From the project announcement: The new module ‘Stained Glass in Context‘, created within the ‘Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi‘ (CVMA), is the first to offer an art historical introduction to the history of exemplary churches with important stained glass, including an interactive presentation of the windows. The CVMA plays an exceptional role in medieval research: the…
The Seminar Series in Digital and Public Humanities is organized by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice The seminars will be held online as virtual events. Link for zoom subscription: https://unive.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUofu-ppjwvGd3BlvJLj6WZIOmyQYDoOzuM 11 November 2020, h 17:00 Sarah May Swansea University Infrastructure, Skills, Voice: Digital Participation Beyond Access in Post-Industrial…
From The Art Newspaper Blog: Before Google Street View, there was Ed Ruscha. In 1966, the Los Angeles artist first drove along the Sunset Strip with a motorised camera mounted to the back of his truck, using it to photograph the entire street in a manner that uncannily predicted today’s online mapping technology. He compiled…
Digital collections in libraries are vast—and growing, as the Library of Congress continues to digitize cultural heritage materials and acquire new born digital collections. At the same time, the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence has grown exponentially. Those at LC Labs explore how technology can help fulfill the Library of Congress’s vision that…
The Metropole, The Official Blog of the Urban History Association, has announced it’s graduate student blogging contest. The contest will open on July 1 and will close on August 15. Entries must be submitted to themetropole@urbanhistory.org. Posts will run on the blog in August and September, and we will announce the winners in October. Finalists…
Celia Luterbacher, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has published, “How digital humanities can help in a pandemic,” an article discussing how employing digital humanities helps engage the community and reveal how people understand data. h/t IHC