Job Announcements, News

Jobs: Program Director and Creative Director for new UC Santa Cruz MS in Games and Playable Media

At UC Santa Cruz we’re launching a new professional MS in Games and Playable Media, which will be offered through our Silicon Valley campus and will include working both with our current game faculty and with new personnel hired specifically for the program. We are currently in the selection process for the first position to […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

JDH Reader Survey Closes Tomorrow, May 3

Our reader survey on the Journal of Digital Humanities closes tomorrow, May 3, at 5pm. If you haven’t already done so, please take a few minutes to tell us what you value most about this publication. Your feedback will help us determine where to focus our attention as we plan for our second year. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/reader-survey/  

News, Resources

Resource: Creating Map Visualizations in <10 lines of Python

One of my goals when I started building Vincent was to streamline the creation of maps as much as possible. There are some excellent Python map libraries out there- see Basemap and Kartograph for more fun with maps. I highly recommend both of those tools, as they are both quite good and very powerful. I wanted something a little simpler, that […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFProposals: 2013 Digital Library Federation Forum

The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, to be held November 3–6, 2013 in Austin, Texas, is seeking “proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.” The DLF is seeking proposals that focus on the themes of digital technology design, management and assessment, data, and collaboration.

News, Resources

Resource: Roundup of HASTAC 2013 posts

What an amazing conference filled with inventive, kind, humorous and wickedly smart people. About 350 of you showed up and it was so much fun. Because it was such a busy conference and we didn’t all have a chance to see each other’s papers, we’re asking conference participants to post their talks here on HASTAC. […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: US Scholar Fulbright Opportunities in Digital Humanities and Digital Culture

The most recent application solicitation for US Fulbright Scholar grant opportunities includes many wonderful opportunities including ones in digital culture and digital humanities. Applications for the 2014-2015 academic year are due by August 1, 2013. The Digital Culture opportunity is in Norway and the Digital Humanities opportunity is in Ireland, and these are in addition to the All Disciplines […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Web Writing: Why & How for Liberal Arts Teaching & Learning: a born-digital book-in-progress

Call for Essay Ideas & Proposals (now thru June 15, 2013) Join our discussion to shape the direction of WebWriting, a book-in-progress sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning at Trinity College. This born-digital, open-access volume integrates why questions with online examples and tutorials to illustrate how faculty and students are doing this work. Topics include: Why should we integrate the web into […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Internship: Art Authority Summer Intern Program, year 3

Today we announced year 3 of our very successful summer intern program. As wediscussed last year in this blog, the Art Authority Summer Intern Program offers art and art history majors a 21st century alternative to traditional art docent internships. By working on our cutting-edge app and database, technology-focused students gain experience with and exposure to a set of […]