Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Projects Manager, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington, D.C.

Title: Digital Projects Manager Immediate Supervisor: Director of Education Programming Summary: Ford’s Theatre Society seeks a Digital Projects Manager to be responsible for research and development of digital projects relating to the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, as well to provide guidance and support for other digital learning initiatives at Ford’s Theatre. To apply, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: Data Information Literacy (DIL) Symposium

Data Information Literacy (DIL) symposium hosted by the Purdue University Libraries on Sept 23rd and 24th. No registration for viewing the live stream is required. We hope that you will be able to join us, virtually, for this event.  The DIL Symposium will be recorded and made available afterwards through e-pubs, Purdue University’s Institutional Repository. http://laurientaylor.org/2013/09/13/data-information-literacy-dil-symposium-hosted-by-the-purdue-university-libraries-sept-23-24/

News, Resources

Resource: Digital Environmental Humanities Network Workshop Notes

These are Geoffrey Rockwell’s conference notes on a Digital Environmental Humanities Network workshop. This workshop was help Sept. 7th and 8th, 2013 in Montreal and organized by Stephanie Posthumus and Stefan Sinclair. There isn’t a web site for the workshop, but there is a web site for the emerging area, Canadian Environmental Humanities. philosophi.ca : […]

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Resource: Geospatial Historian tutorials

The Geospatial Historian  is a tutorial-based open access textbook, modeled on the Programming Historian, designed to teach humanists practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs. Geospatial Historian | beta website.

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CFP: 3rd International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications International, 2014

Scope: The 3rd International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA) aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on databases, data warehousing, data mining, data management, data security and other aspects of information systems and technology involving advanced applications of data. View CFP here.

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CFParticipation: Speaking in Code, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia

Speaking in Code is an NEH-funded symposium and summit that will bring together approximately 20 accomplished digital humanities software developers at the University of Virginia Library Scholars’ Lab. Together, we will give voice to what is almost always tacitly expressed in our work: expert knowledge about the intellectual and interpretive dimensions of DH code-craft, and […]

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Job: Postdoc, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University

Humanities + Design at Stanford University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Implementation grant for “Networks in History.” The Fellow will join a research team working within Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA, http://cesta.stanford.edu/) on the design of visualization techniques that emphasize the contextualization and interpretation of data in cases where we lack the metrics for […]