News, Reports

Report: Digital Curation and the Cloud: Final Report

JISC has released Digital Curation and the Cloud: Final Report. This is a revised version of the draft report that was released earlier this year. Here’s an excerpt: Digital curation involves a wide range of activities, many of which may be suitable for deployment within a cloud environment. These range from infrequent, resource-intensive tasks which […]

Job Announcements, News

Postdoc: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and New Media – AWID

The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (IWGS), the University of Winnipeg. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Open until filled. Description: The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (IWGS) at the University of Winnipeg invites applications for a half time Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and New Media starting as soon as possible, and lasting up to […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013

Museums and the Web 2013: 17-20 April 2013 at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, Oregon The MW program is built from the ground up, based on your suggestions for sessions, papers and presentations. Proposals are encouraged on any topic related to museums creating, facilitating, delivering or participating in culture, science and heritage through networked technologies […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: HASTAC Scholars Nominations now open

We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting nominations for HASTAC Scholars for 2012-2013. The HASTAC Scholars program is an innovative student community. The program is comprised of graduate & undergraduate students who come from dozens of disciplines at 75+ universities. The Scholars are all working at the intersection of technology and the […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships

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 […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: 3 Jobs for DH developers, Kings College London

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 […]

News, Resources

Resource: Implementing Java as a CESK machine, in Java

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 […]