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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>News – Digital Humanities Now</title> <link>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org</link> <description>Community-Curated Content Published by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:19:57 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <image> <url>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cropped-dhnow-twitter-32x32.jpg</url> <title>News – Digital Humanities Now</title> <link>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/DHNowNews" /><feedburner:info uri="dhnownews" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item> <title>Resource: The Importance of Design Plans for Data Science</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/JK_oS__oCOg/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Stephenson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:00:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dlab.berkeley.edu/blog/importance-design-plans-data-science</guid> <description><![CDATA[Since becoming a Data Fellow at the D-Lab, I have had the opportunity to assist many talented social scientists through the D-Lab’s Consulting service. A regular consulting request is to help with the research design for a new project. These requests are understandable. For empirical researchers, a high-quality research design makes or breaks a research...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/the-importance-of-design-plans-for-data-science/" title="ReadResource: The Importance of Design Plans for Data Science">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Since becoming a Data Fellow at the D-Lab, I have had the opportunity to assist many talented social scientists through the D-Lab’s Consulting service. A regular consulting request is to help with the research design for a new project. These requests are understandable. For empirical researchers, a high-quality research design makes or breaks a research project. <a href="https://dlab.berkeley.edu/blog/importance-design-plans-data-science" class="broken_link">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/JK_oS__oCOg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/the-importance-of-design-plans-for-data-science/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>Report: A Novel Approach To Novels That Shaped Our World!</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/UwrEBzDdYwk/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Author on Post]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Collaborations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Digital Scholarship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[events]]></category> <category><![CDATA[experiments]]></category> <category><![CDATA[games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[literature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Printed books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2021/04/a-novel-approach-to-novels-that-shaped-our-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+digital-scholarship+%28Digital+Scholarship%29</guid> <description><![CDATA[It is wonderful to be collaborating with Leeds Libraries on their online Games Jam this month, which is encouraging people to create playful interactive adaptations of books in the BBC’s Novels that Shaped Our World list. In my experience game jams are a brilliant way of bringing historic and literary digital library and archive collections...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/a-novel-approach-to-novels-that-shaped-our-world-2/" title="ReadReport: A Novel Approach To Novels That Shaped Our World!">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[It is wonderful to be collaborating with Leeds Libraries on their online Games Jam this month, which is encouraging people to create playful interactive adaptations of books in the BBC’s Novels that Shaped Our World list. In my experience game jams are a brilliant way of bringing historic and literary digital library and archive collections to life in a completely new way. I’ve ran a few at the British Library and I’m always keen to share what I’ve learned with other libraries, including contributing to Living Knowledge Network skills sharing events. <a href="https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2021/04/a-novel-approach-to-novels-that-shaped-our-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+digital-scholarship+%28Digital+Scholarship%29">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/UwrEBzDdYwk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/a-novel-approach-to-novels-that-shaped-our-world-2/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>Announcement: Portraits in DH: Dr. Sylvia Fernández</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/wg2sSTa5l_I/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna E. Kijas]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://ach.org/blog/2021/04/25/portraits-in-dh-dr-sylvia-fernandez/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sylvia A. Fernández, Ph.D is currently a Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. She is a co-founder of Borderlands Archives Cartography, a member of Torn Apart / Separados, and team member and coordinator of the ongoing initiative of United Fronteras, as well as other collaborative...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/portraits-in-dh-dr-sylvia-fernandez-2/" title="ReadAnnouncement: Portraits in DH: Dr. Sylvia Fernández">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Sylvia A. Fernández, Ph.D is currently a Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. She is a co-founder of Borderlands Archives Cartography, a member of Torn Apart / Separados, and team member and coordinator of the ongoing initiative of United Fronteras, as well as other collaborative projects. Fernández is working on a monograph and building a public and digital humanities project based on her dissertation titled, “Genealogía Transfronteriza: (Re)interpretaciones literarias de identidades femeninas en Cd. Juárez-El Paso”. <a href="https://ach.org/blog/2021/04/25/portraits-in-dh-dr-sylvia-fernandez/">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/wg2sSTa5l_I" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/portraits-in-dh-dr-sylvia-fernandez-2/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>Resource: Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/BvqBfYKQnUU/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cornelis van Lit]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:00:39 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DH in Practice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamic Languages]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Visualization]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://digitalorientalist.com/2021/04/17/your-first-computed-visualization-or-how-to-use-python-to-understand-the-reception-of-bukhari-and-muslim-hadith-collections/</guid> <description><![CDATA[There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a visualization. There is simply too much to process or the envisioned result is too complex to do by hand. Then what? It’s time to learn a few more tricks. This is best done on something...