News, Resources

Resource: Oral History Digital Toolbox: My Current Favorites

From the post: Here are some of my favorite digital tools that may prove useful for core aspects of the oral history process.  I will be adding to this on a continuous basis, adding new tools and categories of tools periodically, so stay tuned. Collection Management, Exhibit, User Experience OHMS (enhancing online access, indexing, transcript synchronization, metadata, […]

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Opportunity: MITH Summer Audiovisual Data Curation Intern

From the post: The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland’s digital humanities institute, is seeking a graduate student intern to assist with a data curation and stewardship project during the summer 2016 term to assist with the assessment, organization and curation of our collection of audiovisual recordings covering MITH’s speaker […]

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Funding: RDA Europe Travel grants for DH2016 RDA/ADHO Workshop

From the announcement: RDA EU3 has approved three travel bursaries of €500 each to support participation in  RDA/ADHO Workshop: Evaluating Research Data Infrastructure Components and Engaging in their Development at DH2016 in Krakow, July 12-16, 2016. In order to apply for this grant, applicants must reside/work in Europe. The purpose of the grants is  to […]

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Resource: R packages, secret keys, and testing on Appveyor

From the resource: In the wake of defending my dissertation and landing a new job, I’ve been relaxing by polishing up an R package, PastecR that wraps the API for Pastec, an open-source fuzzy image matching engine. The creator of Pastec recently launched a hosted version of the service of the service. I’ve just updated […]

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Resource: 1.8 Million Free Works of Art from World-Class Museums

Since the first stirrings of the internet, artists and curators have puzzled over what the fluidity of online space would do to the experience of viewing works of art… Below the list of galleries, find links to online collections of several hundred art books to read online or download. Continue to watch this space: We’ll […]

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Report: The Programming Historian’s Commitment to Diversity

If you spend too much time inside a project, you soon become unable to see its faults. At The Programming Historian, I suspect we fell victim to that problem.  We are not so proud to admit that amongst our contributing authors, we’re predominantly male: Only 7 women and 23 men. We’re also predominantly white and North […]