While we run our own 15 course Digital Scholarship Training programme for staff at the Library* we are always on the look-out for further training opportunities for colleagues. The following is a small selection of what’s on our radar at the moment. If you can recommend others coming up please do let us know in the […]
The most recent application solicitation for US Fulbright Scholar grant opportunities includes many wonderful opportunities including ones in digital culture and digital humanities. Applications for the 2014-2015 academic year are due by August 1, 2013. The Digital Culture opportunity is in Norway and the Digital Humanities opportunity is in Ireland, and these are in addition to the All Disciplines […]
Today we announced year 3 of our very successful summer intern program. As wediscussed last year in this blog, the Art Authority Summer Intern Program offers art and art history majors a 21st century alternative to traditional art docent internships. By working on our cutting-edge app and database, technology-focused students gain experience with and exposure to a set of […]
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), in partnership with the OpenGLAM initiative, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Wikimedia NYC, is now accepting applications for an Open Data Fellowship for Summer 2013. This paid, 8-week fellowship will serve two roles: Wikipedian-in-Residence for member institutions in the METRO consortium Facilitator for institutions interested in pursuing broader open data initiatives METRO is a non-profit […]
The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital Historyis sponsored jointly by the AHA and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. It was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007), the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, to honor […]
US Scholar Fulbright Opportunities in Digital Humanities and Digital Culture | laurie n. taylor The most recent application solicitation for US Fulbright Scholar grant opportunities includes many wonderful opportunities including ones in digital culture and digital humanities. Applications for the 2014-2015 academic year are due by August 1, 2013. The Digital Culture opportunity is in Norway and the Digital […]
The Renaissance Society of America and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) are jointly offering a prize that seeks to recognize and encourage the scholarly use of the vast range and depth of Renaissance materials made available by digitization. The purpose of the prize is to recognize and reward original research that makes substantial and significant use of digitized archives of […]
The project is an empirical extension of the Code/Space book (Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge) published in Software Studies series by The MIT Press (2011). It focuses on the intersection of smart urbanism, ubiquitous computing and big data from a software studies/critical geography perspective, comparing Dublin and Boston and other locales. http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/student.pdf
2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool | Shreds and Patches. The 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool introduces students to the tools and methods required to creatively apply information and computing technologies to cultural heritage materials and questions. The CHl Fieldschool is a unique experience in which students come together for 5 weeks to collaboratively […]
European Research Council funded PhD studentship in the Department of History at Lancaster University Applications are invited for a PhD studentship funded by the European Research Council. The successful applicant will join the Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project, a major research team of historians, geographers and others who are working with large data resources – statistical, […]
