The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) project invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship valued at $32,500 per year for up to two years. The successful applicant will be expected to join the project on site in Victoria, BC, and work closely with the project director, developers, and research assistants in the next phase of […]
A new version of WordSeer is in the works. It’s been guided by the advice of our long-suffering literature-scholar collaborators. And by the tales of frustration and trial-and-error of the students of the Hamlet class who tried to use WordSeer to analyze parts of the play. We also thought hard about the text analysis process as a series of […]
Swiss Digitized Newspapers provides online access to titles digitized by the Swiss National Library and its cantonal partners. At present (July 2012) some of the available newspapers are: Confédéré 1861 – Le Journal du Valais 1848 L’Observateur 1846 – 1847 Le Courrier du Valais 1843 – 1844, 1849 – 1857 L’Écho des Alpes 1839 – 1847 […]
Using and building upon the successes of Hacking the Academy, Hack(ing) School(ing) will be a curated, multimedia “book” or “volume” or “collection.” We specifically invite you to submit posts, articles, artifacts, etc. that you believe would be relevant to a collection on Hack(ing) School(ing). What this book/volume/collection ultimately looks like is still to-be-determined; maybe it’s more than one “thing.” […]
Pundit is a novel semantic annotation and augmentation tool. It enables users to create structured data while annotating web pages. Annotations span from simple comments to semantic links to web of data entities (as Freebase.com and Dbpedia.org), to fine granular cross-references and citations. Pundit can be configured to include custom controlled vocabularies. In other words, […]
The ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012 represents the first major study into the current state of digitisation in Europe. It is the result of a survey carried out by the ENUMERATE Thematic Network, with the help of national coordinators, in 29 European countries. About 2000 institutions answered the open call […]
The 2012 meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place in San Antonio, Texas from March 22 to March 25. Information about hotel reservations is available at this page. The call for papers has been uploaded to the ASECS website (as a Microsoft Word file).
OCLC Research to Host “Wikipedia and Libraries: What’s the Connection?” Webinar on 31 July at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET (UTC 18:00) All are welcome to attend this free webinar with OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein to learn what’s happened between Wikipedia and libraries in the past and what it means for the […]
The DH Curation Guide is “a community resource guide to data curation in the digital humanities.” The DH Curation Guide: offers concise, expert introductions to key topics, including annotated links to important standards, articles, projects, and other resources. […] Data curation is an emerging problem for the humanities as both data and analytical practices become increasingly digital. Research […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » The Preservation of Complex Objects. Volume 1, Visualisations and Simulations. The POCOS project has released The Preservation of Complex Objects. Volume 1, Visualisations and Simulations. Here’s an excerpt: Let us say that there is an implication that an atomic digital object is a single file, and that this is synonymous with the notion […]
