The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct…
This symposium is for scholars and postgraduate students involved in the editing of early literary and non-literary texts. ‘Early’ is being interpreted quite broadly, c. 1500-1800, and speakers so far have editing interests in Shakespeare and early modern drama, early modern poetry and prose, eighteenth-century fiction, early modern women’s writing and early modern historical texts….
The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its second annual conference, to be held at the University of Tokyo, Japan, 15-17 September, 2012. The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities internationally, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with the ways…
The School of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Nevada State College invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor in Visual and Digital Media to begin August 2012. The preferred candidate must be able to teach courses in media studies, visual media production, and new media production, focusing on topics in media studies, visual arts…
Over last few years, Information visualization has become of the key contemporary communication medium and also research techniques. But unless you went to design school, how can you create good looking designs such as the ones on www.visualizing.org or infosthetics.com ? (Note that I am not talking about visualization part itself – how to effectively…
Humanities and the social sciences have traditionally been disciplines aligned closely with the institutional library and its resources and services. Increasingly, in my conversations with librarians, there is a concern that while the library as a space remains popular, this masks a growing distance between the services the library provides and the needs and expectations…
A Web application called Google Ancient Places (GAP) allows users to choose a classical text or book from the time period 500BC – 500AD and then search for references to ancient places within it, presenting the results in a user-friendly interface. GAP uses specialized software to identify where and how often places are mentioned within…
Under supervision of the Head of the Digital Initiatives Group (DIG), the Digital Humanities Developer is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining a variety of digital library projects and products for the humanities and social sciences. She or he will work closely with the entire DIG team (which includes librarians and specialists in assessment, digital…
We’re happy to say that we now have videos from the annual Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting, held September 27, 2011 at the Old Post Office in Washington, DC. This meeting brought together top researchers in the digital humanities from across the United States. In these videos below, watch the directors of NEH’s Digital Humanities…
The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in public humanities for the academic year 2012-2013. While the nature of an applicant’s specific interests and areas of expertise is left open, these should be complementary to the present makeup of the Center. Areas of interest: documentary studies,…