From the announcement: The University of Minnesota Press in partnership with the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, and digital development agency Cast Iron Coding has been awarded a $789,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch phase two of Manifold Scholarship, an open-source […]
From the post: On July 31-August 3, 2018, Digital Pedagogy Lab will offer an Introduction to Critical Digital Pedagogy course taught by Chris Friend, Director of Hybrid Pedagogy and Assistant Professor of English at Saint Leo University. This course will discuss, challenge, and experiment with various technological tools from the chalkboard to moveable chairs, networks, computers, mobile […]
From the announcement: The lives and activities of communities are increasingly documented online; local news, events, disasters, celebrations — the experiences of citizens are now largely shared via social media and web platforms. As these primary sources about community life move to the web, the need to archive these materials becomes an increasingly important activity […]
From the post: It was an altruistic mission: Offer free access to Wikipedia for people in developing countries, without requiring mobile data to access information. But the Wikimedia Foundation has announced it will wrap up its Wikipedia Zero program this year, ending partnerships with 97 mobile carriers in 72 countries who waived data fees to access the […]
From the post: On February 20, 2008 the Omeka team released its public beta, version 0.9.0., and last week, a few days shy of this 10-year milestone, we released version 2.6. Back in 2008, I don’t think any of us from the original team imagined Omeka celebrating its 10th Birthday. It is time to celebrate […]
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 […]
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 .
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. […]
From the post: Registration for the 2018 Digital Initiatives Symposium is now open! This year we are offering a choice of five workshops for the preconference on Monday, April 23. Read more here.
From the post: The speaker and workshop series on Digital Humanities & Social Justice at the University of Houston will explore the ethical concerns involved when creating digital projects and minority archives and how digital scholarship can be a site of social justice and activism. This series brings in leading scholars in the field of DH […]
