CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Call for Papers on Digital Curation

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 […]

News, Reports

Report: Introducing myself to MALLET

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 […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Are you the new Head of Scholars’ Lab?

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 […]

News, Resources

Resource: Digital Humanities GIS projects revisited

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 […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Prize: The University of Michigan Press/HASTAC 2014 Publication Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities

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 […]