From the announcement: In the three years since Debates in the Digital Humanities was first published by the University of Minnesota Press, debates in and around the digital humanities (DH) have continued to grow. Scholars now anchor major research projects in digital methods; institutions have reorganized, both structurally and financially, to make room for DH […]
From the announcement: The annual open DH Awards 2014 is now accepting nominations! Please nominate any Digital Humanities resource in any language that you feel deserves to win in any of this year’s categories. Nominations will be open until 2015-01-18. Voting will take place shortly after. To nominate something for the DH Awards 2014 visit […]
From the announcement: When the UNC Library launched Documenting the American South (DocSouth) in 1996, the project helped set the standard for publishing historic texts online. Nearly twenty years later, DocSouth is poised to reach a new set of readers—the computers that digest and find patterns in immense bodies of text through techniques known as […]
From the announcement: Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help transform the development, publication, and preservation of digital-born scholarly communication. (Stanford, CA)–Scholars of digital humanities and computational social sciences will soon have an academic publisher offering a validated, peer-reviewed process for their interactive scholarly research projects. Stanford University Press, with grant funding from […]
From the announcement The Hall Center for the Humanities seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Digital Humanities. In order to increase the profile of digital humanities scholarship at the university, the Hall Center seeks to appoint a recent PhD as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Digital Humanities who will work on a substantial research project […]
From the announcement: The Jisc Research Data Spring is a project that aims to find tools, software, and service solutions that will improve how researchers work, in particular how they use and manage data. The British Library Digital Research team are confident that infrastructures that deliver flexible and scalable access to large digital collections as […]
From the CFP: Following on the success of the first “Early Modern Digital Agendas” institute—an intensive survey of the most current resources and methods in digital research to be found in July 2013—”Advanced Topics” is a second three-week NEH institute to be hosted by the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Jonathan Hope, Professor […]
From the CFP: On 8 and 9 June 2015, the second DHBenelux conference will take place. The DHBenelux conference is a young initiative that strives to further the dissemination of, and collaboration between Digital Humanities projects in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg by hosting an annual conference in various institutions throughout these countries. The conference […]
From the report: The Digital Public Library of America launched on April 18, 2013, less than two years ago. And what a couple of years it has been. From a staff of three people, a starting slate of two million items, and 500 contributing institutions, we are now an organization of 12, with over eight million items […]
Several copyright exemptions relevant to educational fair use and online learning are up for comment at the US Copyright Office. See below to read the exemptions and comment. The United States Copyright Office is conducting the sixth triennial rulemaking proceeding under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 1201, which provides that the Librarian […]
