Translating Digital Humanities Skills From College to Career
Sarah Ketchley and Lindsey Gervais discuss the value offered by programs in the digital humanities.
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Adding a Digital Humanities Bit to the OA Book Funding Landscape
Adding a Digital Humanities Bit to the OA Book Funding Landscape
Dariah is launching an annual OA monograph bursary for early career researchers in digital humanities.
Corona As Curator: How Museums Are Responding to the Pandemic
Corona As Curator: How Museums Are Responding to the Pandemic
The current COVID-19 crisis has prompted hand-wringing and self-reflection among some museum professionals. What, they are asking, is the point of a museum that remains closed to the public?
Digital Humanities + Libraries: Revolution or Evolution?
The US focus of digital humanities in libraries seems to be shifting toward skills, tools and methods and away from collections and projects.
Why an Age of Machine Learning Needs the Humanities
Why an Age of Machine Learning Needs the Humanities
If democracy depends on informed citizens, democracy is in trouble. This is a moment of crisis for many institutions, including higher education, especially in disciplines such as English, philosophy, and history, which promise to prepare students as citizens. To prepare students for a world where information is filtered by computers, we will need a stronger alliance between the humanities and math. This alliance has two reciprocal parts: cultural criticism of the mathematical models shaping our world, and mathematical inquiry about culture.
Digital Humanities for Social Good
Rapidly produced and highly topical digital humanities projects are challenging perceptions of the field.
Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
A digital scholarship librarian and a historian assembled a team of professors, graduate students, researchers, and fellows to create "Torn Apart / Separados", an interactive web site that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed.
The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures
Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen commands a cultural empire with her six novels at the center. It raises the question: Why her, as opposed to someone else?
Great Literature Is Surprisingly Arithmetic
A good book evokes a variety of emotions as you read. Turns out, though, that almost all novels and plays provide one of only six “emotional experiences” from beginning to end—a rags-to-riches exuberance, say, or a rise and fall of hope.
Digital Scholarship and the future of cross-disciplinary work in research
Digital Scholarship and the future of cross-disciplinary work in research
A figshare case study of Micah Vandegrift's Digital Humanities research.
New Stanford center for scientific cartography
The new David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last week at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, showcases what was once one of the world’s great private map collections—more than 150,000 maps, globes, and cartographic artifacts.
Disruptive innovation requires humanities' input
Disruptive innovation has to be accompanied by social and cultural progress.
Why GitHub is important for book publishing
The history of the 21st century will be the story of non-hierarchical systems of human organization enabled by the Internet.
The morbid fascination with the death of the humanities
Why professors, librarians, and politicians are shunning liberal arts in the name of STEM.
Twitter Offers Entire Data Pool, but Some Wary of Diving In
With the announcement of its new Data Grants program, Twitter is inviting academic researchers to propose experiments that take advantage of the full "firehose" of its 500 million daily tweets. But some researchers worry that the terms of the deal give Twitter ownership of their ideas.
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