Digital Humanities at Berkeley is pleased to announce the Crowdsourcing and the Academy symposium is accepting proposals through August 16, 2015. Though crowdsourcing is commonly associated with citizen science, the digital humanities are rich with examples of crowdsourcing projects. The Transcribe Bentham project, which began in 2010, serves as an early example of crowdsourcing efforts in DH.
Over the 2014-2015 year, I was a historian in an engineering school. As a postdoc at the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at UC Berkeley, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Professor Lee Fleming and his team on using a world-leading database of patent data to develop data visualizations for better understanding the history of technology.
The Humanities Intensive Teaching and Learning (HILT) Institute will be held July 27-31, 2015 on the campus of the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Course offerings include:
Please join UC Berkeley Digital Humanists and Digital Humanities librarians from the RBMS conference for a "DH Picnic"
Thursday June 25, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm, Memorial Glade
Kathryn Stine is Senior Digital Curator the History of Art Department’s Visual Resources Center. In this guest post, she describes the VRC’s current collaboration with DH Fellow and Associate Professor or Art History, Elizabeth Honig.
Digital Humanities Fellow Nick Adams has announced a partnership with Hypothes.is and Crowdcrafting, to convert his Text Thresher prototype into an open source Annotator Content Analysis (ACA) module that can be integrated into other platforms.