In the first week of June, my supervisor Andreas Fickers and I went to the US to visit several Digital Humanities centres, specifically ones working on Digital History, in Boston (MA), Lincoln (NE), and Fairfax (VA). Since the University of Luxembourg will get its own DH centre soon, we went with the goal of learning…
From the report: We are posting here a high-level summary of the outcome of a series of conversations regarding the CFI Cyberinfrastructure Initiative among Canadian Digital Humanists. The conversations emerged from CSDH/SCHN consultations that began in the Spring of 2014. The document tries to reflect the priorities and areas of emphasis that have emerged from these…
PressForward is now accepting applications for partners to develop pilot publications using the PressForward plugin and methods. Pilot partners receive a grant to help cover startup costs and extensive PressForward support to develop (or relaunch) their own PressForward publications. PressForward publications use innovative methods to aggregate scholarship, research, white papers and informal conversations published on the open…
From the announcement: The workshops will be taught by experienced XML instructors and developers Matthew Gibson, director of digital initiatives at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Christine Ruotolo, digital services manager for humanities and social sciences at the University of Virginia Library. Source: Workshops on XML and Library…
Ernesto Miranda has published a digital edition of the Codex Mendoza, an important source about pre-Hispanic culture in Mexico. Find it here. Source: Digital Codex Mendoza online
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday that it is launching a new “laboratory for social machines” to look at the impact that social media of all kinds has on society, and said the new lab will be funded by a $10-million donation from Twitter over the next five years. The new research group…
A series tutorials on quantitative text analysis with Python are now available on the DARIAH-DE website. The tutorials were written by Allen Riddell with help from Christof Schöch. The tutorials assume familiarity with the Python programming language. If you’re new to Python and would like to learn the basics, head straight over to the excellent (and recently expanded)…
The Text Encoding Initiative Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS) invites beta testers. See invitation for beta testers here.
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology invites contributions for a special issue on the conditions of women and gender studies within digital spaces and cultures around the world. Read full call for papers here.
Of the many projects that are part of the PressForward Initiative, Digital Humanities Now holds the distinguished role of being our flagship publication. With a large and ever-growing readership, DHNow serves the digital humanities community by highlighting significant pieces of scholarship, drawing attention to projects and resources, and sharing information about job and presentation opportunities. To…