Wow – Google Scholar ‘Updates’ a big step forward in sifting through the scientific literature | Impact of Social Sciences. I logged on to Google Scholar last week and discovered something very new. This “updates” thing was not there earlier in the day. So I clicked on the link and got to this page: Scholar Updates:…
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Manager, Digital Library Publication and Access at New York University Libraries. The New York University Libraries are recruiting a Manager, Digital Library Publication and Access. Here’s an excerpt from the ad (posting number: 20093885): Lead information technology projects to support the publication and use of digital scholarly materials: from DLTS digitization and…
Data without Boundaries, third call for proposals. Highly detailed or “confidential” microdata from other countries are often not available for research purposes. Or, if they are available, researchers have to go through diverse national accreditation processes and self-finance their access. To enhance access across borders to official microdata for comparative research, Data without Boundaries gives you the…
Basic page. Schedule: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week, Standard Work Week (M-F, 8:30-5:00) Please Note: Position may open to external application after August 10, 2012. Applications received by September 15 will be given first consideration. Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in New Haven, Connecticut. Conveniently located between Boston and New York, New…
DigiPal Call for Papers: “Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image” | Digital Resource for Palaeography. DigiPal One-Day Symposium 22nd November 2012, King’s College London The DigiPal team (http://digipal.eu/) are delighted to invite submissions for their second symposium at King’s College London. This year’s theme is the implications of the increasing reliance of the scholarly…
Research Developer (Art of Making; Making of Charlemagne’s Europe; Breaking of Britain) Research Developer (Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI)) Research Developer The post is located in the Department of Digital Humanities. The Department is an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities, and in…
Last Monday, I got to attend Edward Tufte’s one-day course. I was looking forward to a day of interesting examples, ideas, and discussions, but was disappointed by the amount of rambling and largely historical examples, with little connection to real, current visualization (or presentation) work. The Setting The course took place in the large ballroom…
Please consider contributing to an exciting 4Humanities campaign called “Humanities, Plain and Simple,”. This is a comprehensive and targeted project that calls out to individuals and groups inside and outside of academia to write statements, create short videos or audio recordings, produce eloquent photographs or drawings as to why the Humanities matter. How has humanities-based…
Registration is now open here for THATCamp Feminisms 2013 held at Scripps College in Claremont, Califormia March 15-17.
OeRC and the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London jointly held an invited workshop on 25 July 2012 on Digital Research Resources in the Arts and Humanities. The workshop was organized by David Robey and Andrew Prescott and took place at King’s. It was supported by the AHRC and JISC. This event reviewed…