Announcement: CUNY Team Launches Open Digital Platform for Learning and Collaboration
From the announcement: The Commons In A Box team, based at The Graduate Center, CUNY (GC), has partnered with the OpenLab at New York City College of Technology, CUNY (City Tech) to create Commons In A Box OpenLab (CBOX OpenLab), a free software platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration. Today's public release of CBOX OpenLab is the culmination of a two-year project, Learning in…
Announcement: Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto
From the announcement: On October 15, 2018, Digital Pedagogy Lab opened registration for a new event in 2019: Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto. The Lab in Toronto will take place March 18-20, and will feature six courses, brand new workshops, great food, and a uniquely intimate environment that will feature smaller cohorts, cozier spaces, and close…
Announcement: Zotero Comes to Google Docs
From the announcement: We're excited to announce the availability of Zotero integration with Google Docs, joining Zotero's existing support for Microsoft Word and LibreOffice. The same powerful functionality that Zotero has long offered for traditional word processors is now available for Google Docs. You can quickly search for items in your Zotero library, add page…
Announcement: Documenting the Now Phase 2
From the announcement: With a $1.2 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, Shift Design, and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) will collaborate to lead the ongoing work…
Announcement: Re-Imaginary History, Release 1.0
From the announcement: We're pleased to announce the next step in our ongoing project to remix the "Imagining History" project that launched at Queen's University, Belfast in 2003. You can read our previous posts on this topic here: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/RemixBrut/tag/reimagine-history/ Today, we are posting here a clean spreadsheet with links to all the functional manuscript descriptions…
Announcement: Wikipedia Leads Effort to Create a Digital Archive of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in the Brazilian Museum Fire
From the announcement: The staggering loss of a possible 20 million artifacts in the fire that consumed Brazil's Museu Nacional in Rio boggles the mind—dinosaur fossils, the oldest human remains found in the country, and, as Emily Dreyfuss reports at Wired, "audio recordings and documents of indigenous languages. Many of those languages, already extinct, may…
Announcement: ReSounding the Archives has launched!
From the announcement: This interdisciplinary project bridges digital humanities, history, and music by bringing historic sheet music back to life through digitization of sheet music, performance of each piece, and student research about each piece. The website makes all of these resources freely available for use by students, teachers, researchers, and public audiences under a…
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Announcement: Inaugural Issue of Current Research in Digital History
From the announcement: Current Research in Digital History is an annual open-access, peer-reviewed publication of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations. By featuring short essays, it also seeks to provide an opportunity to…
Announcement: More Web Archives, Less Process
From the announcement: The Library of Congress Digital Content Management Section is excited to announce the release of 4,240 new web archives across 43 event and thematic collections on loc.gov, our largest single release of web archives to date! Web archives such as Slate Magazine from 2002 to present, Elizabeth Mesa's Iraq War blog, and…
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Announcement: Announcing New ODH Awards (August 2018)
From the announcement: The Office of Digital Humanities is pleased to announce 18 awards through our Digital Humanities Advancement Grants and our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities programs. These projects are part of a larger slate of 218 awards just announced by the NEH. Congratulations to all the award recipients as they begin…