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Are you interested in learning how to use, work with, and even create IIIF manifests and images? Join a new DH group on February 3, 6:00-7:00 pm (online). No prior knowledge required. We will share links and demos for anyone interested in IIIF projects. Practice is a priority in the interests of this informal group, in a Rutgers digital-oriented community. Organized by Ben Bakelaar (bakelaar AT rutgers.edu) and Caterina Agostini (caterina.agostini AT rutgers.edu). Register in advance for this meeting: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwoceusqD4uH9GVibU3b_OOz2QRS2phjVBU After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Image source: Marii Nyrop, “Static IIIF Annotations.”Read More →

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In the Spring semester, we had unexpected situations, quick changes, and we adapted to new circumstances. Have you found yourself chatting with colleagues about what is most effective in working remotely? Did you feel that some classroom activities and functionalities could not fully transfer online, or not quite the way you wanted that transition to be? Have you thought it might be a good time to see how digital humanities tools can be used in your teaching practice? One of the first, noticeable differences is that we are working from home. So, if we are used to presenting new topics in a classroom, talking toRead More →

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The New Brunswick Libraries are seeking to hire a Digital Humanities Graduate Research Specialist to join their cohort of graduate specialists providing support to researchers in advanced digital research topics and methods next semester. See the job description for details on how to apply.Read More →

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Digital Humanities Seed Grants: Call for Proposals Deadline: March 1, 2018 Award: up to $2,000 (maximum) Funding/Project Period: 2018-2019   The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) invites proposals for seed grants to support digital humanities projects in research, teaching, and public outreach, in any humanistic or related discipline of the university. Digital Humanities may be defined as the application or study of computing technologies to enhance our understanding of humanistic fields of inquiry. 1 This funding cycle will be for projects conducted during the subsequent 12 months (i.e. April 1, 2018 – March 30, 2019). Rutgers DHI seed grants are designed to foster collaborative projectsRead More →

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The interactive topic model for the fortieth anniversary edition of Signs, Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades, is now publicly available in RUcore, the Rutgers University Community Repository. Users may download the entire project (topic model data and browser software) or selectively download either the data or the software. Thanks to the project creators, Andrew Goldstone, Susana Galán, C. Laura Lovin, Andrew Mazzaschi, and Lindsey Whitmore, and to Ron Jantz and Kayo Denda of the Rutgers University Libraries, this project is now archived for posterity and downloadable by anyone interested in exploring, reusing or adapting this rich artifact of feminist scholarship. Goldstone, Andrew, Susana Galán, C. Laura Lovin, Andrew Mazzaschi,Read More →