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RECOMMENDED: Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities

Sep

17

2013

Stephen Ramsay, Alan Liu, Alex Reid and others have recently engaged in a fruitful conversation about the role of cultural criticism in the digital humanities. Ramsay begins the exchange with a post revisiting Liu’s 2011 article in Debates in the Digital Humanities, “Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” Quoting Liu, “How the digital ...

CFProposals: Museums and the Web 2014

Sep

17

2013

The Museums and the Web 2014 conference, to be held April 2-5, 2014 in Baltimore, is accepting proposals for conference sessions. Proposals may fit one of several types, including pre-conference workshops, formal papers, how-to sessions, lightning talks, and Best of the Web, to name a few. The conference showcases “advanced research and exemplary applications of ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarships

Sep

17

2013

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute will be accepting applications for scholarships for the Summer 2014 Institute. The scholarships cover tuition costs with the exception of a small, non-refundable administration fee (students $150, non-students $300). Details for submitting applications will be announced via the DHSI e-mail list and DHInstitute on Twitter. Applications are considered on a ...

PROJECT: Suppose There’s Some Connection: Visualizing Character Interactions in Ulysses for Bloomsday 2013

Sep

17

2013

Amanda Visconti, Rhonda Armstrong, Regina Higgins, Steven Hoelscher, and Pamela Andrews have used Gephi to create visualizations of the network of character relationships in Ulysses. Each person examined 10 pages of the text for seven types of character interactions, such as “character thinking of another character” or “character observing another character.” Visconti also provides a ...

RESOURCE: Geospatial Historian

Sep

17

2013

The Geospatial Historian, modeled after the Programming Historian, is a “tutorial-based open access textbook for historians and digital humanists that aim to teach digital mapping and GIS skills.” Current lessons include Google Maps and Google Earth, Installing QGIS and Adding Layers, Creating New Vector Layers, and Georeferencing. The site editors are looking for additional contributions ...

RESOURCE: DHThis

Sep

17

2013

In response to questions of transparency with the Journal of Digital Humanities, Adeline Koh, Martin Eve, Roopika Risam, Jesse Stommel, and Alex Gil have launched DHThis. Koh states in her post introducing the platform, DHThis is a news aggregator which “publishes” what the community votes to be the best or most relevant work. It is ...

JOB: Digital Social Science and Humanities Specialist, Michigan State University

Sep

17

2013

From the job description: The Department of History at Michigan State University is seeking a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). The successful candidate will have knowledge of digital research methods and tools; experience developing collaborative research projects; ...

JOB: Digital Resources Librarian, University of Mary Washington

Sep

17

2013

From the position announcement: The Digital Resources Librarian works collaboratively with the Special Collections Librarian and other personnel to create, maintain, and promote UMW Libraries’ digital collections, including creating policies and usage guidelines, planning and implementing workflows, and overseeing quality control. Under the supervision of the Special Collections Librarian, this position will develop strategies for ...

JOB: Principal Metadata Analyst, California Digital Library

Aug

20

2013

From the position description: The Metadata Analyst reports to the Director, Discovery and Delivery Services Group and will work primarily on the HathiTrust Metadata Management and related systems to provide analysis, reporting, planning and coordination. HathiTrust is a collaborative digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries bringing together the immense collections of partner institutions. ...

CFProposals: Practices in the Digital Humanities

Aug

20

2013

The digitalculturebooks imprint of the University of Michigan Press is launching a new series, Practices in the Digital Humanities. The editors have identified some topics for books, but are inviting book proposals from the community. The series is focused on the practices of the digital humanities by providing best practices, models, case studies, and examples of ...

RESOURCE: The Getty Launches the Open Content Program

Aug

20

2013

The Getty has released 4,600 high-resolution images, with embedded metadata in RDF format, and made them “free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose.” The Getty plans to continue making content available through its Open Content Program, which follows the in the footsteps of other museums, such as The Walters Art Museum, of participating in open culture ...