I was asked by the excellent Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to speak to her PLP class about MOOCs, and, while we had what i thought was an excellent forty minute chat, there were tons of comments that i never had the chance to address. As i look over the questions they asked, I see that in answering […]
The TEI has proven to be one of the great success stories in the Digital Humanities. It has emerged as the de facto standard for online critical scholarly editions as well as a format that promotes interoperability and exchange. This success has also prompted a new direction in TEI research: the development of infrastructure to […]
CURATEcamp Processing 2012 was held the day after the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) sponsored Digital Preservation annual meeting. The unconference was framed by this idea: Processing means different things to an archivist and a software developer. To the former, processing is about taking custody of collections, preserving context, and providing arrangement, […]
The NeDiMAH working groups “Digital Scholarly Editions” and “Using Large-Scale Text Collections for Research” are organising an expert meeting and a workshop (both on 21 November 2012) at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, in The Hague, The Netherlands. Proposals are invited before 10th of September 2012.
BackStory with the American History Guys is a nationally-distributed, weekly, one-hour public radio program hosted by three historians who explore the historical contexts of current events. BackStory seeks an energetic, thoughtful, and creative associate producer to join the show’s production team. This individual will work with two other associate producers and a technical director, under […]
To sum up my series of posts on different considerations for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage projects I thought it would be helpful to lay out a set of questions to ask when developing or evaluating projects. I think if a project has good answers to each of these four genres of questions it is well on its way toward […]
CFP: K’zoo 2013 Critical Remediation: Intersections of Medieval Studies and Media Theory « Digital Medievalist. This panel has been sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Columbia University, and we welcome one-page proposals (250-300 words) from scholars of all levels. They may be sent along with a completed participant information form (found athttp://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to Heather […]
Report on Economic Impact of Digital. Neil Beagrie has just announced the availability of a new report of the Economic Impact Evaluation of the UK Economic and Social Science Data Service (ESDS). This is an important contribution to a literature that is still far too sparse, and I believe it will be of interest to […]
The Key Questions of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects | Trevor Owens. To sum up my series of posts on different considerations for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage projects I thought it would be helpful to lay out a set of questions to ask when developing or evaluating projects. I think if a project has good answers to each of these […]
Scholars’ Lab. If you’re fluent in English and another language, and would love to help with the Neatline project, please consider contributing a translation for our Neatline plugins! We’re using a service called Transifex to manage translation work. To get started, just sign up for a free account on Transifex (or log in using your Twitter or […]
