News, Resources

Resource: Folger Digital Texts: Shakespeare’s Plays, Cutting-Edge Code: A Powerful Research Tool for Scholars

The Folger is delighted to announce the launch of Folger Digital Texts. These are reliable, expertly edited, and free digital Shakespeare texts for use by researchers. Starting from the Folger Editions of Shakespeare’s works edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine,Folger Digital Texts uses XML to create a highly articulate indexing system. Researchers can read the plays […]

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Resource: The player: a new way of viewing digital collections at Wellcome Library

Since 2010, the Wellcome Library has been digitising a significant amount of material related to the history of genetics. As part of this project, we’ve been working with Digirati, our software partners, to develop a tool to display all of our digitised content, including cover-to-cover books, archives, works of art, videos and audio. The outcome of […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Oxford Internet Institute – 4 New positions

We are currently recruiting for the following 4 new positions: Researcher Research Fellow Research Fellow Researcher Please see our Visitor Programme page for information about our Visitor Programme, including Visiting Fellowships and Associateships, and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Oxford Internet Institute – People – New positions.

Announcements, News

Announcement: CUNY Graduate Center Digital Fellows Site Launched

GC Digital Fellows. The CUNY GC Digital Fellows site has launched The GC Digital Fellows work with Graduate Center faculty members on digital scholarly projects, design websites for special initiatives, receive skills training workshops, and, more broadly, explore new ways for Graduate Center faculty, students, and staff to share their academic work through new technological […]

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Resource: How to Download Multiple Records using Python

Thoughts on Public & Digital History by Adam Crymble: How to Download Multiple Records using Python. I’m pleased to announce my latest endeavour to teach historians how to program computers in aid of their research has been published and is freely available on the Programming Historian 2 website. Full Lesson: Downloading Multiple Records Using Query Strings The […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science

CFP: “Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science” « The British Modernities Group. We invite paper, poster, or panel proposals that consider perspectives on media, literature, and information science related but certainly not limited to the following: Text mining, big data, and digital archives Computer programming Digital culture and internet studies New media and gaming […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries

Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL) | Stanford University Libraries. Purpose Stanford University Libraries offers a prize to recognize and celebrate innovation through programs, projects, and/or new or improved services that directly or indirectly benefit readers and users.  The goal of this prize is to single out for community attention and to celebrate […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Call for nominations for 3 new aaDH Executive Committee positions

Call for nominations for 3 new aaDH Executive Committee positions – aaDH: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) invites nominations for three new Executive Committee positions. The Association seeks to elect three Ordinary Members for 3-year terms beginning in 2013. To be eligible, candidates must be current members of the Australasian […]