The Fred W Smith National Library at Mount Vernon seeks an innovative librarian/historian to take a lead role in the advancement of the Estate’s scholarly digital initiatives. He or she will assess and integrate existing tools for digital scholarship and participate in maintaining and evaluating the Library’s electronic and digital resources. The successful candidate will […]
Knowledge Machines is a free one-day symposium which will showcase different approaches to using digital methodologies for the humanities. Videos, discussion points, and related materials will also be made available before and after the day on this website’s blog, in order to move the discussion about the future of the humanities out of the usual […]
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the third series of the Digital Classicist New England (Boston?). This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar, is organized in association with the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University. It will run during the spring term of the […]
The English Department at Gonzaga University invites applications for one full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position (3/3 teaching load) to teach composition and/or rhetoric starting September 2015. Expertise in one or more of the following areas: multimodal composition, digital humanities, creative non-fiction, film, multi-cultural literacies, writing program administration. Source: Assistant Professor, English
Thanks to Kalev Leetaru, a Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University, you can now head over to a new collection at Flickr and search through an archive of 2.6 million public domain images, all extracted from books, magazines and newspapers published over a 500 year period. Eventually this archive will grow to 14.6 million images. Source: […]
PeerLibrary is a rapidly expanding open source project that seeks to provide a collaborative layer of knowledge over academic publications by allowing users to share real-time highlights and annotations. We need your help to keep it growing. We are currently looking for programmers, designers, and community managers. These are volunteer positions*, and we are seeking […]
Digital Humanities Quarterly (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/), an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities is currently inviting scholars from all disciplines to join our team of regular peer reviewers. Our peer reviewers perform two important tasks: first, to ensure that the materials accepted for publication are of the highest quality, and […]
Bilbo identifies the bibliographic references in journal articles and semantisizes their constituent parts. It then identifies the DOIs corresponding to these references and, where they exist, adds them to the end of the reference as a hyperlink, making it possible to directly access the cited resource. Developed by OpenEdition Lab, Bilbo is now deployed on […]
Here’s the first public announcement of the first official program offered by the Futures Initiative (Graduate Center, CUNY) in conjunction with several other partners. Our goal is to model success stories (and challenges overcome) on the way to inventive, digital, experimental new forms of dissertations. Source: What Is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media
PlotDevice is a Macintosh application that lets you write Python scripts to generate 2D graphics using simple drawing commands. Under the hood, your code drives the system’s Quartz imaging engine, giving your scripts the same graphical power as a full-fledged Cocoa app. Your code can combine basic geometric shapes, typography, freeform Bézier curves, and a […]
