The historical record of the American Civil War includes a vast amount of visual material—photographs, illustrated news periodicals, comic publications, individually-published prints, almanacs, political cartoons, illustrated envelopes, trade cards, greeting cards, sheet music covers, money, and more. The era’s visual media heralded an unprecedented change in the production and availability of pictorial media in everyday […]
What does a code-focused digital dissertation look like when it’s done? And without chapters to divide the work ahead of you, how do you keep your doctoral research on track? I’m sharing the list of deliverables I’m creating for my dissertation, as well as some practices that have helped me keep being excited about my […]
The organizers are happy to present the programme for The Future of Historical Network Research Conference, 13-15 September in Hamburg/Germany. We look forward to meeting a lot of you there!
I am delighted to announce the release of a report, executive summary, data, and slides from the Scholarly Communication Institute’s recent study investigating perceptions of career preparation provided by humanities graduate programs. The study focused on people with advanced degrees in the humanities who have pursued alternative academic careers. Everything is CC-BY, so please read, […]
Sheila Brennan, Associate Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, shares her cheat sheet from talks she gave on the four P’s of digital project outreach at the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ meeting and the recent One Week | One Tool summer institute. The […]
* Coordinate and/or lead cross-functional digital humanities project teams and collection digitization teams comprised of internal and external partners. Work in close partnership with the Manager of Digital Services, the Head of Digital Art History, and the Digital Library Steering Committee; monitor and document projects from initiation through completion, interfacing with internal and/or external partners […]
Using a demo reconciliation service developed by Michael Stephens as a model, Ted Lawless put together a basic reconciliation service for the JournalTOC data that queries the JournalTOC API and translates the response to the format that OpenRefine is expecting. The code is available on Github.
The Volkswagen Foundation offers up to 40 Travel Grants for young researchers who wish to attend the conference. Recipients of the travel grants are required to present their project in a three minutes “Lightening Talk” as well as on a poster in a poster session.
Three-day seminar-workshop on the use of Humanities computing methods in Historical Studies organized by the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities, the Departments of History and of Languages and Cultures, and the Ghent Center for Slavic and East European Studies, in cooperation with the Flemish Medieval Studies Workgroup and the Henri Pirenne Institute of Medieval Studies.
We’ve organized all the Points of View columns on data visualization published in Nature Methods and provide this as a guide to accessing this trove of practical advice on visualizing scientific data.
