These visiting fellowships are intended to enable scholars working in computational humanities to conduct research and to participate in the academic life of the eHumanities Group of the KNAW.
We are looking for a Computer Scientist to join GLAMMap, an ERC Proof of Concept project which builds a software tool to visualise cultural heritage metadata on geographical maps. Computer Scientist/GLAM metadata specialist within the ERC Proof of Concept GlamMap – Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Digital curation involves the selection, maintenance, dissemination, preservation and adding value to digital assets. Examples of these activities include the development of repositories for digital resources, the creation and/or selection of digital assets; creation and management of metadata; file format identification and management, and provision for dissemination and access to digital assets. Digital curation is a…
Cross-posted at my Emerging Tech in Libraries blog Backstory In my text mining class at GSLIS, we had a lot of ground to cover. It was easy enough to jump into Oracle SQL Developer and Data Miner and plug into the Oracle database that had been set up for us, and we moved on to…
We are thrilled to announce an exciting job opportunity on the leadership team here in the Department of Digital Research & Scholarship. Read on for more details! Head of Scholars’ Lab Are you an experienced digital humanities scholar-practitioner with a strong background in project management and public service? The University of Virginia Library seeks an…
A milestone: my list of Digital Humanities GIS projects has now topped 100 entries. It currently stands at 103 entries, the latest to be added being the Google-sponsored Routes of Sefarad, mapping Jewish Heritage in Spain, and Placing Literature, an ambitious attempt to crowd-source the locations of novels. The original aim was to catalogue academic…
In conjunction with the University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities, the University of Michigan and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) are pleased to announce the 2014 UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. The prize, an advance contract, will be awarded for an innovative and important project that displays a…
Welcome to the MediaCommons site for the initial drafts of essays submitted to Academic Commons for open peer review on Gaming in Education. You can access the essays by title in the box to the left. Please leave any comments by clicking on the comment icon at the top right of each paragraph. You can see the…
I’ve written on making forms accessible before in the WCAG series, but I thought I’d document some real examples using the work that I’ve been doing. This one is a fairly simple, but important example especially since we’re moving to PDA (patron driven acquisitions). http://dhnow.org/14zLIqp
Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, three workshops on humanities data curation will be offered in 2013-14. Find out how to apply below. Next Workshop Location: College Park, MD Dates: October 16-18, 2013 Apply by: August 7, 2013 Thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, limited funding will be…