One of the properties of human relationships is that they are messy, inexact, and complex. We should not expect to find one perfect way to group or cluster a network of human relationships. If we do find such a perfect solution, maybe we have over-simplified the problem… Finding logical and plausible clusters in complex systems…
ChronoZoom, an open source project initiated by Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley enables students to explore, create, and tell stories with timelines directly from within a web browser. As the 2013 recipient of the SXSW Interactive Award for Best Educational Resource, ChronoZoom is developing lesson plans to teach historical thinking concepts to middle and high school students….
The National Endowment for the Humanities is now accepting proposals for the National Digital Newspaper Program. The National Digital Newspaper Program is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to develop a searchable database of historically significant newspapers published in the United States. The Library of Congress hosts the site for this project at Chronicling America, a…
Apply for 2014-2015 Distinguished Fellowships at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This is open not only to academics (with Ph.D., any level) but also to people doing Digital Humanities related work (programming, visualization, journalism, etc.) Note: Deadline for applications was extended November 13. The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center,…
The MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research will publish a special issue in autumn 2014 titled “Digital Humanities – Now and beyond”. The editors welcome submissions to the following topics of interest: – What have we learned from the digital humanities so far? – What is the future of the digital humanities? – How…
The New Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), consisting of the libraries of The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Frick Collection, seeks an experienced information professional to coordinate a two year grant funded program to expand and improve its program for collecting and archiving web content of specialist art resources. See full ad…
The University of South Carolina seeks an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities. See job ad here.
The HILT conference is being held at the University of Maryland August 4-8, 2014. Registration is now open. See information here.
The peer-reviewed, online art history journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, has funding available for the development of articles that take full advantage of new web technologies either in the research or the publication phase, or both. Read full post here.
The University of Leicester in Leicester, England i seeking a Solutions Developer within their library. See job ad here.