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/your-first-computed-visualization-or-how-to-use-python-to-understand-the-reception-of-bukhari-and-muslim-hadith-collections/" title="ReadResource: Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a visualization. There is simply too much to process or the envisioned result is too complex to do by hand. Then what? It’s time to learn a few more tricks. This is best done on something that is only slightly more complex than what you previously were used to do. <a href="https://digitalorientalist.com/2021/04/17/your-first-computed-visualization-or-how-to-use-python-to-understand-the-reception-of-bukhari-and-muslim-hadith-collections/">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/BvqBfYKQnUU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/your-first-computed-visualization-or-how-to-use-python-to-understand-the-reception-of-bukhari-and-muslim-hadith-collections/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>Announcement: CNI Spring ’21 Meeting Videos and Slides Now Available</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/ZTqVE4fyPo4/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diane Goldenberg-Hart]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CNI News]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.cni.org/news/cni-spring-21-meeting-videos-slides-now-available</guid> <description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that all meeting materials are now available from the event website. Slide decks & videos have been added to individual project briefing and plenary pages; videos are also publicly available on CNI’s YouTube and Vimeo channels. Please feel free to share these resources widely! Read full post here.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that all meeting materials are now available from the event website. Slide decks & videos have been added to individual project briefing and plenary pages; videos are also publicly available on CNI’s YouTube and Vimeo channels. Please feel free to share these resources widely! <a href="https://www.cni.org/news/cni-spring-21-meeting-videos-slides-now-available">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/ZTqVE4fyPo4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/cni-spring-21-meeting-videos-slides-now-available/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>Resource: Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/pyw-zufiB1Y/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[James Harry Morris]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japanese Studies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[OCR]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Online Resources]]></category> <category><![CDATA[workflow]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://digitalorientalist.com/2021/04/09/google-docs-and-ocr-some-experiments-transcribing-japanese-language-texts/</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the past year or so I have been seeing and hearing an increasing amount about the capabilities of Google Docs to transcribe scans in PDF format into editable documents. In the Digital Orientalist, Editor for Syriac Studies, Ephrem Ishac, has explained how to perform OCR on Syriac texts using Google Docs and Editor for...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/google-docs-and-ocr-some-experiments-transcribing-japanese-language-texts/" title="ReadResource: Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[In the past year or so I have been seeing and hearing an increasing amount about the capabilities of Google Docs to transcribe scans in PDF format into editable documents. In the Digital Orientalist, Editor for Syriac Studies, Ephrem Ishac, has explained how to perform OCR on Syriac texts using Google Docs and Editor for Islamic Studies, Alex Mallett, has recently explained the process using Arabic texts. <a href="https://digitalorientalist.com/2021/04/09/google-docs-and-ocr-some-experiments-transcribing-japanese-language-texts/">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/pyw-zufiB1Y" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/google-docs-and-ocr-some-experiments-transcribing-japanese-language-texts/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>Job: Assistant or Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Pikeville</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/FT_l8g9nXVw/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Author on Source]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:00:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Job Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[education jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[faculty positions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[higher education jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jobs in education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jobs in higher education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[university jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[via bookmarklet]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=177452177&Title=Assistant%20or%20Associate%20Professor%20of%20Digital%20Humanities</guid> <description><![CDATA[The University of Pikeville seeks an Assistant or Associate professor in Digital Humanities to collaborate with existing Humanities programs to forge a new interdisciplinary program in digital arts, rhetoric, media studies, and medical humanities. Applicants must either be ABD or hold a PhD or MFA in a Humanities or related Digital Humanities discipline at the...