The NeDiMAH working groups “Digital Scholarly Editions” and “Using Large-Scale Text Collections for Research” are organising an expert meeting and a workshop (both on 21 November 2012) at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, in The Hague, The Netherlands. Proposals are invited before 10th of September 2012.
CFP: K’zoo 2013 Critical Remediation: Intersections of Medieval Studies and Media Theory « Digital Medievalist. This panel has been sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Columbia University, and we welcome one-page proposals (250-300 words) from scholars of all levels. They may be sent along with a completed participant information form (found athttp://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to Heather…
Scholars’ Lab. If you’re fluent in English and another language, and would love to help with the Neatline project, please consider contributing a translation for our Neatline plugins! We’re using a service called Transifex to manage translation work. To get started, just sign up for a free account on Transifex (or log in using your Twitter or…
Announcing CFP: Digital Media and Learning Badge Development Research Competition | HASTAC. We seek research proposals that support and inform the design, development, and deployment of the digital badges and badge systems in any of these categories: The Digital Media and Learning Badges for Lifelong Learning general category, which supported the development of badges and badge systems…
The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to Epistemologies? » Journal of Peer Production. From the perspective of social organization, Free Software can be conceived as a form of critique by adaptability and modifiability, as pointed out by anthropologist Christopher Kelty [Two Bits, 2008], standing outside institutionalized forms of power and providing working…
We are looking for ten bloggers to participate in an exciting new project exploring the relationship between analysis and creativity across a number of disciplines and a range of activities. The project will run from September 2012 – August 2013 and will explore a variety of questions: What is the relationship between analyzing a text…
To find out whether search-by-example works, we’ve designed a five-minute study around three Shakespearean themes. There are three systems: one search, and two different example-based ones. Participants are shown an example of a theme, and asked to use a system to find as many relevant results as they can in five minutes. The systems and theme…
The Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies is looking to help facilitate the work of students and scholars by aiding in the development of research-oriented databases related to scholarship in religion and new media. Proposals are invited for database projects to be housed on the “Researcher’s Toolbox” section of the Network for New Media, Religion and…
What topics should be covered in the 2nd ed. of the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities?
Big data and uncertainty in the humanities September 22, 2012, The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas. This conference seeks to address the opportunities and challenges humanistic scholars face with the ubiquity and exponential growth of new web-based data sources (e.g. electronic texts, social media, and audiovisual materials) and digital methods…