For this workshop, the e-Humanities Group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (http://ehumanities.nl) seeks contributions which address the above questions and critically examine the notion of ‘digital humanities’ from a variety of national and disciplinary perspectives.
Digital curation involves the selection, maintenance, dissemination, preservation and adding value to digital assets. Examples of these activities include the development of repositories for digital resources, the creation and/or selection of digital assets; creation and management of metadata; file format identification and management, and provision for dissemination and access to digital assets. Digital curation is a […]
Welcome to the MediaCommons site for the initial drafts of essays submitted to Academic Commons for open peer review on Gaming in Education. You can access the essays by title in the box to the left. Please leave any comments by clicking on the comment icon at the top right of each paragraph. You can see the […]
The open learning innovation contest invites innovators whose work embodies the principles of connected learning to submit their stories and experiences for consideration. They might be running online or offline courses, activities, learning programs, study groups, or hybrid classes or out-of-school (extra-institutional) activities having to do with independent learning and volunteer work. The contest focuses […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites its members to propose a Special Interest Group (SIG). By forming a SIG, those with similar professional specialties, interests, and aptitudes can exchange ideas, stay current, and mobilize to pursue common goals across the boundaries of ADHO’s individual Constituent Organizations. For example, ADHO’s first SIG, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH), aims to reduce barriers to communication and […]
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the second series of the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin [1]. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar [2], is organised in association with the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. It will run during the winter […]
Over the last two years, in over 200 posts, Play the Past has come to be a rather fantastic project. It’s a great body of work. I often find myself telling people that they need to read something from the blog on close readings of code, or about war gaming, or folklore and alchemy in Skyrim, or some of […]
To aid in navigating the behemoth that is the ALA Annual Conference, we’ve compiled a list of sessions that intersect in some way with the digital humanities. Thanks to all who responded to our call for suggestions. Have a session you’d like us to add? Shoot us an email or find us on twitter @dhandlib. And, of course, […]
THATCamp Publishing is an opportunity for the publishing community to discuss the practice and trajectory of scholarly communication. Both publishers and readers face the challenges of balancing print and digital methods of development, dissemination, and consumption. Everyone is experimenting new tools, structures, and services. Let’s get together to ask questions, discuss new approaches, share experiences, […]
Lots of active historians do digital work, and we should be doing more to connect with one another so that we know about ongoing work and can foster collaboration. So, register yourself, and you can tell us about your work, your ideas, and the ways that you are interacting with other digital historians. Join a […]
