Race and the Digital Humanities will explore how race and ethnicity are important structural categories of analysis in the digital humanities. How do race and ethnicity factor into questions of access within the digital humanities? How are digital humanities tools calibrated to take into account the effects of race and ethnicity? How is race configured in different […]
A short video from Europeana on what linked open data is and why it is a good thing both for users and content providers.
The kit is aimed at libraries, archives and other cultural intuitions staff and gives basic guidance on how to organize an event. It includes some tips for organizing an event, as well as free handouts, videos and web resources that staff can use. Also provided is a list of additional resources, including some format-specific advice.
This is a key role in the Department of New Media, which is undertaking an exciting and extensive programme of work including the implementation of a museum-wide digital strategy, the progression of the new IWM website and leading on the creation and delivery of multimedia in the galleries together with online, mobile and other strategic […]
Yesterday I live-tweeted the Digital Publishing Forum “Measuring the Reader” at University College London. I storified my tweets and added a brief introduction. I really enjoyed it. The next one is on 21 March and will be “concerned with the huge changes in reference publishing over the last decade and how it has gone digital in a spectacular way, […]
The service is ultra simple in purpose and function. It provides: Information on licenses for open data, open content, and open-source software in machine readable form (JSON) A simple web API that allows you retrieve this information over the web — including using javascript in a browser via JSONP
The Florida State University Libraries seeks a Digital Archivist to develop, implement, and provide leadership for digital initiatives involving Special Collections materials and services. The Digital Archivist will be creative, dynamic, and articulate and be skilled in digitization, metadata, project and website management, and digital preservation. The Digital Archivist will report to the Associate Dean […]
The inaugural Digital Humanities Australasia conference is shaping-up to be a very exciting event. There are a range of excellent international speakers and all the workshops preceding the conference are now confirmed. The registration for the conference is now open. Please register for DHA2012 here: http://aa-dh.org/conference-2/
The interim report summarizes “our interviews with research support professionals who support the field of history.”
The second annual Theorizing the Web conference seeks to assemble a multi-disciplinary group of scholars interested in exploring how the Web both influences and is influenced by the social. Technology has always been social and society has always been technological. This fact has become increasingly difficult to ignore following the recent explosion of collaborative and […]