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/assistant-or-associate-professor-of-digital-humanities-higheredjobs/" title="ReadJob: Assistant or Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Pikeville">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[The University of Pikeville seeks an Assistant or Associate professor in Digital Humanities to collaborate with existing Humanities programs to forge a new interdisciplinary program in digital arts, rhetoric, media studies, and medical humanities. Applicants must either be ABD or hold a PhD or MFA in a Humanities or related Digital Humanities discipline at the time of appointment. <a href="https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=177452177&Title=Assistant%20or%20Associate%20Professor%20of%20Digital%20Humanities">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/FT_l8g9nXVw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/assistant-or-associate-professor-of-digital-humanities-higheredjobs/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>CFPapers: Pandemic Methodologies Twitter Conference 2021</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/jryzbZ0bLUk/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Author on Source]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[CFPs & Conferences]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CFP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CHA-SHC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History on the Internet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter conference]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://activehistory.ca/2021/04/cfp-pandemic-methodologies-twitter-conference-2021/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Activehistoryca+%28ActiveHistory.ca%29</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the past year, archives and libraries have closed (either permanently or periodically), non-essential international travel has been heavily discouraged or impossible, and anyone who can has been encouraged to work from home. In these circumstances, historians have had to adapt how they do research, perhaps relying more heavily on digital methods or developing more...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/cfp-pandemic-methodologies-twitter-conference-2021/" title="ReadCFPapers: Pandemic Methodologies Twitter Conference 2021">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[In the past year, archives and libraries have closed (either permanently or periodically), non-essential international travel has been heavily discouraged or impossible, and anyone who can has been encouraged to work from home. In these circumstances, historians have had to adapt how they do research, perhaps relying more heavily on digital methods or developing more collaborative projects. <a href="http://activehistory.ca/2021/04/cfp-pandemic-methodologies-twitter-conference-2021/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Activehistoryca+%28ActiveHistory.ca%29">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/jryzbZ0bLUk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/cfp-pandemic-methodologies-twitter-conference-2021/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>Announcement: Planning the ACH22 In-person Conference</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/zpa9v6iv8QE/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Author on Source]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[via bookmarklet]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://ach2021.ach.org/2021/03/31/planning-the-ach22-in-person-conference/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the ways in which we work, collaborate and conduct research. While ACH had previously planned for the in-person conference to occur in Houston in 2021, the pandemic presented the organization with an opportunity to host its first virtual event, ACH21. The University of Houston (UH) and the diverse, inclusive communities...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/announcement-planning-the-ach22-in-person-conference/" title="ReadAnnouncement: Planning the ACH22 In-person Conference">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the ways in which we work, collaborate and conduct research. While ACH had previously planned for the in-person conference to occur in Houston in 2021, the pandemic presented the organization with an opportunity to host its first virtual event, ACH21. The University of Houston (UH) and the diverse, inclusive communities of southeast Texas are pleased to host the ACH22 conference on the UH Campus. <a href="https://ach2021.ach.org/2021/03/31/planning-the-ach22-in-person-conference/">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/zpa9v6iv8QE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/announcement-planning-the-ach22-in-person-conference/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item> <title>Announcement: Digital Humanities 2021</title> <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DHNowNews/~3/Pg04nk7J9hE/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Author on Source]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:00:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[via bookmarklet]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dh2021.adho.org/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Day of DH 2021 will take place on April 29. The organizing committee this year is led by Loyola University Chicago and UCLA in USA, University of Guelph in Canada, and Università del Piedmont Orientale in Italy. Our theme this year is multilingual DH, and Digital Humanists from all corners of the world are encouraged...<a class="excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary" href="https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/announcement-digital-humanities-2021/" title="ReadAnnouncement: Digital Humanities 2021">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Day of DH 2021 will take place on April 29. The organizing committee this year is led by Loyola University Chicago and UCLA in USA, University of Guelph in Canada, and Università del Piedmont Orientale in Italy. Our theme this year is multilingual DH, and Digital Humanists from all corners of the world are encouraged to share their work not just on Twitter (as always!) but also Instagram, with the hashtag #dayofdh2021. <a href="https://dh2021.adho.org/day-of-dh/">Read full post here.</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DHNowNews/~4/Pg04nk7J9hE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>]]></content:encoded> <feedburner:origLink>https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2021/04/announcement-digital-humanities-2021/</feedburner:origLink></item> </channel> </rss>