Resource: Special Issue of the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). Special issue on corpus and computational linguistics, philology, and the linguistic heritage of humanity.
Category: News
Resource: Yale U. Press Digitizes Stalin’s Massive Personal Archive
Yale U. Press Digitizes Stalin’s Massive Personal Archive | Publishing Perspectives. Over the last two years Yale University Press and the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History have been quietly digitizing Stalin’s personal archive, consisting of thousands of documents, letters, and books, that passed through the Soviet leader’s hands. Vadim Staklo, the editor overseeing […]
Resource: Digital Pedagogy Roundup
Digital Pedagogy Roundup – First Half of 2012 » Roger T. Whitson, Ph.D. For those of you who don’t know, I was a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech for two years. First-year fellows participate in a postdoctoral seminar called dped, which is short for digital pedagogy. Rebecca’s request looked like a great opportunity for me […]
Resource: Taking Notes at #THATCamp
Taking Notes at #THATCamp This past weekend was THATCamp Prime 2012 at the George Mason’s Center for History and New Media, and thanks to a few cancellations, I got the chance to join in the fun and rub elbows with 100+ DHers. Like many other attendees, I drove home with a browser full of links and a host […]
Jobs: The Open Knowledge Foundation is recruiting!
The OKF is recruiting! | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog. The following roles are open – Community Coordinator Labs Developer Front End Web Developer Data Visualization Developer Data Wrangler Web and Systems Administrator Foundation Administrator Data Wrangler and Data Vis positions here – applications are still open so do get in touch! Here’s some more info on the other positions that […]
Job: Digital Library Developer at George Mason University Libraries
Duties include: Anticipating and investigating trends in digital library technology so we can respond quickly to new opportunities; and, providing primary support for new initiatives in resource discovery, digital preservation, knowledge management and scholarly communication. This position reports to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Programs and Systems.
CFParticipation: Hacking the Marriage of Teaching and Technology: a #digped Discussion
This Friday, June 22 from 1:00 – 2:00pm EST (10:00 – 11:00am PST), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion group under the hashtag #digped on the relationship between pedagogy and technology. Functionality is increasingly important in an educational world that includes hybrid classes, MOOCs, and more; but is functionality pedagogy? Is pedagogy driving functionality, or is it the […]
CFParticipation: Shakespeare Quarterly Open Review
Welcome to the open peer review of Shakespeare Quarterly’s new experimental feature, “After SAA.” Papers grouped under “Shakespeare and Philosophy,” “Shakespeare and Language,” and “Shakespeare and Skepticism” were first presented at the 2012 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. They appear here because they offer particular opportunities for further discussion within, and across, the boundaries […]
Report: Ten takeaways from this week’s conference on civic media (video)
Over three days, the innovators and thought leaders at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference talked about data and drones, opengov and algorithms, and even ventured into the possibilities robots might have for the future of news.
Opportunity: Two PhD positions in Digital Humanities – University of Amsterdam
To strengthen the research field of Digital Humanities, the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for Two fully funded PhD candidates in Digital Humanities, starting on 1st September 2012 Application deadline: 4 July 2012