speakers Janneke Adema (Coventry University, UK), Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France), Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US), Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK), and David Parry (Saint Joseph’s University, US) will discuss numerous topics concerning academic publishing platforms. Register and find out more here.
Dartmouth has received gifts totaling $20 million to establish two interdisciplinary faculty groups, called academic clusters, to help elevate the institution as a global leader in the fields of neuroscience and digital humanities and to attract exceptional scholars whose work will benefit individuals and societies around the world. Read full announcement here.
MITH would like to call attention to a new opportunity from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to create new web-based creative projects. The Library of Congress has developed a user-friendly Application Program Interface (API) to explore the data contained in Chronicling America. While previously working at the Library of Congress, MITH’s Lead Developer…
Following the success of our first workshop back in May we’ve been busy developing and planning a next round of events. First up is a day-long workshop on ‘Crowd-Sourcing, Co-Creation and Co-Curation in the Cultural Sector.’ This event will take place on December 1, 2015 at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. The workshop’s sister event is a Knowledge…
From the announcement: The Tropy team is surveying humanities scholars to identify various academic research practices for the collection and management of archival images. Tropy is a major new RRCHNM initiative led by Sean Takats and Stephen Robertson. Thanks to the generous support of theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation, Tropy will fill a crucial need in the…
NYPL Labs and the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy are excited to announce the launch of Emigrant City, the Library’s newest, online participatory project. Emigrant City invites you to help transcribe recently digitized mortgage and bond record books from the Library’s collection of Emigrant Savings Bank records….
The University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Read announcement here.
DHCommons is the official Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)-sponsored publication of centerNet, the international network of Digital Humanities Centers with the support of the European DARIAH infrastructure in the Arts and Humanities. The DHCommons journal overlays and interacts with the DHCommons project registry and will provide peer review for mid-stage digital projects. Read more…
Digital humanities scholars from NC State University and Texas A&M University are launching a powerful new system to help researchers more quickly and accurately sift through hundreds of thousands of archives and articles related to materials dating from 450 A.D. to the 20th century. The new tool, called BigDIVA, will be formally unveiled later this…
We are pleased to announce funding for a new project to develop a freely licensed and open-source software tool, called Tropy, which will allow archival researchers to collect and organize the digital photographs that they take in their research, associate metadata with those images, and export both photographs and metadata to other platforms. Generously funded by…