The Scholars’ Lab is pleased to announce the initial release of a PHP library implementing BagIt 0.96. BagIt is a specification from the Library of Congress for bundling and transmitting multiple files along with their meta-data. You can check out the project page at http://github.com/scholarslab/BagItPHP/. Our work on BagItPHP stems from the open source “Omeka…. More.
project launch: “Spatial Humanities!”
Over the past two years, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library has hosted an Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of “Spatial Humanities,” a community-driven resource for place-based digital scholarship: http://spatial.scholarslab.org/ This site responds to needs…. More.
Scholars’ Lab becomes Laboratory for Digital Byzantine Sigillography
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library is proud to announce a change in name and concentration. Effective April 1st, the SLab (which has hitherto supported work in GIS, qualitatitive and quantitative analysis, and interpretive and textual scholarship in the humanities and social…. More.
Welcoming our 2011/12 Graduate Fellows
The Scholars’ Lab is pleased to welcome our 2011/12 cohort of Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities: Gabriel Hankins from the Department of English, Randi Lewis from the Corcoran Department of History, and Edward Triplett from the McIntire Department of Art. Gabriel’s fellowship project will explore global modernisms by “modeling the network of textual relationships between…. More.
Welcoming Jeremy Boggs!
We’re thrilled to announce that Jeremy Boggs will be joining the Scholars’ Lab and the staff of UVa Library’s Digital Research & Scholarship department this June, in the role of Humanities Design Architect. Jeremy comes to us from the wonderful Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University, where he serves as…. More.
Unsworth to speak at UVa
The UVa Digital Humanities Speaker Series presents: John Unsworth on “Idiosyncrasy at Scale: Data Curation in the Humanities” Friday, March 25 3:00pm (reception follows) South Lawn Auditorium (NAU 101) This talk is co-sponsored by IATH, SHANTI, and the Scholars’ Lab Abstract: Unsworth will argue that, in the past, the humanities have been characterized by data…. More.
Welcoming Eric Rochester!
The Scholars’ Lab is very pleased to welcome Dr. Eric Rochester as the new Senior Developer on our R&D team! Eric is an accomplished computational linguist and digital humanities scholar and developer. His past work includes appointments with the Oxford University Press and Georgia’s Linguistic Atlas projects, as well as consultancies and programming positions at…. More.
Are you our new Head of Outreach & Consulting?
We’re excited to announce a fantastic job opportunity: a faculty-level position at the University of Virginia Library with responsibility for running public services in our growing and well-respected Scholars’ Lab. Head of Outreach and Consulting Are you an excellent and enthusiastic communicator with a strong background in technological approaches to humanities and social science scholarship?…. More.
Scholars’ Lab and CHNM Partner on “Omeka + Neatline”
The Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library and the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University are pleased to announce a collaborative “Omeka + Neatline” initiative, supported by $665,248 in funding from the Library of Congress. The Omeka + Neatline project’s goal is to enable scholars, students, and library…. More.
Are you our new Web Applications Specialist?
Are you an enthusiastic Web developer with an interest in the humanities or cultural heritage? UVa Library seeks a Web Applications Specialist to help develop software in our internationally-recognized Scholars’ Lab. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, eager to work collaboratively, and stays involved with the latest Web and digital humanities technologies. We’re seeking someone passionate…. More.