Report: 21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action
Audio from the ARL-CNI Fall Forum
Category: News
Job: Text Encoding Positions
Text Encoding Positions | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH: http://mith.umd.edu/) is hiring for two part-time (10 hours per week) positions as Text Encoders to join the Shelley-Godwin Archive project.
Conference: digital humanities deutschland
digital humanities deutschland | Digital Humanities 2012.
In order to facilitate future strategic development of DH as a leading future research paradigm, we invite all academic Digital Humanities researchers in the German speaking region to come together, exchange ideas and information and establish a joint professional organization called “Digital Humanities Deutschland” (hereafter: DHD). The DHD is intended as a chapter organization within the European ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing).
Resource: large-scale data exploration, MIC-style
Real-world data are messy. Relationships between two variables can take on an infinite number of forms, and while one doesn’t see, say, umbrella-shaped data very often, strange things can happen. When scientists talk about correlations or associations between variables, they’re usually referring to one very specific form of relationship–namely, a linear one. The assumption is that most associations between pairs of variables are reasonably well captured by positing that one variable increases in proportion to the other, with some added noise. In reality, of course, many associations aren’t linear, or even approximately so. For instance, many associations are cyclical (e.g., hours at work versus day of week), or curvilinear (e.g., heart attacks become precipitously more frequent past middle age), and so on.
Detecting a non-linear association is potentially just
Funding Opportunity: Digital History Research Awards for New PhD Students at Mason
George Mason University and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media are pleased to announce Digital History Research Awards for students entering the History and Art History doctoral program in fall 2012.
Omaha Language Dictionary data
Linguists and others interested in more in-depth information about the Omaha language may view the working database behind the Omaha Ponca Digital Dictionary. This database is a work in progress.
Resource: How to use WordSeer to collect and compare words, e.g. “love” in Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies
In this post, I demonstrate the collection and comparison features of WordSeer by using it to compare the usage of the word “love” in Shakespeares comedies and tragedies. You can watch the screencast, or simply read on.
Resource: FAST Released as Linked Data from OCLC Research
FAST, an enumerative, faceted subject heading schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), is now available as an experimental Linked Data service and is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
CFP: Free Online Viewshare Workshop, January 23, 2012
Join the NDIIPP team for a free online workshop on using Viewshare to create interfaces to digital collections. See how you can use Viewshare to learn more about your collections and create and share dynamic interfaces to your collections.
Job: Asst. Curator of Digital Collections, Hagley Museum and Library
Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE, seeks a full-time assistant digital curator for its digital archives. Hagley is an independent research library devoted to documenting the history of American business, technology, and design. Since 2008, we have been aggressively building our digital collection and exhibits.