I have a new book out. It’s called “Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data.” The goal of the book is to change the terms of debate surrounding the place of computational literary analysis within the field literary studies. Most of these debates have and continue to centre […]
The Ancient World Mapping Center, in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, seeks Expressions of Interest from freelance and contract web developers interested in a small project to update components of an online viewer for the so-called “Peutinger Map” of the Roman World. Read full post here.
Here at Hack Library School, we pride ourselves on providing engaging, thoughtful, and useful resources for Library and Information Science students. Because we’re a blog by and for students, eventually we have to move on to bigger and better things (like graduation and full-time professional gigs). The good news for all of you is that […]
From the announcement: To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension […]
About the resource: The DH Course Registry Metadatathon was a part of the DARIAH Annual Event 2018 held in Paris, France on Thursday, May 24, 2018. Participants in the Metadatathon learned about the benefits, functionalities and QA procedures of the Course Registry…The workshop was targeted towards researchers and lecturers who teach courses in DH or related fields, as well as towards […]
From the CFParticipation: Gothic scripts from the Middle Ages can be found in archives and libraries all over Europe. The script was widely used for hundreds of years, and not only in expensive decorated books. First experiments with documents from Switzerland and Germany have demonstrated that Gothic script can be recognised by Automated Text Recognition […]
About the resource: The Digital Humanities Course Registry is an open online inventory of DH modules, courses and programmes in Europe which aims to help students, researchers, lecturers and institutions (from DARIAH and beyond) to find, promote and connect to teaching and training activities related to Digital Humanities. Read more here.
From the post: We think Zotero is the best tool for almost anyone doing serious research, but we know that a lot of people — including many students — don’t need all of Zotero’s power just to create the occasional bibliography. Today, we’re introducing ZoteroBib, a free service to help people quickly create perfect bibliographies. Powered by […]
From the post: The upcoming Digital History Workshop will take place on 22 March between 3-5pm in the eLab room (Turfdraagsterpad 9 BG 1 0.16). In this workshop, we discuss tools that enable researchers to build their own corpus from various online resources…In this workshop, Dr. Martin Reynaert (Tilburg University, Meertens Institute) will demonstrate how […]
From the call: ‘CMC-corpora 2018’ is the 6th edition of an annual conference series dedicated to the collection, annotation, processing and exploitation of corpora of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media for research in the humanities. The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media and social sciences with research […]
