ACLS invites applications for the eighth annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, thanks to the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship […]
We are looking for an innovative, collaborative, and forward-thinking teacher-scholar to serve as a key contributor to the Singapore Centre for the Study of the Moving Image, a newly proposed research centre bridging the WKWSCI and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) is an academic department in the School of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London. The department is looking for a number of skilled developers to join its Research and Development team. These posts all involve implementation and functional design work (in collaboration with other members of the R&D […]
New Article by Matt Might: CESK machines can concisely and efficiently model the semantics of functional languages like the lambda calculus. It’s less appreciated that CESK machines can do the same for object-oriented and imperative languages too. This post explores a CESK machine for a high-level, object-oriented bytecode inspired by the Dalvik virtual machine for […]
ProQuest‘s Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Gale‘s Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) and its Burney 17th- and 18th-Century Newspaper Collection are transforming the landscape of eighteenth-century scholarship and teaching. While these commercial databases are well known for affording unprecedented access to early modern works, their full potential has yet to be realized. Aimed at advancing […]
The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. We invite submissions on any research broadly related […]
At the 2012 MLA, conference attendees packed many sessions on the digital humanities (DH), reflecting the growing interest in this domain. Yet many newcomers to digital humanities lack opportunities to connect with the DH community, get help from experienced practitioners with conceptualizing and launching a project, or begin building the skills they need to realize their projects. This four-hour preconvention workshop […]
This updated post is written for cultural heritage professionals seeking a quick-start guide for those interested in learning more about what the digital humanities are and what kinds of projects, tools, and possibilities are open and available. I also want to contribute to the current conversation (which you can join as well), that seeks to […]
This is part 3 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in GeoServer and Neatline. In part 1 of this series, we used ArcMap to convert a static image into a georeferenced .tiff file. In part 2, we post-processed the file with gdal to remove the […]
The Cornell University Library is seeking a Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator. Reporting to the AUL for Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services (DSPS), the Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator will provide leadership in conceptualizing and implementing new digital scholarship and preservation initiatives with a focus on needs assessment, requirements analysis, and business planning. Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator […]
