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From the announcement: The Mapping Early American Elections team is pleased to launch the project website. During this three-year project, funded by the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities, we plan to blog about our process and progress. Our project is building on the New Nation Votes (NNV) collection […]
From the CFP: The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media invites submissions for the first annual Current Research in Digital History conference. Submissions should offer historical arguments and interpretations rather than showcase digital projects. We anticipate that the format of short presentations will provide an opportunity to make arguments on the basis of […]
When it started almost 15 years ago, it also seemed impossibly ambitious: An upstart tech company that had just tamed and organized the vast informational jungle of the web would now extend the reach of its search box into the offline world. By scanning millions of printed books from the libraries with which it partnered, […]
From the announcemnt: For the second year in a row, Cornell University Press has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant worth nearly $100,000 to fund the open access initiative, Cornell Open. “This is exciting news for the press and for the university,” said Laura Spitz, Cornell’s vice provost for […]
Recent budget proposals by the Trump administration have allocated zero funding to a number of independent federal agencies concerned with education, democracy, cultural preservation, and public-facing scholarship. Among them are the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports NPR and […]
Ball State University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Strategist From the ad: More than one year of experience with digital scholarship/humanities project management and utilization of digital tools in a research environment. Knowledge of research methods and technical applications in a digital publishing or repository environment. Strong technical, problem-solving and communication skills required. Working knowledge […]
When I was asked to come speak at Keene it was due, in part, to a presentation I gave last summer at Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute at Mary Washington. My presentation was titled Making & Breaking: Rethinking the Web in Higher Education, and the purpose of that talk was to disentangle a bit of the history of the […]
From the CFP: We would like to invite you to participate in the international workshop on” Data Sharing, Holocaust Documentation and the Digital Humanities. Best Practices, Case Studies, Benefits”, to be held in Venice on 29-30 June 2017. Launched in November 2010, the main goal of EHRI is the implementation of a research infrastructure, which enables collaborative […]
From the CFP: I am an adjunct in the Public History program at the University of New Hampshire, Manchester, and I am conducting a research study to identify obstacles to digital humanities professional development for adjuncts. I am writing to invite you to participate in this study. Take the survey here.
From the post: The DLF community works to advance research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies. Our annual Forum (#DLFforum) brings digital library, archives, and museum practitioners together to set ambitious agendas, share new methods and experiments, develop best practices, and better organize […]
