From the report: On Thursday, April 2nd 2020, at a time of extreme uncertainty and in the midst of social distancing, lockdowns and isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Digital Curation Unit / ATHENA R.C. designed and carried out the first Greek-run international Digital Humanities conference which took place entirely on Twitter. The event, […]
About the report: Nora wrote a piece the other day about Learning in Lockdown, suggesting a number of places you can find online resources to learn from while working from home. She also mentioned that we were running our own experiments on this, having been forced by circumstance to pivot our current Library Carpentry course […]
About the report: The “Research Software Engineering for Digital Humanities” workshop, held at King’s Digital Lab (KDL) in December 2019, is now available as a ‘captured event’ on DARIAH-Campus. The four-day event, which ran as part of the MaDiH (Mapping Digital Heritage in Jordan) project, focused on best practices in research software engineering adopted by […]
From the report: It is these interests and concerns that underpin “Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship“, a collaboration between the Sussex Humanities Lab, the British Library, and Yale University Library. This 12-month project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council aims to open up new and important directions […]
From the report: As we go through the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, we are inundated by articles, images, video, statistics, and graphs through our handhelds and desktops coming from a variety of channels–including social media, news outlets, journals, and preprints. The sources of information expand from governmental agencies to research institutions, from policy makers to advocacy […]
About the report: Our handbook, Collective Equity: A Handbook for Designing and Evaluating Grant-Funded Positions (PDF) was produced as the second outcome of the Labor Forum. Building from our white paper and conversations at the second forum, the initial two documents in the handbook are concrete recommendations for changed practice. The handbook and individual PDF […]
From the report: Why should students learn computer science? For creativity? Jobs? Justice? Innovation? The answers to this question shape what computer science education (CSed) looks like in practice. A new CSforALL publication explores how the rationales, values, and intended impacts people have for CSEd are linked to their choices for design and implementation of learning experiences. […]
From the report: In 2016, “The Impact of the Digital in Japanese Studies” workshop met at the University of Chicago for the first time. This gathering brought together Japan Studies researchers with different projects and needs who engaged (or were looking to engage) with digital methods. We discussed a wide variety of undertakings: creating pattern […]
From the report: In this post, we will look back on the 20 years of R with a bit of history and 3 interesting perspectives – how much faster did R get over the years, how many R packages were being released since 2000 and how did the number of package downloads grow. Read the […]
From the report: I was excitedly awaiting my first ELI Annual Meeting on Sunday afternoon when I received the disappointing news that it was called off. Due to growing concerns over COVID-19, the conference organizers made the difficult decision tocancel the meeting. Although an appropriate decision, many presenters, like me, were left with many hours […]
